Livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes “We’re still feeling the impact of trade restrictions from BSE, but we know there is tremendous opportunity to develop market access for Alberta beef and cattle genetics” The Canadian Beef and Cattle Market Development Fund will expand its scope in Alberta to allow more types of applicants and support a wider range of projects. The […] Read more
ALMA To Administer Expanded Development Program
Cattle Industry Needs Mandatory Reporting And Value-Based Pricing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yet we do not appear as an industry to have the courage to introduce a model for fear of alienating one or two buyers. In the first half of this year, there was a lot of excitement about the reduction in live cattle inventory. So much so, that against better judgment, buyers went out and […] Read more
B.C. humane society protests rodeo calf roping
When the Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition holds its 46th annual rodeo in Morris through this weekend, one group that won’t be cheering for the cowboys is a Vancouver-based animal welfare organization opposed to one of its main events: calf roping. The Vancouver Humane Society is campaigning to ban calf roping (also called tie-down roping) from […] Read more
Horse stem cell research backed at Guelph
A University of Guelph scientist will put over $1 million in post-doctoral funding toward stem cell research to treat horses for cartilage injuries, with potential benefits for horses and humans alike. Thomas Koch has been awarded a three-year fellowship from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, the university’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) announced […] Read more
Last of Russia’s Canadian pork bans lifted: report
Imports of live hogs and raw pork from Ontario will again be accepted at Russian ports of entry starting Saturday, once Moscow lifts the last of its H1N1 influenza-related bans. The Reuters news agency reported Friday that Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s animal and plant health watchdog, will lift its bans on pigs and pork from Ontario and […] Read more
Ontario Pork’s fate headed for appeal hearings
Ontario’s provincial Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal will hold hearings next month setting the agenda for a full round of appeals on how hogs are marketed in the province. The tribunal on Tuesday named its chair and vice-chairs, Kirk Walstedt, Frank Handy and Paula Lombardi respectively, as the panel that will hear appeals […] Read more
P.E.I. Honey Drops’ profile raised in West
A distribution deal with a major pharmacy/retail chain in Western Canada is expected to raise the profile of a Prince Edward Island honey company’s solid honey tablets. Island Abbey Foods on Thursday announced its Honibe-brand Honey Drops will now be sold in all 69 London Drugs stores in the four western provinces. Under the slogan […] Read more
Sask. drawing down Theodore dam for repair
A reservoir used by ranchers in east-central Saskatchewan for stock watering will be drawn down this summer for repairs to its dam. The 45-year-old Theodore Dam, on the Whitesand River near Theodore, about 40 km northwest of Yorkton, “requires immediate repairs to ensure that it remains structurally sound,” Nancy Heppner, minister for the Saskatchewan Watershed […] Read more
Tory MP urges debate on supply-managing pork
A rural Ontario Conservative MP plans to ask his caucus to take up “full debate” on bringing supply management to Canada’s pork industry. Michael Chong, who represents Wellington-Halton Hills, surrounding Guelph, and had served for most of 2006 as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s intergovernmental affairs minister, floated the idea following a meeting with hog producers […] Read more
Storm drops barn roof on B.C. farmer
High winds are blamed for dropping a hay barn’s roof on an elderly farmer in central B.C. while he drove by the building on his ATV. Alfred King, 84, was riding on an ATV on his farm northwest of Quesnel at about 1:45 p.m. Monday and was caught in a “severe weather incident” with high […] Read more
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