Livestock

Dairy farmers in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island will receive price increases of about 2.95 cents per litre on the milk they produce starting next month. The New Brunswick Farm Products Commission on Monday announced an average increase of 2.95 cents for producers, with no increase at the processor level. The standard mark-up at […] Read more

The bison herd on Canada’s Prairies has made a comeback, at least on Prairie farms, according to Statistics Canada. For a species once nearly wiped out of the wild as the Prairies were settled, numbers of farmed bison have risen substantially in the last five years alone, the agency said. Census numbers of bison in […] Read more

The federal government has pledged $660,000 toward South American governments’ bids to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The funding, announced Thursday in Buenos Aires by Alberta MP Ted Menzies, will go toward contributions of lab equipment and training in FMD diagnostic tools over the next two years. These tools include computer simulation modeling to assess, predict […] Read more

“Nearly all” Saskatchewan hog farmers who were eligible for the federal/provincial Targeted Advance Payment (TAP) program have been told they’ll see less than expected or nothing at all from the program, according to the province’s hog farmer organization. That’s after the province’s hog farmers got word individually from the federal Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) […] Read more

The Alberta government’s climate change action plan is expected to include strategies to help farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The action plan, a general outline of which was released Thursday by Environment Minister Rob Renner and Premier Ed Stelmach, focuses largely on development of a “made-in-Alberta” plan for carbon capture and storage — that is, […] Read more

Ontario will dip into a $20 million fund for livestock and horticulture producers to back business training and a phone-in help line. The provincial government on Wednesday said it will direct $300,000 from that funding to the Centre for Rural Leadership. The centre will use the money to identify and deliver “the greatest immediate business […] Read more

New Brunswick will put up $3 million in loans for its hog farmers over the next two years, the agriculture department announced Wednesday. Citing the rising loonie, the “significant” drop in hog prices and escalating feed and fuel costs, the province said its program “will help stabilize the industry from extremes caused by this ‘perfect […] Read more

Mexican and Canadian ag officials are to meet next month to review the “final details” in protocols aimed at restoring trade in live Canadian cattle. Coming out of a meeting with Alberto Cárdenas Jimenez, Mexico’s secretary for agriculture and livestock, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Tuesday that technical officials from the two countries will […] Read more