Insights and Stories on Beef

Peru, Taiwan, Belarus ban Canadian beef over BSE case

Feb. 23, 2015 at 4:17 pm CST

Reuters — Three more countries have blocked imports of Canadian beef or beef products, following Canada’s discovery of BSE earlier this month, its first in four years. Taiwan, Peru and Belarus have imposed trade restrictions on beef and/or beef products, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Monday in an […]

Ireland says China agrees to lift ban on Irish beef

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:18 pm CST

By Reuters

West Coast port impasse beefs up U.S. meat stockpile

Feb. 19, 2015 at 5:06 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Brazil exported 3.3 per cent more beef in 2014, industry says

Jan. 8, 2015 at 5:39 pm CST

By Reuters

New company set up to deliver BIXS livestock data system

Dec. 8, 2014 at 6:47 pm CST

By Lee Hart

Shuttered Que. beef plant’s equipment sold

Dec. 5, 2014 at 8:01 pm CST

The chance of a rescue for Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant has passed, now that the facility’s equipment has been sold off piecemeal at auction. Provincial investment financing agency Investissement Quebec and other creditors still own the Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region. But the plant’s receivers sold […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. to appeal latest WTO loss on COOL

Nov. 28, 2014 at 2:44 pm CST

Canada will have to wait up to three more months before it can impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods over Washington’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat from imported livestock. The U.S. government on Friday filed a notice of appeal against the latest ruling by a World Trade Organization […]

By Staff

Chance remains for Que. beef plant before asset sale

Oct. 10, 2014 at 7:26 pm CDT

The equipment at Quebec’s now-shuttered Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant goes to auction in about eight weeks — but until then, its owners will entertain offers from buyers interested in rescuing the plant. The Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region, are still owned by provincial investment […]