Livestock

A northwestern Manitoba meat plant has picked up public funding for a new incinerator to destroy higher-risk byproducts from its own slaughterhouse and others in the area. A 60/40 cost-shared contribution of $360,810 was pledged Friday from a federal/provincial specified risk material (SRM) disposal funding program for Berscheid Meats at The Pas, Man. to install […] Read more

The partnership between a livestock producer and butcher in southwestern Ontario’s Elgin County will get provincial funding to expand its workspace and retail space. Farmgate Markets has picked up $95,000 from the province’s Rural Economic Development Program to renovate a former LCBO provincial liquor store building at St. Thomas, south of London. The renovations are […] Read more

Cattle producers’ calls for the federal government to negotiate an out-of-court settlement to class actions filed over the arrival of BSE in the Canadian herd have made it to the House of Commons. Identical petitions from groups of cattle producers were presented Wednesday in the Commons by NDP agriculture critic and B.C. MP Alex Atamanenko, […] Read more

Canadian food processing giant Maple Leaf Foods has laid out its plans to build two new larger-scale facilities and consolidate more of its operations in a “value creation” strategy. The Toronto-based meat processing and baked goods company, Canada’s fifth largest food firm by retail sales, announced a five-year plan late Tuesday that it expects will […] Read more

Funeral services will be held Wednesday in Ottawa for Maurice Foster, the Ontario veterinarian who became the federal Liberals’ agriculture critic during the Mulroney administration. Foster, a Liberal MP from 1968 to 1993, ag critic from 1984 to 1993 and critic for the Canadian Wheat Board from 1987 to 1989, died Saturday in Ottawa at […] Read more

A Quebec pork packer that pled guilty to 27 charges of federal meat inspection violations has been slapped with fines totalling $62,000. Atrahan Transformation, a federally-inspected facility at Yamachiche, about 20 km west of Trois-Rivieres, pled guilty to the charges at a Court of Quebec hearing July 20, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in […] Read more

Alberta’s refundable national checkoff on beef cattle hasn’t had enough time to prove it can work, according to a group that led the charge for the refunds and opposes a new plan to end them. The Western Stock Growers’ Association said in a release Thursday that it’s not in favour of an agreement early this […] Read more

The University of Alberta reports “strong beginning enrolment” in its first year of classes for its new Animal Health degree, with 77 students signed up for the new program. The B.Sc. in Animal Health program is meant to provide students with “a strong foundation to pursue careers that go beyond the field of veterinary medicine […] Read more