Insights and Stories on Livestock

B.C. vets funded to review foreign credentials

Oct. 29, 2007 at 5:39 pm CDT

British Columbia’s veterinary medical association will get funding to improve how it assesses credentials and approves licenses, in order to import new veterinarians from other countries. The province on Monday announced about $497,000 for 17 professional regulatory bodies to improve those assessments and licensing practices, after making the offer to […]

Alta. farmers beat EFP uptake goal

Oct. 29, 2007 at 5:17 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ranchers Beef investigation leads to B.C. recall

Oct. 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CFIA suspects link in E. coli cases nationwide

Oct. 27, 2007 at 1:53 am CDT

By FBC staff

Maple Leaf improves Q3 in mid-restructuring

Oct. 26, 2007 at 12:49 am CDT

By FBC staff

Hog inventories continue falling: StatsCan

Oct. 26, 2007 at 12:03 am CDT

Inventories of hogs in Canada fell for the second quarter in a row on softening slaughter prices and escalating feed costs, even while international demand for Canadian hogs and pork remains high, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. Canada had 14.4 million hogs on farms as of October 1, down 3.1 per […]

By FBC staff

Quebec sees net farm income “stability” in ’07

Oct. 25, 2007 at 11:35 pm CDT

Farmers in Quebec can expect to end 2007 with total net farm income in the neighbourhood of $425 million, showing a “relative stability” across the ag sector overall, according to a new economic report from the provincial farm lender. L’Agroindicateur, an index released annually by La Financiere agricole based on […]

By FBC staff

Breeders send biggest post-BSE export boatload

Oct. 24, 2007 at 11:50 am CDT

A boatload of 2,217 Canadian purebred Angus, Holstein and Hereford cattle left for Russia Tuesday as part of Canada’s biggest export of breeding stock since the discovery of BSE in Alberta in 2003. The cattle were shipped from Quebec’s Port de Becancour en route to Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, […]

By FBC staff

Ont. chicken farmers name new GM

Oct. 23, 2007 at 3:18 pm CDT

Bill Laidlaw has been named the new general manager for the Chicken Farmers of Ontario. Laidlaw has worked in not-for-profit and association management since 2000, most recently as executive director of The Biotechnology Initiative and the Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre. He also previously worked as the CEO for St. […]

By FBC staff

Atlantic Beef may get bailout: CBC

Oct. 22, 2007 at 11:14 pm CDT

The cash-losing Atlantic Beef Products plant on Prince Edward Island may get up to $11 million in federal and provincial funds to keep running, according to a CBC News report Friday. The report said an actual deal may be two weeks away but quoted unnamed sources as saying the federal […]

By FBC staff