Insights and Stories on Livestock

Sep. 12, 2007 at 2:06 pm CDT

P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz said yesterday he’s willing to extend the deadline past the end of September before making a final decision on the province’s future involvement in the Atlantic Beef Products packing plant. The province has been a minority shareholder since 2002 and also built the waste treatment plant […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 7, 2007 at 12:53 pm CDT

Biotech firm Bioniche Life Sciences of Belleville, Ont., plans to use $2 million in Ontario government funding to build up production of a vaccine expected to cut down levels of E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria in cattle. The vaccine, which is “indicated” to reduce the amount of E. coli bacteria cattle […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 7, 2007 at 10:22 am CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) —With the addition of a second shift at Maple Leaf Foods’ hog plant at Brandon, Manitoba on September 4, the company expects a ramp-up in slaughter capacity over the next six to eight weeks, according to an official with Maple Leaf. “The current hog slaughter capacity […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Sep. 5, 2007 at 1:48 pm CDT

Feed manufacturer Ridley Inc. is making another legal bid to halt a proposed class action suit before it can begin, this time appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada. Ridley, along with the federal government, is the targeted defendant in four co-ordinated lawsuits filed by cattlemen in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 4, 2007 at 6:15 pm CDT

Cheques will be in the mail in the next few days to about 30,000 Ontario farmers qualifying for $55 million in funding through that province’s Cost Recognition Top-Up program, the government reported today. The program, first announced June 8 and to be delivered by Agricorp, is a 40 per cent-matching […]

By FBC staff