Australia Suspends Cattle Exports To Indonesia

Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia suspended cattle exports to its top market of Indonesia June 8 after an outcry over video showing inhumane treatment of cattle there, prompting calls for an outright ban on all livestock shipments. The minority government has been under pressure to halt the A$320-million (C$330-million) Indonesia live cattle exports after television footage showed cattle being […] Read more

Southern Waterways Named After Prominent Citizens

Reading Time: < 1 minute Two creeks have been named under a program to honour Albertans for outstanding contributions. Skrine Creek, located 24 kilo-metres west of Nanton, has been named in honour of Walter and Agnes “Nesta” Skrine. The Skrine family established the Bar S Ranch on Mosquito Creek in 1887, building and maintaining a herd of up to 700 […] Read more


EPDs Help Make The Sire-Selection Decision

Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to sire selection, it is important to keep in mind that the capacity of the sire is made up of both what you can and what you cannot see. The phenotypical traits that distinguish the physical attributes of the bull are what you can see – feet and legs, frame size, testicular […] Read more

Beef Chief Takes Safety Lead

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian-born Cargill executive who oversaw construction of the company’s beef-packing plant at High River, Alta., will now be responsible for the company’s global food safety efforts. Bill Buckner, a southern Ontario native and McMaster University graduate who managed the High River plant from its opening in 1989, has been a senior vice-president at Cargill […] Read more


Rinderpest Now Wiped Out

Reading Time: < 1 minute A global effort has eradicated the cattle disease rinderpest, which caused the starvation of millions of people, making it the second disease after smallpox to be wiped out by humankind, says the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Rinderpest, known before the Roman era and also called “cattle plague,” did not affect humans directly but […] Read more

Producers Urged To Join The Battle To Eradicate Scrapie

Reading Time: 2 minutes Scrapie may not be a problem in the goat industry yet, but goat owners should be wary. “When it comes to scrapie, it’s not just about what happens to me or my farm or the goat industry,” Kerry O’Donnell, chair of the Canadian National Goat Federation Scrapie committee, told attendees at the recent Canadian Meat […] Read more


Klassen: Feeder cattle prices bounce off lows

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices appear to be stabilizing with values steady to $3 higher on average last week. A larger group of feeder heifers averaging 880 pounds sold for $104 per hundredweight (cwt) in central Alberta; 640-lb. steers sold for $149/cwt delivered to Feedlot Alley in southern Alberta. Strength in the feeder market was […] Read more

Que. cheesemaker to be fuelled by whey

A Quebec cheese producer has picked up a federal loan for equipment to use its own whey to help power and heat its manufacturing plant. Federal Transport Minister Denis Lebel on Tuesday announced $300,000 in “repayable funding” for Laiterie Charlevoix to become the first Quebec company to use such a system. The company, based at […] Read more


Ont. pet food firm funded for deadstock disposal

A pet food supply firm and major deadstock renderer in southwestern Ontario has picked up provincial funding for a new gasification system to boost its processing capacity. Atwood Pet Food Supplies, operating in Perth County at Atwood, about 60 km northwest of Kitchener, will get $3.653 million from the province’s rural economic development program toward […] Read more

Nadeau to press for chicken supply rules in N.B.

Stymied so far in its bids for satisfaction from the courts, New Brunswick processor Nadeau Poultry plans to pile pressure on the province to stabilize the chicken supply management system in its favour. Nadeau, owned by Brampton, Ont.-based Maple Lodge Farms, said Friday it’s considering seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, […] Read more