Livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes Are your cattle causing a greenhouse gas problem? There’s a vaccine for that. Well, maybe. One of the standouts at the recent Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) conference in Banff was the buzz around work led by Dr. Graeme Attwood of AgResearch in New Zealand. Attwood’s team, part of New Zealand’s Pastoral Greenhouse Gas […] Read more
Research Opens New Doors To Slash Cattle Methane
Industrial Milk Prices Up
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian dairy farmers can expect about a 1.5 per cent increase in per-hectolitre revenue from industrial milk starting Feb. 1. Support prices are those at which the CDC buys and sells butter and skim milk powder to balance seasonal demand changes on the domestic market. The skim milk powder support price will rise 1.5 per […] Read more
CCIA Call Centre Hours Changed
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) has adjusted call centre customer service hours effective Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 due to a low volume of calls. The new call centre hours will be Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Customer support for the Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS) can be […] Read more
Horses 101: A Guide To Safer Riding
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you want to get along better with horses, you have to understand their anatomy and history. That’s the bottom line from a “Horses 101” seminar conducted by Muffy Knox, an educator who trains both people and horses. Her history lesson stretched back to the ancestors of modern horses, which were just 14 inches tall […] Read more
Feds back Moose Jaw pork plant renovations
The federal government will loan over $1.7 million to refurbish and re-equip a Moose Jaw, Sask. hog processing plant that’s sat idle since 2006. Richmond, B.C.-based meat firm Donald’s Fine Foods and its specialty pork packing arm, Britco Pork of Langley, B.C., signed a deal this summer to buy the former Moose Jaw Pork Packers […] Read more
Man. bird flu quarantine widens, hatchery destocked
Another farm in Manitoba’s southern Interlake region has been added to a list of quarantined properties following the appearance of low-grade avian flu on a neighbouring turkey farm. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Thursday evening it had put a quarantine in place on a fourth poultry farm that had “contact” with an H5N2 avian […] Read more
Alta. paperwork filed toward national cattle levy
Regulatory amendments filed Tuesday in Alberta are the last step to restore a $1 non-refundable national beef levy to support national-level market development, promotion and research work. The filing of these last amendments follows a memorandum of agreement signed by Alberta Beef Producers and Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association in September, with the support of provincial […] Read more
Pigeon King arrested, charged with fraud
Fraud- and bankruptcy-related charges have been laid in Kitchener, Ont. against the province’s self-styled Pigeon King. Arlan Galbraith, 62, turned himself in to Waterloo Regional Police on Wednesday in Kitchener, where according to police he was held for a bail hearing at Provincial Court and then released until his next court date Jan. 25. Galbraith, […] Read more
Beef exporters take European trade with grain of salt
(Commodity News Service Canada) — An agreement recently announced between the Canadian government and the European Union (EU) that will allow duty-free access to Europe for some Canadian beef is encouraging news to Canadian beef exporters, but they said actual volumes will fall well short of that quota. The 20,000 tonnes of duty-free quota granted […] Read more
Man. lays regulatory path for livestock review powers
The Manitoba government plans to amend its Planning Act to allow itself to set up a process by which it will review applications for large-scale livestock production. The province has set up an approval path for large-scale livestock operations in which a producer’s municipality would retain authority over land-use issues, but the environmental approval rests […] Read more
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