Livestock
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that Canada has regained full access for beef to Hong Kong. The announcement was made during his visit to Hong Kong, following a meeting with Donald Tsang, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The extended access refers to a relaxation of imports of meat cuts involving […] Read more
Hong Kong fully open to Canadian beef
No change planned for dairy supports: CDC
Slightly lower input prices and “stable” demand for dairy products have led the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to leave skim milk powder and butter support prices at their current level. As of Feb. 1, 2010 the support price for skim milk powder will still be $6.1783 per kg; the support price for butter will remain […] Read more
BIC Uses Facebook To Promote Canadian Beef
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Beef Information Centre (BIC) has launched the “Canadian Beef fan page” on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ILoveCanadianBeef). In its first two weeks, the fan page boasted over 2,000 “fans” of Canadian beef, including people from the United States and Europe. Posts to the fan page are also sent simultaneously to Canadian Beef’s Twitter account (@CanadianBeef). “The goal […] Read more
Hog Producers Signing Up For Assistance Programs
Reading Time: 2 minutes “We all know that our industry is in dire straits and unless we can get access to this money, it’s going to be going down the hill even quicker.” Alberta Pork wants feedback on how federal hog industry assistance programs are working in practice, chairman Herman Simons told one of a series of regional meetings […] Read more
Pork Buyers Want Quality Assurance
Reading Time: 3 minutes “This is something that needs to be looked at. I’m sure that people would prefer to buy Alberta pork over American.” Farm assurance programs and third-party certification can help producers to get more money for their product, says Mark Brooking, a consultant from Genesis, a United Kingdom-based inspection firm. Brooking is involved with farm assurance […] Read more
Research May Beef Up Flu Shots For Chickens
Reading Time: < 1 minute Biologists may have found a protein on the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu virus that chickens’ immune systems can be better trained to attack. University of Guelph pathobiology professor Shayan Sharif said the team’s work may not only lead to vaccines that better protect chickens, but control H5N1’s transmission from birds to humans. Vaccines are […] Read more
Extending Sow Life Also Extends Productivity
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Every stage of the cycle affects the next and so it’s important to get it right all the time.” – Bernie Peet Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. Managing feed intake in order to optimize sow condition can extend the productive life of […] Read more
Hennie Bos New Chair Of Alberta Milk Producers
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Alberta Milk board of directors elected Hennie Bos of Bles-Wold Dairy as chair, succeeding Bill Feenstra who served for 10 years before mandatory step-down required by Alberta’s Marketing of Agricultural Products Act. Joining Bos on the Alberta Milk executive are as vice-chairman Tom Kootstra and second vice-chairman Albert De Boer. “I am proud to […] Read more
Ont. steers Growing Forward cash to biosecurity
The Ontario and federal governments have pledged over $3 million in Growing Forward funds for a program to educate the province’s farmers on the benefits of on-farm biosecurity. The new Agricultural Biosecurity Program is expected to engage industry stakeholder organizations across livestock, poultry and crop production as well as the service and supply sectors, the […] Read more
Agropur buys further into U.S. cheese
Canada’s biggest dairy co-operative is expanding its reach further into the U.S. market by buying a nearly-new cheese factory in Iowa. Quebec-based Agropur announced Thursday its Wisconsin subsidiary Trega Foods has bought Green Meadows Foods at Hull, about 85 km north of Sioux City, for an undisclosed sum. Green Meadows, which launched its operations in […] Read more
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