Livestock
A landmark domed ag display building, familiar to those who attend Manitoba Ag Days or the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon, is $500,000 in public funds closer to restoration. Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger pledged the funding Thursday while attending the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair at Brandon’s Keystone Centre. The domed building, a.k.a “Display Building […] Read more
Man. backs restoration for farm fair landmark
U.S. DDGS demand rising in Canada
A British Columbia-based agricultural commodity trader has purchased a loading site in Montana to facilitate imports of a special livestock feed ingredient into Canada. Rycom Trading Ltd. has acquired a transloading facility in Sunburst, Montana to give Canadian livestock producers greater access to dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS), a byproduct of ethanol production. The […] Read more
B.C. to update surface rights dispute mechanisms
Proposed changes to British Columbia’s legislation governing oil and gas activities on third parties’ land are seen as providing “more balanced and effective” dispute resolution. Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom on Monday introduced amendments to the province’s Oil and Gas Activities Act and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Act. The changes laid out in the province’s […] Read more
Sask. farmer group urges resolution at XL
Saskatchewan’s general farm group is urging beef firm Nilsson Bros. and its unionized workers at the province’s only federally inspected beef plant to get back to the bargaining table. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) on Monday urged the two sides to “resolve their differences and enable the re-opening” of the XL Beef slaughter […] Read more
Saputo to shut Brampton dairy processing plant
Dairy giant Saputo plans to close its milk and cream processing plant at Brampton, Ont. by the end of October and shift its production to its other facilities in the province. Montreal-based Saputo also said Tuesday it plans to gradually consolidate all its distribution for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) into one centre at Vaughan, […] Read more
Feds pledge $1M for N.S. farm’s learning centre
A learning centre for a working farm museum in western Nova Scotia is $1 million in public funding closer to construction, the federal government announced Friday. Funding will run through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s (ACOA) Innovative Communities Fund for the Ross Farm Museum project at New Ross, about 85 km west of Halifax. Pending […] Read more
Klassen: Feeder cattle prices slowly climbing
March 29 — Improving feedlot margins and a slight dip in the Canadian dollar caused feeder cattle prices to ratchet higher last week. Slaughter cattle prices reached yearly highs and we are seeing this strength spill over into the feeder cattle complex. Supplies are still readily available and some cow/calf producers are liquidating cattle now […] Read more
Cover-All granted creditor protection
A well-known Saskatoon-based manufacturer of pre-engineered, fabric-covered shelters used for livestock barns and crop storage has been granted creditor protection. Cover-All Building Systems was approved for creditor protection last Wednesday (March 24) in Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary. The company, which currently bills itself as the largest supplier of pre-engineered membrane building systems in […] Read more
CPIP: Protecting The Downside For Feeders
Reading Time: 3 minutes q&a CPIP strategy Answering the following questions could reveal how you deal with uncertainty in the fed cattle market and how CP IP can fit with your cattle-feeding strategies. A re you so emotionally attached to an action that you do not realize it requires near perfect conditions for success? _____Yes _____No When you implement […] Read more
China To Lift Ban On U. S. Pork
Reading Time: < 1 minute China will again allow imports of U. S. pork, lifting a ban that lasted almost a year, and shipments will resume as soon as trade officials finalize export documents, U. S. agriculture and trade officials said May 18. The move will open what U. S. meat exporters have described as being their second-largest market for […] Read more
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