Livestock

The five-second milk commercials you’ve been seeing on TV and before the movie at the multiplex are entering the third dimension. Dairy Farmers of Canada announced Wednesday it will launch Canada’s first-ever 3-D advertising campaign this summer in 19 Cineplex theatres showing 3-D movies in Ontario and the Maritimes. The 3-D ads, which will launch […] Read more

Newfoundland and Labrador has launched its agreement with the federal government on the specifics of its funding through the new Growing Forward ag policy framework. Growing Forward is Ottawa and the provinces’ replacement for the previous five-year federal/provincial Agricultural Policy Framework (APF, 2003-08). The new $1.3 billion agreement is intended to cover cost-shared ag-related programming, […] Read more

Making room in cabinet for one of Monday’s byelection winners, Quebec’s Liberal government has named a policy analyst turned politician as the province’s new agriculture minister. Kamouraska-Temiscouata MLA Claude Bechard was moved Tuesday from the natural resources portfolio to take over both the agriculture, food and fisheries and intergovernmental affairs files. As ag minister, Bechard […] Read more

Canada’s biggest dairy processor plans to continue its expansion in U.S. processing capacity by buying a California cheese firm. Montreal-based Saputo said Tuesday it will buy the activities of F+A Dairy of California, a mozzarella, provolone and whey producer at Newman, about 130 km east of San Jose. Saputo, which bills itself as the world’s […] Read more

Le Cegep de l’Abitibi-Temiscamingue, a western Quebec college, plans to offer a new diploma program in farm business management starting in the fall of 2010. The Cegep (a French abbreviation for a general/vocational college, similar to the community college model), which operates campuses at Amos, Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d’Or, is offering the courses in partnership with […] Read more

Ontario and the federal government have pledged a combined $42.3 million to continue environmental farm plan (EFP) programming in the province for another four years. Funding for what’s now called the Environmental and Climate Change program will flow through the federal/provincial Growing Forward ag policy framework. The program, to be delivered by the Ontario Soil […] Read more

Six crop and livestock programs geared toward New Brunswick’s broader policy goal of provincial “self-sufficiency” will share $1.7 million in funding. Provincial Ag Minister Ronald Ouellette announced the funds Monday, describing them as “investment capital to agricultural producers in the areas of land development, livestock genetic enhancement, organic industry development, apple industry development, export market […] Read more

High-pressure processing (HPP) equipment is being made available to Canadian processors to find out whether the treatment method is right for their foods. The Alberta government announced Friday that its Food Processing Development Centre at Leduc, just south of Edmonton, is now home to the only publicly accessible, commercial-scale HPP machine in the country. The […] Read more

Pork and poultry packer Olymel plans to spend about $2.2 million on major renovations at two of its Quebec poultry processing plants. Olymel said Monday it will spend about $1.76 million at Ste-Rosalie, about 40 km southwest of Drummondville, to expand and renovate its deboning and further processing plant. The project, which is expected to […] Read more