Insights and Stories on Livestock

Hog outlook: Industry crisis may spur decline

Dec. 28, 2007 at 3:28 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The Canadian hog industry may lose some of its best producers if the crisis now facing the industry continues, according to Clare Schlegel, president of the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) in Ottawa. In two to three years’ time, Schlegel said, he anticipates the Canadian hog industry […]

Maple Leaf Foods to retain Rothsay rendering

Dec. 21, 2007 at 11:41 am CST

Saskatchewan program to support hog and cattle producers

Dec. 21, 2007 at 11:21 am CST

Quebec offers $17.5M for PMWS-affected hog farms

Dec. 20, 2007 at 4:31 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ottawa to invest $5M in Bioniche

Dec. 20, 2007 at 3:22 pm CST

By FBC staff

Interest deferral extended on CAIS overpayments

Dec. 20, 2007 at 2:59 pm CST

The federal and provincial governments plan to defer collection of interest on CAIS overpayments until Dec. 31, 2008 as part of their support plan for the livestock sector. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced the measure Wednesday as one of a list of alterations to help livestock producers quicker access to […]

By FBC staff

Aleutian disease spreads to Nfld. wild mink

Dec. 19, 2007 at 6:06 pm CST

Commercial mink farmers in Newfoundland are warned to keep wild mink off their farms now that Aleutian disease has arrived in the wild population. The provincial natural resources department announced Wednesday that eight of 18 wild animals trapped and tested between Marysvale and Holyrood in the Conception Bay area have […]

By FBC staff

Sask. poultry farmers press for flu cleanup funds

Dec. 19, 2007 at 12:53 pm CST

The cost burden for cleaning up poultry farms after outbreaks of avian flu shouldn’t be left to affected farmers alone, Saskatchewan’s poultry groups said Tuesday. The poultry groups, pooling their resources under the banner of the Saskatchewan Poultry Industry Emergency Management Team (SPIEMT), said Tuesday that they had raised $100,000 […]

By FBC staff

Ont. to invest $10M in E. coli vaccine maker

Dec. 18, 2007 at 5:33 pm CST

Ontario’s provincial government will make a $10 million investment in Bioniche Life Sciences’ expansion plans for commercial-scale production of its E. coli vaccine for cattle. The company owns the rights to worldwide commercialization of the vaccine, which Bioniche said can prevent E. coli O157:H7 from colonizing in cattle’s digestive systems […]

By FBC staff

P.E.I. cattlemen name new commodity board

Dec. 18, 2007 at 2:26 pm CST

Six Prince Edward Island cattlemen have been named by acclamation to sit on the province’s new cattle commodity board. The Prince Edward Island Cattle Producers Board, created as a commodity board in January this year, was initially led by the directors of the P.E.I. Cattlemen’s Association on the date that […]

By FBC staff