Livestock

A Saskatchewan program offering leaseholders on Crown farmland a 10 per cent purchase discount to buy the land will be extended to the end of 2010. The agricultural Crown land sale program, announced in early November last year, offered a 10 per cent discount on the purchase price of Crown land for leaseholders who bought […] Read more

New Brunswick’s provincial Environmental Trust Fund program is now accepting applications for funding from groups planning projects in watershed and wetland protection, solid waste management and other specific areas. The trust fund, which has set a deadline of Tuesday, Dec. 15 to receive applications, has several specific funding priorities for the coming fiscal year, the […] Read more

Manitoba’s On-Farm Food Safety Program now includes an initiative to help livestock producers and related businesses buy needle-less injectors to administer vaccines and medications. The program, funded through the Growing Forward agriculture policy framework, will provide up to $2,000 toward the purchase of a needle-less injector by a Manitoba farm, farm supplier, assembly yard or […] Read more

Five major Canadian banks, Farm Credit Canada and a number of credit unions have agreed to take part in the federal government’s Hog Industry Loan Loss Reserve Program. Participating lenders listed in a Manitoba Pork Council newsletter Friday include BMO Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank, RBC Royal Bank, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Farm Credit Canada […] Read more

The federal government has launched a national awareness campaign focused on farm management practices that help keep livestock healthy. “This campaign will remind farmers that farm-level biosecurity is the best investment they can make to maintain the health of their animals’ and business,” southern Ontario MP Larry Miller said in a release Friday. As part […] Read more

Retailers catering to the Hispanic consumer market in the U.S. are invited guests of Canada’s Beef Information Centre at a series of seminars in the next few months. In a release Friday, the centre outlined its plans to “educate and engage Hispanic retailers about the Canadian Beef Advantage,” or CBA, as it relates to specific […] Read more

Alberta rancher Kevin Boon has been named the new general manager of the British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association, on the retirement of Bob France. Boon’s family has ranched for the past seven years at Tomahawk, Alta., about 100 km west of Edmonton. The family has ranched for 100 years, previously operating at Delia, about 45 km […] Read more

Seven horses reportedly being shipped to Manitoba were seized in Edmonton last Sunday night after city police found their trailer left by the roadside, allegedly for days. A 74-year-old man faces charges of causing or permitting an animal to be in distress, punishable by a maximum fine of $20,000, the Edmonton Police Service said in […] Read more

Over the next two years off-road vehicle users in British Columbia will find themselves faced with a host of new rules covering off-road vehicle registration and licensing, helmet use, youth safety and environmental measures. “We’ve heard much from off-road vehicle groups, the public, and other stakeholders, including the chief coroner and the Union of BC […] Read more