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(Resource News International) -- The liquidation of Canada's beef cattle herd is seen winding down in a year's time. A Statistics Canada report released in February showed low farm inventories of cattle in Canada, which the government agency said reflected market uncertainty and rising input costs. The report confirmed a continuation of a long-term downward[...]

(Resource News International) -- The addition of Keystone Processors to the small Manitoba beef market has ruffled the feathers of some of the province's existing packers and processors and highlighted the industry's need for federal funding support. Keystone Processors Ltd. opened March 10 at the old Maple Leaf Foods facility on Marion Street in Winnipeg.[...]

(Resource News International) -- A agriculture trade deal at the World Trade Organization's Doha round would not have to spell the end of Canada's supply management system, according to a former senior trade official. Contrary to what's often said, the decades-old system that protects Canada's dairy, egg and poultry industries through tariffs, supply quotas and[...]

(Resource News International) -- Total Canadian pork product exports are expected to slip in 2009 due to production declines in the Canadian hog sector. "Because hog production will go down in 2009, the best we can think of is to maintain the same levels as last year but realistically we may have to expect a[...]

(Resource News International) -- Exports of Canadian beef to the U.S. are expected to remain steady or decline slightly in 2008, whereas beef exports to other key markets are expected to increase, according to industry watchers. Live cattle exports, meanwhile, are expected to remain steady. Andrea Brocklebank, research analyst with CanFax, a division of the[...]

(Resource News International) -- Keystone Processors' ribbon-cutting -- or in this case, beef tenderloin-cutting ceremony -- just took place Tuesday, but the new Winnipeg beef processing company is already thinking ahead to its next step: the export market. Keystone is currently only licenced to sell product within Manitoba but the mainly producer-owned company hopes to[...]

(Resource News International) -- While the new U.S. administration decides whether it will re-open the debate on country-of-origin-labelling (COOL) legislation, Canadian livestock groups hope President Barack Obama's recent warnings on "Buy America" provisions show a commitment to pragmatism, not ideology. COOL legislation was thrown into limbo Jan. 22 when Obama put a hold on all[...]

(Resource News International) -- The Canadian hog industry may lose some of its best producers if the crisis now facing the industry continues, according to Clare Schlegel, president of the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) in Ottawa. In two to three years' time, Schlegel said, he anticipates the Canadian hog industry will have declined. The CPC[...]

(Resource News International) -- Since the boom in the U.S. biofuel industry, U.S. supplies of distillers dried grains, a co-product of ethanol production, have grown significantly and U.S. exporters have been looking north to a large and growing market for their feed alternative. At the recent United States Grain Council's (USGC) International Distillers Grains Conference[...]

(Resource News International) -- The chairman of the Saskatchewan Slaughter Plant Initiative says the group continues to move ahead with plans to construct a one million-head-per-year hog slaughter plant to open by next fall "We know that the best time to start production is the fall, to open when the prices are right, so we're[...]