Livestock
The Canada Beef Export Federation is on the verge of collapse after provincial cattle associations abruptly pulled out of a Feb. 17 meeting and took most of CBEF’s funding with them. The associations withdrew their memberships in protest after a special CBEF members’ meeting to vote on amalgamating Canada’s three national beef agencies broke up […] Read more
Beef Export Federation teeters as merger vote ends in disarray
Sask. feed program boosted to cover feed purchases
A program to help rain-soaked Saskatchewan livestock producers move feed to livestock, move livestock to feed or reseed ruined hay, forage or pasture land will be topped up to help cover the bills for the feed itself. The federal and provincial governments on Tuesday announced joint AgriRecovery funding to be flowed through the province’s Feed […] Read more
Klassen: Feeder cattle remain firm
Feeder cattle prices in Western Canada were steady to slightly higher in comparison to week-ago levels. Auction market volumes or feedlot placements appear to be increasing as fall-backgrounded calves come on the market. Steers just over 500 pounds touched the $170 per hundredweight (cwt) level in southern Alberta; 6-weight cattle were also quite firm, selling […] Read more
Dry Alta. Peace gets handling funds for feed, forage
Livestock producers in northwestern Alberta’s parched Peace River region have until April 29 to apply for AgriRecovery funds to move feed to livestock, or move livestock to feed. What was dubbed Monday as the 2010 Canada-Alberta Feed Transportation Assistance Initiative is meant to cover a portion of the “extraordinary costs” for the region’s producers to […] Read more
Saputo to buy Black Diamond’s U.S. distributor
Canada’s biggest dairy processor is continuing its southward expansion by buying one of the biggest specialty and imported cheese marketers in the U.S. Saputo on Thursday said it would buy Fairmount Cheese Holdings, the parent of specialty cheese firm DCI Cheese Co. of Richfield, Wisc., in a cash deal worth US$270.5 million. And the deal […] Read more
Cattle Inventories In Canada Decline: StatsCan
Canada’s estimated total cattle and calf inventory as of January 1, 2011, continued to decline, dropping 3.4 per cent from the level seen at the same time a year ago, according to figures released by Statistics Canada on Feb. 17, 2011. As of January 1, 2011, Canadian producers had an estimated 12.460 million head of […] Read more
Tracking incentives offered for Alta. sheep, elk, deer producers
The Alberta government plans to steer just under $1 million from a livestock age-verification program toward incentives for sheep and farmed elk and deer producers to adopt tag systems for traceability. The province on Wednesday said it would offer a total of $450,000 per year for two years in incentives to Alberta’s estimated 1,900 sheep […] Read more
S. Ont. meat processor funded for new equipment
A southern Ontario deli meat maker has picked up a government loan for new equipment to help meet federal inspection requirements for quick-chilling. Heidelberg Foods, based at St. Jacobs, just north of Waterloo, has received repayable funding of over $77,000 through the federal AgriProcessing Initiative to buy and set up an automatic de-linking machine, chill […] Read more
DDGS imports slowing down
Canadian imports of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) from the U.S. are starting to slow down as ample domestic feed supplies make importing the ethanol byproduct less attractive to Canadian livestock feeders. U.S. ethanol producers exported 1.02 million tonnes of DDGS to Canada in the 2010 calendar year, according to U.S. government data released […] Read more
Quarantine nearly over for Man. turkey farm
A turkey farm in Manitoba’s southern Interlake region may be free of its avian influenza quarantine by later next week, allowing the farm to return to production. Turkey Farmers of Canada recently reported cleaning and disinfection at the farm, a breeding operation in the RM of Rockwood, were complete as of Feb. 1, launching a […] Read more
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