Livestock

Farmers and ranchers using a federally-maintained system to irrigate about 20,000 acres in southern Saskatchewan may soon find themselves on the hook for more of its maintenance costs, CBC reports. The broadcaster said Tuesday that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which maintains 33 dam structures in the province’s south, as well as five irrigation systems carrying […] Read more

Ducks Unlimited Canada has picked up almost $380,000 in federal funds to see how isolated wetlands can help keep watersheds free of excess nutrients and sediment. While the study’s larger goal is to find ways to protect Lake Winnipeg, its focus will be on the other side of the province, in the Broughton’s Creek watershed […] Read more

Memorial services will be held Saturday at Fraserwood, Man., for Glen Nicoll, a well-known Manitoba farm writer, photojournalist and producer of grass-fed beef cattle. Nicoll, who had been battling brain cancer since the summer of 2008, died early Monday morning in Edmonton. Born and raised in Alberta, Nicoll came to Manitoba as a television cameraman […] Read more

One animal in one cattle herd on one western Saskatchewan farm is the lone confirmed case of anthrax poisoning so far this spring and summer in Western Canada’s livestock herds. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday this case was reported June 3, on a farm in the RM of King George, in the Rosetown/Outlook […] Read more

Programs designed to put the Canadian beef brand front and centre in major Canadian restaurant chains have yielded several new partnerships, according to the Beef Information Centre (BIC). BIC, the marketing and promotional wing of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, said in a release Thursday that its Partners Program is putting Canadian beef in a prominent […] Read more

Updated, June 29 — Canada is once again disease-free for notifiable avian influenza, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The return of the country’s disease-free status for avian flu, based on the standards set by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), follows the “successful elimination” of an outbreak of avian flu discovered in […] Read more

Some of Manitoba’s beleaguered hog producers, coming off a major rally earlier this week laying out their industry’s dire straits, are now eligible for AgriStability advance payments. The provincial and federal governments on Thursday announced a Targeted Advance Payment (TAP) for Manitoba hog producers through the federal/provincial AgriStability income stabilization program. About 277 eligible producers […] Read more

A new and permanent 28-member board of advisors to New Brunswick’s agriculture minister has been named and tasked with advising Ron Ouellette on an ag strategy for the province. The Minister’s Round Table on Agriculture, first proposed after the province’s Agriculture Summit in April last year, is generally to “offer ongoing advice to the minister […] Read more

A beleaguered and bankrupt U.S. kosher meat packer may soon continue operating in the hands of a Montreal investor and his partners. The Des Moines Register reported in an article Wednesday that Iowa-based Agriprocessors, which lost a substantial portion of its workforce in a nationally notorious raid by U.S. immigration officials last spring, may go […] Read more