Livestock
Reading Time: < 1 minute North Dakota veterinarians say that the Cache Valley virus may have been responsible for recent abortions in sheep in the central part of the state. “Preliminary laboratory investigation implicates the Cache Valley virus,” said Neil Dyer, director of North Dakota State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Determining whether Cache Valley was the cause of the abortions […] Read more
Cache Valley Virus Suspected In Sheep Abortions
B.C. Plant To Close
Reading Time: < 1 minute Maple Leaf Foods said Feb. 1 it will close its prepared meats plant in Surrey, British Columbia, as the Canadian company carries out a plan to close some facilities and modernize others to better compete with U.S. rivals. The Surrey plant, which produces ham, sliced meats, sausage and deli products. Maple Leaf said it will […] Read more
Two Years For South Korea Fmd Recovery
Reading Time: < 1 minute South Korea’s swine industry could take one or two years to recover from a foot-and-mouth epidemic that has boosted meat purchases by one of the world’s top pork importers. A long-term boost to the country’s pork imports, mainly from the U.S., could support hog futures already at record highs partly on the back of potential […] Read more
European Silage Solution Helps Beat Prairie Deluge
Reading Time: 2 minutes What do you do when it’s the end of June and the first cut is ready, but there’s rain in the forecast? The answer, generally, is silage. The problem is a silaging operation typically requires at least three people operating three machines – unless you have a self-loading silage wagon. Don Green, who runs a […] Read more
Providing Home Where Buffalo Roam Stirs Battles
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the first time in more than a century, wild buffalo from the nation’s last purebred herd will be permitted to roam free in Montana outside the bounds of Yellowstone National Park. On Jan. 11 government scientists drove 25 bison through ranchlands north of the park and into the wide-open valleys of the Gallatin National […] Read more
A Checklist For Buying A Four-Legged Vehicle
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re buying a vehicle, you should check out the features. That includes vehicles with four wheels and four legs, says Muffy Knox, an educator from Keoma, Alta., who trains both people and horses. Many people choose their horses based on their emotions and some buy their first horse because they are attracted to the […] Read more
Costa Rica Reopens To Canadian Beef
Reading Time: < 1 minute A relatively small buyer in Central America is Canada’s latest win in efforts to reopen international borders and ports to Canadian beef. Costa Rica, which shut the door on a quarter-million- dollar market for Canadian beef in 2003 following confirmation of Canada’s first domestic case of BSE, will now allow “full, unrestricted access” to Canadian […] Read more
Agropur books increased sales, profits for 2010
A business strategy based on expansion into the U.S. and export markets has paid dividends in fiscal 2010, according to Canada’s largest dairy co-operative. Longueuil, Que.-based Agropur on Wednesday reported net earnings of $39.7 million on total sales of $3.345 billion for its year ending Oct. 30, up from $33.39 million on $3.053 billion in […] Read more
Hog transition program funds fully booked up
A federally-funded exit program for cash-strapped hog producers has officially earmarked all available cash as of Jan. 31 and is now being wound down. The Canadian Pork Council, which administers the federal Hog Farm Transition Program (HFTP), said in a release Friday that the program’s $75 million budget has been allocated to a total of […] Read more
Hog traceability system funded for second phase
The Canadian Pork Council’s hog traceability system has picked up over $3.7 million in federal funding to develop the national database needed to track hog movements across the country. The government in May put up $3.3 million for the first phase of what’s been dubbed PigTrace Canada, in which the CPC developed the tag distribution […] Read more
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