Livestock

A project to generate power and heat from livestock waste and improve water remediation in Alberta’s Peace River country will get over $904,000 in provincial government funding. The province announced Friday that Smoky Pork Development Ltd. will get funding through its Bio-refining Commercialization and Market Development program and its Bio-energy Infrastructure Development program, as one […] Read more

The Quebec government has put up $2.7 million as part of a $4 million project to add research and development capability for agro-environmental goods and services at the Centre de developpement bioalimentaire du Quebec at La Pocatiere, about 90 miles northeast of Quebec City. The investment will allow the CDBQ to buy new, specialized equipment […] Read more

Alberta’s West Central Airshed Society has opened the province’s first air monitoring station powered by solar and wind energy. The station, one of 127 air monitoring stations in the province, is meant to provide background data to help manage air quality in the province. The Alberta government, which put up $40,000 toward the design and […] Read more

Burial of all birds and all litter from barns on a “depopulated” southern Saskatchewan poultry farm is complete, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday. Decomposition after burial will effectively kill the highly pathogenic H7N3 avian flu virus that infected some birds in the Regina Beach-area flock, the agency said. The burial, however, doesn’t spell […] Read more

Maple Leaf Foods’ hog production company Elite Swine has been renamed Maple Leaf Agri-Farms, the company announced Monday. The move is the latest step in the reorganization the company announced in October last year, in which it planned to refocus on value-added meat and meals. As part of that move, Maple Leaf said at the […] Read more

Ontario dairy farmer John Core, the CEO of the Canadian Dairy Commission since 2002, has been re-appointed to the post for another year by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Core served as both CEO and chairman of the commission from 2002 until the two positions were split in April this year. He was also previously a […] Read more

Manitoba hog producer Hytek Ltd. has opted to buy rather than build new to get into the pork packing business. The company, based at La Broquerie in southeastern Manitoba, announced late Thursday that it will buy the Springhill Farms pork plant at Neepawa, about 50 miles northeast of Brandon, for an undisclosed sum. The deal […] Read more

Amendments that would block farmers from splitting one large livestock operation into smaller ones to skirt the local hearing process are back on the table in the Manitoba legislature. The provincial government had sought last spring to close what it describes as a loophole in the Planning Act, but its bill was stopped by the […] Read more

All wells in British Columbia must have a secure cap in place by the end of this month to meet the province’s new ground water protection regulation, the government warned in a bulletin today. And the regulation, which will apply to all existing wells and those under construction, doesn’t allow well owners to get away […] Read more