Livestock

Paperwork is now available for provincially-inspected meat processors to apply to take part in pilot projects aimed at freeing up interprovincial trade in meat. The federal government on Monday pledged up to $3 million for the series of pilots as per an agreement between the federal and provincial agriculture ministers at their meeting in Saskatoon

A Toronto investment management firm holding a substantial piece of Maple Leaf Foods now wants to see changes in how the food firm’s board of directors is chosen, who’s chosen and how much they’re paid. Maple Leaf’s board, however, says such matters are already under review and West Face Capital’s calls for a meeting on

More questions are still to come from the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement panel as its final face-to-face hearings conclude on Canada’s challenge of U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL). The hearings ended Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, with a month to come devoted to responding to written questions from the WTO panel, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association

The federal government will loan over $1.7 million to refurbish and re-equip a Moose Jaw, Sask. hog processing plant that’s sat idle since 2006. Richmond, B.C.-based meat firm Donald’s Fine Foods and its specialty pork packing arm, Britco Pork of Langley, B.C., signed a deal this summer to buy the former Moose Jaw Pork Packers

Another farm in Manitoba’s southern Interlake region has been added to a list of quarantined properties following the appearance of low-grade avian flu on a neighbouring turkey farm. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Thursday evening it had put a quarantine in place on a fourth poultry farm that had “contact” with an H5N2 avian

Regulatory amendments filed Tuesday in Alberta are the last step to restore a $1 non-refundable national beef levy to support national-level market development, promotion and research work. The filing of these last amendments follows a memorandum of agreement signed by Alberta Beef Producers and Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association in September, with the support of provincial

Fraud- and bankruptcy-related charges have been laid in Kitchener, Ont. against the province’s self-styled Pigeon King. Arlan Galbraith, 62, turned himself in to Waterloo Regional Police on Wednesday in Kitchener, where according to police he was held for a bail hearing at Provincial Court and then released until his next court date Jan. 25. Galbraith,