Livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ultimate purpose of research is to serve the industry for which it was designed. The transfer of information from the lab through to the field is what links the research to the farm. It is in this transfer that the system has failed. Often, researchers may feel distanced from the industry and industry may […] Read more
Cattle Industry And Researchers Need To Have A Talk
Responsible Use Of Drugs In Treating Beef Animals
Reading Time: 4 minutes With today’s tighter and tighter controls on residues in meat and milk, we must have the utmost responsibility how we treat our livestock. Beef Quality Assurance benefits by this, and with human antibiotic resistance increasing, we as producers must be prudent in the use of antibiotics and other drugs. This article will review some areas […] Read more
Foot-and-mouth study suggests culls may be reduced
Scientists studying foot-and-mouth disease have found that cattle with the virus are infectious for only a very short time — suggesting that mass culling previously used to reduce the disease’s spread may in future be avoided. In research published in the journal Science on Thursday, scientists found that even if the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus […] Read more
Sask. disaster plan to help cover storm’s livestock losses
A provincial disaster assistance program (PDAP) is expected help cover eligible producers who lost livestock in the blizzard that hit southern Saskatchewan last weekend. Saskatchewan’s PDAP is meant to provide coverage to individuals and businesses who have suffered uninsurable losses due to a natural disaster in areas where a municipality has declared a disaster. The […] Read more
Canada bird flu-free once more
Three months of surveillance work in Manitoba’s Interlake region have restored Canada’s status as fully free of notifiable avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday reported the end of “targeted, enhanced surveillance” in the area where a turkey breeding operation was confirmed last November to have birds with low-severity avian influenza H5N2. No […] Read more
Meat processors seek label use of word “pasteurized”
A meat and poultry processors’ body plans to press the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to allow food firms to use the term “pasteurized” on eligible meat and poultry goods. The North American Meat Processors Association (NAMP), which represents small- to medium-sized meat and poultry processors through offices in Ottawa and Washington, wrote the CFIA and […] Read more
Australia awaits Canada in Korean beef market
An Australian meat marketing and market development agency would welcome Canadian beef’s return to South Korea, according to reports. Jim Lim, regional manager in Korea for Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), was quoted Monday by Australian network ABC as saying such a move — which he believes will happen this year — would increase the […] Read more
Good barley bids available, but activity slow
Cash barley bids in the key Lethbridge, Alta. feeding area may have been seeing a little strength over the past month, but wet conditions in the area are limiting both willing buyers and available sellers. Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities said muddy conditions at most feedlots are causing many operations to look at getting […] Read more
Klassen: Rationing beef demand weighs on feeder cattle
Feeder cattle in Western Canada were $2 to $3 lower last week despite the lower numbers coming on the market. Weakness in the fed cattle prices, along with the potential for negative feeding margins, set a softer tone in the feeder complex. Buyers were not receiving the stream of orders last week and were rather […] Read more
Pullet growers name chiefs for breakaway from eggs
A reorganized national pullet producers’ group has named its leadership as it plans to seek separate status in Canada’s supply management system. Pullet Growers of Canada, formerly the National Pullet Growers Association, on Friday announced it has elected Ontario producer Andy DeWeerd as its chair, with Manitoba producer Cal Dirks as western director, Emmanuel Destrijker […] Read more
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