Insights and Stories on Livestock

Lethbridge biogas power plant funded

Dec. 4, 2007 at 3:30 pm CST

A biogas processing facility planned near Lethbridge will use local livestock manure and food processing waste as feedstock to generate electricity, heat and methane gas, with $1.5 million in provincial start-up funding. The grant to ECB Enviro North America from the Alberta government’s biorefining commercialization and market development program and […]

Ont. to fund farm water protection

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:17 am CST

By FBC staff

Sask. hog plant plan enters second phase

Dec. 3, 2007 at 4:33 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Half of Man. farmland committed to EFPs

Nov. 30, 2007 at 5:24 pm CST

By FBC staff

Man. gets value chain funding

Nov. 30, 2007 at 5:18 pm CST

By FBC staff

Pork council upset by EU subsidies

Nov. 30, 2007 at 5:07 pm CST

The Canadian Pork Council (CPC) is crying foul over a European Union decision to introduce export refunds on pork and pork products. The export subsidy rate can reach as much as C75 cents per kilogram and are applicable for pork shipped to all export destinations, the CPC says. “The EU […]

By FBC staff

N.S. offers new award for ag innovation

Nov. 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm CST

Nova Scotia’s provincial government has up to $10,000 for one farmer who proposes a new way to handle business challenges on his or her farm. The province’s new Agri-Food Innovation Award, funded through the “renewal” pillar of the federal-provincial Agricultural Policy Framework (APF), is to go toward the planning and […]

By FBC staff

Quebec dials back fertilizer regulations

Nov. 29, 2007 at 12:46 am CST

The Quebec government has slightly loosened its rules banning the spreading of all materials containing dead ruminants as fertilizer. Environment Minister Line Beauchamp announced on Wednesday that the province has amended its farm regulations to take into account the new federal government controls on specified risk materials (or SRMs, the […]

By FBC staff

Meat testing at U.S. border back to normal

Nov. 28, 2007 at 3:10 pm CST

The regime for U.S. government inpsections on imports of Canadian meat will be back to normal Wednesday after audits found no safety risk to the U.S. meat-eating public, U.S. officials announced Tuesday. In a letter to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) meat programs division, dated Tuesday, U.S. Department of […]

By FBC staff

Documentation sought for rare Newfoundland Ponies

Nov. 27, 2007 at 4:45 pm CST

The Newfoundland Pony Society is looking to compile an inventory of historical records for the province’s only heritage animal. The group, which held its annual meeting Sunday, got $6,000 in provincial funding this year to get the Newfoundland Pony inventory project off the ground, the Newfoundland and Labrador government noted […]

By FBC staff