Insights and Stories on Livestock

USDA tightens testing on Canadian meat

Nov. 5, 2007 at 12:53 am CST

Citing concerns over testing practices at the ill-fated Rancher’s Beef plant near Calgary, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Saturday that it will increase testing for E. coli O157:H7, listeria and salmonella on imports of meat and poultry from Canada, starting this week. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) […]

Summer’s worth of Rancher’s Beef recalled

Nov. 2, 2007 at 11:40 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.B. adds programs for hog farmers

Nov. 2, 2007 at 6:09 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Feed maker Ridley posts improved Q1

Nov. 2, 2007 at 5:06 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Meat industry urges “caution” on cancer report

Nov. 2, 2007 at 1:27 am CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. restrictions lifted on poultry transit

Oct. 31, 2007 at 11:32 pm CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has lifted most of the restrictions on movement of poultry in and through Saskatchewan after testing found no more cases of avian influenza H7N3 in the province. The highly pathogenic strain of bird flu killed some animals on a poultry farm in the Regina Beach […]

By FBC staff

Yukon to draft tick control plan for elk

Oct. 31, 2007 at 2:15 pm CDT

Elk farmers in the Yukon can expect to be consulted on a proposal to use medicated feed for tick control in the wild elk population. Territory Environment Minister Dennis Fentie said Tuesday that the government plans a three-phase approach to manage and remove the winter tick infestation that’s hit wild […]

By FBC staff

Cash advances planned for N.S. hog farmers

Oct. 30, 2007 at 5:05 pm CDT

Hog farmers in Nova Scotia will get immediate payments through the Targeted Advance Payment program to help deal with “financial difficulties” in the hog sector, Ag Minister Brooke Taylor announced Tuesday. Eligible farmers will be contacted soon and given information on how much of an advance they may be eligible […]

By FBC staff

McGuinty re-appoints farm cabinet

Oct. 30, 2007 at 2:29 pm CDT

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has re-appointed the three newly re-elected MPPs in charge of the province’s farm and rural portfolios back to Cabinet. Hastings-Frontenac Lennox MPP Leona Dombrowsky, who represents the Napanee and Belleville area, was returned Tuesday as minister for agriculture, food and rural affairs, a post she’s held […]

By FBC staff

Quebec hog farmers may get early advance

Oct. 29, 2007 at 6:16 pm CDT

Quebec’s provincial farm finance agency is considering an early advance on the insurance program advances it provides to hog farmers. In a release Friday, La Financiere agricole said that after meeting with the hog farmers’ association, la Federation des producteurs de porcs, and taking into account the current situation in […]

By FBC staff