Livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes Investors seeking strong returns in the commodity markets have been pouring money into U. S. cattle futures, sending prices to 15-month highs and boosting February volume 27 percent from a year ago. Open interest, a measure of market liquidity, is at a record high in Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle, and much of that is attributed […] Read more
Investors Develop A Taste For Beef
USDA To Boost Wildlife Habitat
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal government will maximize enrolment in the land-idling Conservation Reserve, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a policy that would reduce U. S. cropland by 1.5 per cent if successful. The amount of land involved, around five million acres, could produce more than 150 million bushels of wheat, 200 million bushels of soybeans or 700 […] Read more
How Terrain Develops Your Horse’s Soundness
Reading Time: 3 minutes DVM Carol Shwetz The horse’s hoof is an incredibly adaptive structure. It changes to meet whatever is being asked of it. As with any animal, environment influences physical expression. So then terrain develops the specific internal structures of a horse hoof, ultimately determining the level of soundness. Factors in a horse’s living environment directly benefit […] Read more
Buy Your Bulls One Chapter At A Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes Perhaps the biggest mistake made at bull sales is the tendency to give in and bid on a bull that was not on one’s list. Beef specialist, ndsu Extension Service Time does not allow us to absorb everything in one setting. For example, it often is best to read one chapter at a time in […] Read more
Ont. cheesemaker’s waste treatment upgrades funded
A southern Ontario cheesemaker has picked up public funding to upgrade to a “fully functioning” wastewater treatment system. Black River Cheese at Milford, about 45 km southeast of Belleville, will get $264,000 in rural economic development funding from the province for the project. Following the upgrades, the province said in a release Friday, the plant’s […] Read more
Sask. to compensate for livestock lost to predators
Combined federal and provincial funds will allow Saskatchewan to compensate its livestock producers for animals killed or injured by predators. The province on Thursday rolled out “overall enhancements” to its wildlife damage compensation program, managed by its crop insurance corporation. Under the enhanced program, producers can expect to be compensated for 100 per cent of […] Read more
Ont. puts up $3M for poultry packer at soup plant
The new owner of a shuttered Campbell’s Soup plant in southern Ontario will get almost $3 million in public funds to set up poultry processing operations there. Mississauga-based Erie Meat Products plans to process chicken and turkey at the facility in Listowel and hire and train 500 workers over the next three years to do […] Read more
Import rules remain on U.S. horses, germplasm
The import restrictions put in place last year on live horses and horse semen and embryos from the U.S. will still be in effect for the 2010 breeding season. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency put out a reminder to the Canadian equine industry Wednesday, after taking inquiries from importers as to whether last year’s restrictions […] Read more
Latest BSE case delays “negligible” risk status
The birthdate of the Alberta beef cow that’s become Canada’s 17th case of BSE will delay Canada’s shot at regaining its “negligible” risk status for the disease, Reuters reported Thursday. The news service’s Winnipeg reporter Rod Nickel quoted Ted Haney, president of the Canada Beef Export Federation, as saying Canada can’t apply to the World […] Read more
Quebec ag minister out of hospital
Quebec Agriculture Minister Claude Bechard has been discharged from a Quebec City hospital after surgery for cancer-related complications. Bechard, 40, underwent surgery Feb. 27 to remove a blockage that developed in his small intestine due to a recurrence of pancreatic cancer and has been recovering since then at l’Hotel-Dieu de Quebec. Bechard will now continue […] Read more
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