Insights and Stories on Livestock

Agricore CEO, VP join Ridley board

Oct. 2, 2007 at 3:21 pm CDT

Having dealt himself out of a job by merging his company into Viterra, Brian Hayward is now chairman of Winnipeg feed maker Ridley, Inc. Hayward, until June this year, had been the chief executive officer of Canada’s largest grain handler, Winnipeg-based Agricore United, but stepped down after helping coax Saskatchewan […]

No cross-border travel for Sask. birds

Oct. 2, 2007 at 12:48 am CDT

By FBC staff

Smucker buys Carnation milk brand

Oct. 1, 2007 at 5:26 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Avian influenza: statement from Minister of Agriculture

Sep. 28, 2007 at 1:00 pm CDT

By hon-gerry-ritz

Federal government announces $1.1 million in aquaculture funding

Sep. 27, 2007 at 3:18 pm CDT

Nova Scotia announces funding for Maritime Beef Testing Station

Sep. 27, 2007 at 3:09 pm CDT

The Nova Scotia government is providing its $25,000 share of funding to the Maritime Beef Testing Station in Nappan, Cumberland Co., Agriculture Minister Brooke Taylor announced today, Sept. 27. “We are providing the beef testing station with this funding to help them through this year,” said Mr. Taylor. “However, they […]

Avian influenza detected in Saskatchewan

Sep. 27, 2007 at 1:22 pm CDT

Highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza has been detected in a commercial poultry operation in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced today. This virus is not the same as the strain circulating in Asia, Africa and Europe, which has been associated with human illness. H7N3 is not normally associated […]

By CFIA release

Pork council joins call for higher hog prices

Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm CDT

The Canadian Pork Council yesterday joined six other national hog farmer groups in calling for “immediate lifts” in farmer returns and wholesale and retail pork prices. Speaking from the World Pork Conference in Nanjing, China, the CPC and farmer groups from Britain, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa […]

By FBC staff

Packers’ group names Canadian spokesman

Sep. 26, 2007 at 12:43 pm CDT

Robert de Valk, an Ottawa-based consultant on food regulatory issues, is the new Canadian government affairs director for the North American Meat Processors Association (NAMP). The group, which represents North American meat processors and their associates from offices in Reston, Va. (near Washington, D.C.) and in Ottawa, said in a […]

By FBC staff

Beef herd vaccinated for E. coli

Sep. 25, 2007 at 5:52 pm CDT

Top Meadow Farms, a commercial beef operation in Ontario and Saskatchewan, has laid claim to the title of the world’s first beef producer to vaccinate cattle against E. coli 0157:H7. Bioniche Life Sciences, the Ontario manufacturer of the vaccine, said in late August it had already sold its first order, […]

By FBC staff