Reading Time: 2 minutes The old saying “too much of a good thing” doesn’t seem to apply to Alberta’s beef-packing companies. The Feb. 11th announcement that XL Foods (a Nilsson Bros. company) will receive $1.6 million in Growing Forward/ALMA funding over the next two years to increase the value-added production capacity of their Lakeside, Brooks plant follows hot on […] Read more
No Money For Producer-Owned Plants, But Subsidies For Big Ones
Direct Marketing — An Alternative Solution To The Cattle Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I suggest we have been suckered into export dependency and are now trapped on a treadmill of keeping more cattle to make up for declining margins.” Many have been wondering whether there is a future for beef production in Canada. We are continually told that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that […] Read more
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