Insights and Stories on Livestock

Oct. 12, 2007 at 11:03 pm CDT

Ontario dairy farmer John Core, the CEO of the Canadian Dairy Commission since 2002, has been re-appointed to the post for another year by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Core served as both CEO and chairman of the commission from 2002 until the two positions were split in April this year. […]

By FBC staff

Oct. 12, 2007 at 1:33 pm CDT

Manitoba hog producer Hytek Ltd. has opted to buy rather than build new to get into the pork packing business. The company, based at La Broquerie in southeastern Manitoba, announced late Thursday that it will buy the Springhill Farms pork plant at Neepawa, about 50 miles northeast of Brandon, for […]

By FBC staff

Oct. 12, 2007 at 12:52 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — High feed grain prices are causing some concern for western Canadian hog producers, who are losing money and sending more animals to the U.S. to be fed as a result. “Feed grain costs are the highest they’ve ever been,” said Neil Ketilson, general manager of Sask […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oct. 11, 2007 at 6:37 pm CDT

Amendments that would block farmers from splitting one large livestock operation into smaller ones to skirt the local hearing process are back on the table in the Manitoba legislature. The provincial government had sought last spring to close what it describes as a loophole in the Planning Act, but its […]

By FBC staff

Oct. 11, 2007 at 4:28 pm CDT

All wells in British Columbia must have a secure cap in place by the end of this month to meet the province’s new ground water protection regulation, the government warned in a bulletin today. And the regulation, which will apply to all existing wells and those under construction, doesn’t allow […]

By FBC staff