Livestock
The limit has been raised for compensation to owners of female white-tailed deer and males under 12 months old ordered destroyed for disease control, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Wednesday. The maximum compensation available for those animals under the federal Health of Animals Act has been raised from $2,500 to $4,000. CFIA said in […] Read more
Compensation raised for destroyed deer
Livestock producers need financing: Senate report
Ottawa must move immediately with measures including interest-free loans to shore up livestock producers hit by losses due to higher feed and operating costs and the rising Canadian dollar, according to an interim report tabled Tuesday by the Senate standing committee on agriculture. The loans would help producers cover their living and operating costs until […] Read more
Butter, skim milk powder support prices to rise
Support prices for butter and skim milk powder will rise effective February 1, 2008, the Canadian Dairy Commission announced Friday. The support price for skim milk powder will increase from $5.9212 to $5.9835 per kg, while the support price for butter will increase from $6.8695 to $6.9316 per kg. Support prices are the prices at […] Read more
Federal-provincial investment made in Maritime beef processing industry
A total of $12 million will be invested in the future of the Maritime beef processing industry by the governments of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, and the Government of Canada through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). The funding will allow for the development of higher-value, differentiated beef products for the […] Read more
Atlantic Women’s Institute seeks support for local beef
Women’s Institute members from across the Maritime provinces have initiated a letter-writing campaign to encourage the increased use of local beef in the region. Representatives of Women’s Institutes in the three provinces met recently to discuss their concerns about the limited availability of Atlantic beef in local retail and other establishments. “The Atlantic Beef plant […] Read more
U.S. rival buys Man. veterinary needle maker
The Manitoba firm that helped create the detectable veterinary hypodermic needles now widely used by livestock producers has been sold to its U.S. rival, ending patent fights between the two. The assets of Rivard Instruments of Winnipeg have been bought for an undisclosed sum by Neogen Corp. of Lansing, Mich., which owns needle manufacturer Ideal […] Read more
Lethbridge biogas power plant funded
A biogas processing facility planned near Lethbridge will use local livestock manure and food processing waste as feedstock to generate electricity, heat and methane gas, with $1.5 million in provincial start-up funding. The grant to ECB Enviro North America from the Alberta government’s biorefining commercialization and market development program and bioenergy infrastructure development program was […] Read more
Ont. to fund farm water protection
Farmers in Ontario are among those who can tap a new $4 million provincial government fund for water protection work in rural areas. The funding was part of a $7 million water stewardship package announced Monday, also including money to promote awareness of what individuals can do and to fund new innovations or approaches to […] Read more
Sask. hog plant plan enters second phase
(Resource News International) — Plans to build a new one million-head per year hog slaughtering facility in Saskatchewan have officially entered their second phase of development, according to a consultant involved in the project. Jim Ramsey, a project consultant for Fishing Lake First Nation and chairman of the project, said the first phase involved completing […] Read more
Half of Man. farmland committed to EFPs
Almost half of Manitoba’s agricultural land is now covered by farmers’ Environmental Farm Plans (EFPs), the federal and provincial governments reported Friday. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and provincial Ag Minister Rosann Wowchuk announced that over 5,000 farmers had completed EFPs, representing eight million acres or almost 50 per cent of all Manitoba agricultural land. […] Read more
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