Insights and Stories on Livestock

Ontario reelects ag minister, critics

Oct. 10, 2007 at 11:54 pm CDT

Election night in Ontario proved to be a good Wednesday night for provincial politicians with a hand in the agriculture or rural portfolios. Voters returned Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals for a second majority government, with the party elected in 71 of 107 ridings according to Elections Ontario at this writing. The […]

Menu Foods restructures as costs pile up

Oct. 10, 2007 at 6:30 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.B. launches “buy local” initiative

Oct. 10, 2007 at 5:54 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.L. farm minister, critic reelected

Oct. 9, 2007 at 11:32 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Man. beef levy to back Natural Prairie plant

Oct. 9, 2007 at 3:50 pm CDT

By FBC staff

U.S. politicians push to block “Rule 2” for cattle

Oct. 7, 2007 at 5:16 pm CDT

In what some observers call a long-shot measure to stop older Canadian cattle from being exported to the U.S., lawmakers have launched “resolutions of disapproval” in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. U.S. agriculture officials on Sept. 18 published what Canadian cattle organizations have called “Rule 2,” to […]

By FBC staff

Quebec wraps up public hearings on farming

Oct. 5, 2007 at 5:32 pm CDT

Quebec’s Commission on the future of agriculture and agri-food in the province has wrapped up over a year of hearings across the province, the government announced today. Now comes the next big step: compiling all they’ve heard into recommendations for the provincial government in a report due in January. Since […]

By FBC staff

USDA pans Ont. firm’s E. coli vaccine

Oct. 5, 2007 at 2:10 pm CDT

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s review of an Ontario firm’s vaccine to reduce E. coli 0157:H7 in cattle doesn’t support a license for the product at this time, the manufacturer said today. Bioniche Life Sciences of Belleville, Ont., said it plans to submit more statistical analyses and rationale to USDA […]

By FBC staff

Alta. hog farmers propose recovery plan

Oct. 4, 2007 at 9:11 pm CDT

Recovery for Alberta’s struggling hog farmers will involve tax-funded offsets for the “vastly inflated” cost of feed grains and a “new business relationship” with the province’s biggest packer, according to the province’s hog farmer organization. “In order to keep our largest processor (the Olymel pork plant at Red Deer) in […]

By FBC staff

Sask. avian flu cull complete

Oct. 4, 2007 at 12:06 pm CDT

The culling is finished on a Regina Beach, Sask. poultry farm where a highly-pathogenic strain of avian influenza broke out among birds, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said yesterday. With the farm now completely depopulated of birds, next must come the cleaning and disinfection of all barns, vehicles, equipment and […]

By FBC staff