Insights and Stories on Guelph

Ontario calls off final intake for beef set-aside

Jan. 20, 2021 at 2:48 am CST

Ontario has called off the last intake for its federal/provincial beef cattle set-aside program. The Beef Emergency Feed Maintenance Initiative, an AgriRecovery program launched after the temporary shutdown of Cargill’s beef slaughter plant at Guelph, was to have its “final potential intake week” opening Monday (Jan. 18), for cattle to […]

Ontario’s beef set-aside AgriRecovery plan underway

Dec. 22, 2020 at 10:06 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Guelph beef plant idled against COVID-19 outbreak

Dec. 17, 2020 at 4:29 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

COVID-19 lands at another Cargill meat plant

Aug. 14, 2020 at 10:23 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Beef Farmers of Ontario ask for curb on cull sales

Apr. 13, 2020 at 10:19 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Canadians to spend more on food in 2020, report predicts

Dec. 4, 2019 at 11:09 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadians will spend two to four per cent more on food in 2020, according to the latest Canada Food Price Report from researchers at Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the University of Guelph. The average family in the country will see its total food bill for groceries […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Sleeman investing to bring back production from U.S.

Mar. 6, 2018 at 8:02 pm CST

Canada’s third-biggest national brewer plans upgrades at its southwestern Ontario plant, with which it plans to bring back some production it now contracts out to a U.S. brewery. Guelph-based Sleeman Breweries, owned since 2006 by Japanese brewer Sapporo, announced Monday it will invest $6.61 million to expand packaging capability, put […]

By Staff

Data mining finds no honeybee colony risk from correct neonic use

Nov. 23, 2017 at 7:43 pm CST

An expedition through published and unpublished studies on neonicotinoid pesticides has led a Guelph research team to find no colony-level risk to honeybees from the seed treatments — if they’re correctly used. The University of Guelph team, led by toxicologist Keith Solomon and adjunct professor Gladys Stephenson, analyzed 64 papers […]

By Staff

Ontario cereals lab filling nationwide demand

Mar. 23, 2017 at 5:19 pm CDT

Grain Farmers of Ontario and SGS Canada took a risk in creating the Grains Analytical Testing Laboratory, as a partnership bringing wheat testing to a province with a comparatively small wheat crop. After eight months, and a first harvest of wheat analytics, the Guelph lab’s manager says they have found […]

By John Greig

Ontario backs feed processing at Cargill beef plant

Feb. 8, 2017 at 7:14 pm CST

Ontario’s provincial government plans to put up over half a million dollars for Cargill to process byproducts from its Guelph beef plant for feed. Provincial Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal on Wednesday announced a $582,000 investment toward Cargill’s installation of a “value-added” processing system converting raw byproduct into a “protein-rich animal […]

By Staff

Insights and Stories on Guelph

Ontario calls off final intake for beef set-aside

Ontario’s beef set-aside AgriRecovery plan underway

Guelph beef plant idled against COVID-19 outbreak

COVID-19 lands at another Cargill meat plant

Beef Farmers of Ontario ask for curb on cull sales

Canadians to spend more on food in 2020, report predicts

Sleeman investing to bring back production from U.S.

Data mining finds no honeybee colony risk from correct neonic use

Ontario cereals lab filling nationwide demand

Ontario backs feed processing at Cargill beef plant

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