Livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes Purdue agricultural engineers have found that soybean oil reduces greenhouse gas emissions when sprayed inside swine finishing barns. Al Heber and Jiqin Ni led a team of Purdue and University of Missouri researchers in the year-long project, which monitored the effectiveness of soybean oil on dust and odour within hog facilities. Over a 12-month test, […] Read more
Greased pigs cut greenhouse gas emissions
Historic Grazing Reserve Continues To Serve
Reading Time: 3 minutes AF contributor It’s not the first community pasture in Alberta, but Kleskun Lake certainly is the most storied. This historical lake bed has a uniqueness that sets it apart in the Peace River parkland area. Cattle were first herded to Kleskun Lake along the Edson Trail in 1912. Today, Kleskun is one of 32 community […] Read more
Carcass Demerits Are An Overlooked Cost
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The results showed that approximately 10 to 20 per cent of all hogs delivered had some form of a demerit valued at $0.60-$1.20/hog.” Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. Carcass demerits are rarely under the pig producer’s spotlight and yet they can represent […] Read more
Cleanup complete at other B.C. bird flu site
Cleaning and disinfection work have been completed on the second of two poultry farms in the Abbotsford, B.C. area after birds at both sites were found infected with a strain of avian flu. The completed cleanup has been approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the CFIA said in a statement Friday. CFIA approval of […] Read more
Premium Brands buys into Saskatoon processor
Vancouver food processing firm Premium Brands has bought a $2.5 million minority stake in a new Saskatoon meat processing company. S.J. Irvine Fine Foods opened a facility in Saskatoon in January last year to make processed meats for the retail and foodservice sectors. Premium Brands’ investment, announced Thursday, includes a deal giving it “certain call […] Read more
New Man. beef plant eager to export
(Resource News International) — Keystone Processors’ ribbon-cutting — or in this case, beef tenderloin-cutting ceremony — just took place Tuesday, but the new Winnipeg beef processing company is already thinking ahead to its next step: the export market. Keystone is currently only licenced to sell product within Manitoba but the mainly producer-owned company hopes to […] Read more
P.E.I. beef plant funding in limbo
Funding pledged in late 2007 to support the Atlantic Beef Products plant on Prince Edward Island has yet to appear, according to the federal Liberals and those close to the company. A one-time funding package was announced in mid-December 2007 pledging $12 million to support the money-losing beef plant, which is the only federally-inspected beef […] Read more
Supply management pioneer Ellard Powers, 75
Ottawa Valley dairyman Ellard Powers, credited with spearheading the development of Canada’s supply management system for dairy, poultry and eggs, has died. Memorial services were held March 4 for Powers in Beachburg, Ont., to be followed by interment there later this spring. Powers died in hospital Feb. 28 at nearby Pembroke. “When dairy farmers were […] Read more
BSE class action suit focused on settlement
If the federal government wants to flow aid to Canada’s punch-drunk beef cattle sector, it couldn’t do much better than to settle with the ranchers now suing it. That’s how Toronto lawyer Cameron Pallett, the lawyer for Niagara Falls-area cattle producer Bill Sauer, plans to press his case with officials in Ottawa to settle Sauer’s […] Read more
Hong Kong moves to take Canadian bone-in beef
The Hong Kong government’s Centre for Food Safety has resumed processing applications for imports of bone-in beef from Canada, effective Monday. The centre said in a statement Monday that it will “partially” lift its suspension of Canadian bone-in beef imports, which dates back to the discovery of Canada’s first case of BSE in an Alberta […] Read more
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