Insights and Stories on Livestock

Sep. 19, 2007 at 5:34 pm CDT

A new contract for workers at a Maple Leaf plant in Winnipeg will mean the shifting of 550 jobs to a new ham boning line there, according to the workers’ union. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 working at Maple Leaf’s Lagimodiere Boulevard meat processing […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 19, 2007 at 1:47 pm CDT

A ban imposed by the Chinese government on imports of pork from a number of Canadian and U.S. packers shows the need for international standards for approval of animal health and nutrition products, according to the Canadian Meat Council. Speaking on Farmscape, a pork industry-sponsored news service, CMC executive director […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 19, 2007 at 1:29 pm CDT

The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) Alumni Foundation has launched a $1.25 million endowment campaign to mark the 125th anniversary of the college’s two-year diploma program. OAC currently has about 800 students at four University of Guelph campuses. The campaigners plan to call on over 5,000 OAC diploma grads now living […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 19, 2007 at 12:30 pm CDT

Seeking to calm what one major farm leader has called an “explosive” situation, Quebec Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard today named longtime provincial civil servant Guy Coulombe as his representative for talks with stakeholders in the province’s pork industry. Coulombe is to lead the discussions between the industry’s principal players and […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 18, 2007 at 11:13 am CDT

Landowners in Nova Scotia can soon go online to assess their property’s potential to host wind turbines. Researchers at l’Universite de Moncton and Nova Scotia Community College have set up a wind atlas for Nova Scotia, illustrating how much wind is available in the province and where to find it. […]

By FBC staff