Livestock

Having gone live with separate consumer information websites in English and French, the Beef Information Centre has launched a new site offering beef information to a different segment: cattle producers. Housed within the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) website, the new BIC site (www.bic.cattle.ca) is aimed at BIC stakeholders, primarily Canada’s beef producers, as well as […] Read more

The World Trade Organization has set up a formal dispute settlement panel to hear Canada’s challenge of South Korea’s ban on Canadian beef. The WTO’s move follows a July 20 request from Ottawa, after consultations with the Korean government in May “did not lead to a resolution of the issue,” according to a release from […] Read more

The Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association has packed a “buy local” promotion into a 72-foot trailer and is taking it on the road. The association, supported in part by $60,000 from the Ontario Market Investment program, last week launched its new “There’s No Taste Like Home” mobile educational trailer to promote Ontario food and farmers. The […] Read more

Montreal-based grocery and pharmacy chain Metro Inc. has signed a deal to buy Les Supermarches GP, an eastern Quebec supermarket chain, for an undisclosed sum. GP, which businessman Germain Pelletier launched in 1958 in Mont-Joli as Les Marches GP, now operates 15 supermarkets in Quebec City and the province’s east, including seven GP stores, four […] Read more

The Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op will put up $300,000 for a pool price rebate of 50 cents on each hog marketed through the co-op between Jan. 1 and July 31 this year. Eligible hog producers can expect to receive their rebates by as early as Sept. 4, the co-op said in a release Friday. Normally […] Read more

Canada’s main hog farmers’ group and the federal government say they’ve agreed on a basic set of objectives for aid programs including funding for farmers’ exit strategies. At least one Ontario hog producer, however, has animal welfare advocates condemning his or her personal exit strategy. The Ottawa Humane Society (OHS) said Tuesday it was “scrambling” […] Read more

Regional government delegates from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are calling for an end to the use of the term “swine flu” to describe the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus. Delegates from the three countries signed a joint statement to that effect during the Tri-National Agricultural Accord, an annual invitation-only gathering of Canadian, U.S. and Mexican […] Read more

Riparian management and wetland protection work by a family of B.C. ranchers has earned them the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s top award for stewardship. The Madley family, which operates Canyon Ranch just west of Alexis Creek, about 335 km south of Prince George, was named the winner of the CCA’s annual TESA award during the association’s […] Read more

Residents of British Columbia are advised to start protecting themselves, their families, horses and other livestock from mosquitoes now that the West Nile virus has crossed the country. A mosquito pool sample collected from the south Okanagan tested positive for the virus at the Provincial Health Services Authority Laboratories at the B.C. Centre for Disease […] Read more