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Canadian Angus Association to pursue verified sustainability

Canadian Angus Association CEO Rob Smith says the group is looking at programs like Verified Beef Production Plus for inspiration when it comes to certifying sustainability

By Alexis Stockford June 28, 2017

Canadian Angus Association CEO Rob Smith wants his organization to take a larger role in verifying responsible management. “We’re going to take a look at the process for Verified Beef Production Plus and we’re going to take a look at the forms and the administrative requirements of that and we’re going to create a Canadian

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Canada, other countries raise meat inspection bar for Brazil

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek June 28, 2017

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Meat-importing countries from North America to Europe and Asia have tightened inspection standards for shipments from Brazil in a bid to protect consumers, following a probe into possible corruption involving inspectors. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said on Wednesday that the tighter inspection standards it enacted in April have resulted

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Beef processor cuts deal with ABC in ‘pink slime’ defamation case

By GFM Network News June 28, 2017

Reuters — Beef Products Inc. has settled a closely watched defamation lawsuit against American Broadcasting Co. and its reporter Jim Avila, the meat processor said on Wednesday. BPI had claimed that ABC, a unit of Walt Disney Co., and Avila defamed the company by calling its ground-beef product “pink slime” and making errors and omissions

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Burger King pledges to end deforestation by 2030

By Chris Arsenault, GFM Network News June 23, 2017

Rio de Janeiro | Thomson Reuters Foundation — The owner of Burger King has pledged to eliminate deforestation from its supply chains by 2030 but scientists say the company is not moving fast enough to stop its hamburgers from destroying rainforests and the communities who depend on them. Restaurant Brands International, one of the world’s

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Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora June 23, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s agriculture minister prepared to travel to the U.S. on Friday to fight a ban on imports of fresh Brazilian beef, which hit shares of local meatpackers and revived concerns about the image of the world’s largest beef exporter. “We will fight for this market!” said the minister, billionaire soy

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U.S. bans fresh Brazil beef imports over safety concerns

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek June 22, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — The United States halted imports of fresh Brazilian beef on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, after a high percentage of shipments failed to pass safety checks. USDA had “recurring concerns about the safety of the products intended for the American market,” after increasing tests on Brazilian beef in March,

Some of the animals more commonly known to carry rabies are bats, skunks, raccoons, and foxes.

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Beef 911: We all need to be ever vigilant when it comes to rabies

This fatal disease is very rare, but always be on the lookout for telltale signs

By Roy Lewis June 21, 2017

We don’t hear this disease mentioned very often, but when we do there is a very scary connotation attached to it. Rabies is virtually always a fatal disease to all mammals, and zoonotic to humans with no curative treatment once clinical signs develop. Only prevention through vaccination and strong surveillance programs have kept incidence of

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CFTC fines cattle futures traders US$5 million

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 21, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. futures regulators fined a Memphis trading firm and three associates US$5 million on Wednesday for using a manipulative tactic in CME Group’s cattle futures, a market grappling with extreme volatility. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it penalized McVean Trading + Investments $1.5 million and its chairman, Charles Dow McVean,

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Brazil blocks JBS deal, seeks asset freeze

By GFM Network News June 21, 2017

Brasilia | Reuters — A Brazilian judge has blocked JBS SA’s planned sale of a South American unit while the attorney general’s office urged the company’s assets be frozen, in signs of fallout from a corruption probe involving the controlling shareholders of the world’s No. 1 meatpacker. Federal Judge Ricardo Leite blocked JBS’s US$300 million sale

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JBS aims to shed Alberta feedlot in divestment plan

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer June 20, 2017

Sao Paulo/Chicago | Reuters — Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA revealed a major divestment plan Tuesday, putting its Alberta cattle feeding assets and others on the block to cut debt after a corruption scandal raised concerns about its financing costs. JBS, whose controlling shareholder recently agreed to pay a massive leniency fine after becoming embroiled in

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The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

Australian farmers shift to less fertilizer-intensive crops as Iran war costs surge

India, Japan canola crops to be steady in 2026/27 – USDA

Beef cattle

Canadian Angus Association to pursue verified sustainability

Canada, other countries raise meat inspection bar for Brazil

Beef processor cuts deal with ABC in ‘pink slime’ defamation case

Burger King pledges to end deforestation by 2030

Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

U.S. bans fresh Brazil beef imports over safety concerns

Beef 911: We all need to be ever vigilant when it comes to rabies

CFTC fines cattle futures traders US$5 million

Brazil blocks JBS deal, seeks asset freeze

JBS aims to shed Alberta feedlot in divestment plan

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