Livestock
A Quebec firm making livestock feed ingredients from bakery byproducts will get public funding to renovate a Peterborough, Ont. feed mill for a new processing plant. The Ontario ministry of economic development and trade on Friday pledged over $217,000 for Farines SPB Meal of Boucherville, Que. toward the company’s $1.4 million retrofit at Peterborough. The […] Read more
Feed ingredient firm to process Ont. baking leftovers
Tail-end of hog transition funds to be distributed
Funds left over from the federal government’s hog farm transition program (HFTP) are now on their way to at least some of the producers who didn’t make the cut during the program’s fourth tender. The HFTP, budgeted for $75 million when it was set up in late 2009, was meant to help eligible producers exit […] Read more
B.C. backs beef cattle market development work
Among the British Columbia government’s responses to the recommendations of its ranching task force is a pledge for $2 million in domestic and export market development support for the province’s beef cattle sector. The $2 million in new funding, pledged last week by provincial Ag Minister Steve Thomson, will help the cattle industry “strategically invest […] Read more
WSPA report rips animal handling rules, enforcement
Criticizing Canada’s “lax enforcement and ineffective legislation” on livestock transport, an influential animal welfare group is calling for changes in both the legislation and its oversight. The British-based World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), which maintains offices in Toronto and other centres worldwide, on Wednesday released a report titled Curb the Cruelty, which […] Read more
Quebec ag minister back at work
Claude Bechard has returned to work as Quebec’s minister of agriculture, food and fisheries while continuing treatments for pancreatic cancer, La terre de chez nous reports. The Quebec farm journal reported Tuesday on its website that a “visibly thinner and frail” Bechard had officially resumed his duties that day. Revenue Minister Robert Dutil had handled […] Read more
Pork product exports expected to decline
(Resource News International) — The amount of pork products exported from Canada is expected to decline come calendar year 2011, according to an official with the Canadian Pork Council. “We’ve had about four or five shocks to our industry in the last five years (such as) the high Canadian dollar, for a while high feed […] Read more
Klassen: Swampy feedlot conditions limit feeder demand
Feeder cattle prices were $2 to $5 lower last week as excessive rains plagued most of Western Canada. Feedlots are contending with horrible pen conditions along with major inefficiencies in weight gains as cattle are up to their waists in manure. Lower prices did little to spur on buying enthusiasm as potential for higher death […] Read more
Pasture recovery plan launched for Alta., Sask.
Ranchers in areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan hit by drought in 2008 and 2009 may be able to get AgriRecovery funding this year to buy feed for breeding stock and buy time for their pastures to recover. The federal, Alberta and Saskatchewan governments on Monday announced up to $114 million for the 2010 Pasture Recovery […] Read more
Federal heritage ministry backs 4-H exchanges
Canadian Heritage has committed to a multi-year supplement of the national 4-H program’s federal funding package in support of two nationwide networking events. The ministry on Friday pledged over $1 million over three years to help cover the costs of two 4-H projects, 4-H Youth Exchanges Canada and the National 4-H Citizenship Seminar. The two […] Read more
Bar-coded cattle ID tags de-listed July 1
Any bar-coded dangle tags still hanging from Canadian cattle’s ears will officially become plastic jewelry effective July 1. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which was previously expected to de-list bar code tags as of Jan. 1, 2010, said Friday that the bar code tags will be de-listed July 1 in favour of radio frequency identification […] Read more
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