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U.S. Pork Supplies Swell As High Prices Slow Sales

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U.S. pork supplies rose 13 per cent in October and posted the largest percentage increase from September in nine years as record-high prices slowed retail sales and increased pork production forced more pork into storage. The increase reported by the U.S. Agriculture Department on Nov. 22 was far more than some analysts had anticipated. “I
Livestock, Poultry

Foie Gras On French Fast-Food Menu

AFrench fast-food chain said Nov. 29 it intends to offer foie gras “burgers” at bargain prices as a treat for customers ahead of Christmas. Quick burger said its “Supreme Foie Gras” will consist of the normally expensive duck foie gras, beef, relish and lettuce and go on sale for only five euros (C$6.75) at more
Livestock

Maple Leaf Foods To Close Nova Scotia Meat Plant

Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada’s leading food processors, said Nov. 17 that it will close its pork plant in Berwick, Nova Scotia, at the end of April. The plant closure is the first since Maple Leaf announced in October that it plans to boost earnings by closing some plants and spending heavily to modernize
Cereals, Hogs, News, Oilseeds

Letters – for Dec. 2, 2010

The November 18 issue was very interesting reading and has prompted me to write to compliment Laura Rance for her excellent editorial on the changes in the Animal Care Act and the increased authority for provincial animal-welfare officers. I also have to say that the two letters to the editor regarding dogs riding in the
Hogs, Livestock, News

Stall-Free Petition Tops 10,000 Signatures

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Bill McDonald hauled a garbage bag half full of paper into the deputy agriculture minister’s office last week to press his case against sow gestation stalls in Manitoba. The bag contained petitions carrying over 10,000 signatures demanding the province pass laws to eliminate the stalls. “We thought it was significant to show the government physically
Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Flying For 79 Floors

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Twice a week,New York Timescolumnist Thomas L. Friedman drives political and economic policy-makers into full rant on topics as opposite as global free trade (he loves it) and national industrial policy (he loves it, too). Kiss him or kick him, Friedman can turn a phrase. A current Friedmanism notes that “If you jump off the
Beef cattle, Livestock

Sales Expected To Turn Down Towards Christmas

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Ca t t l e cont inued to be sold at a steady pace at Manitoba auction marts during the week ending November 26, despite a snowstorm that dropped in the neighbourhood of 15 centimetres in many parts of the province. Robin Hill, manager of Heartland Livestock Services in Virden, said volume was close to
Livestock

Man. lays regulatory path for livestock review powers

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The Manitoba government plans to amend its Planning Act to allow itself to set up a process by which it will review applications for large-scale livestock production. The province has set up an approval path for large-scale livestock operations in which a producer’s municipality would retain authority over land-use issues, but the environmental approval rests
Livestock

Birds destroyed at flu-stricken Man. turkey farm

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The Manitoba turkey breeding operation that played unwilling host to the province’s first cases of notifiable avian flu is, for now, bird-free. All birds at the farm in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, just northwest of Winnipeg, have been “humanely destroyed,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement Monday. Disposal is now in
Livestock

Klassen: Feeder market resumes upward trend

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Feeder cattle markets in Western Canada held steady last week. The initial cold shock usually tempers buying enthusiasm, but we now find cattle buyers accustomed to the wintry conditions. Black Angus seven-weight steers touched $128 per hundredweight. Demand for lighter cattle was also firm with 500-weight cattle trading in the range of $135 to $143;

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