Livestock

“Adaptation measures” to help Quebec farmers and agribusinesses better develop the ag sector in the province are to get over $58 million in federal and provincial funds over four years. The federal and provincial governments on Friday announced the funding for three “complementary initiatives,” including $35 million from the federal Agricultural Flexibility Fund and $23.33

Canadian dairy farmers can expect about a 1.5 per cent increase in per-hectolitre revenue from industrial milk starting Feb. 1. The Canadian Dairy Commission on Friday rolled out the increases for support prices for butter and skim milk powder to take effect Feb. 1, 2011. “The current situation is that farm revenues are lagging behind

Manitoba’s first cases of notifiable avian flu have turned out, as predicted, to be a type low in severity and not the notorious H5N1 strain. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Thursday that the virus found in birds on a commercial turkey breeding farm in the province’s South Interlake region is low-pathogenic (“low-path”) H5N2 avian

Manitoba has raised the subsidy it pays to licensed trappers and municipalities to thin out the problem beaver population, and plans to raise the compensation it pays farmers for other wildlife damage. The immediate increase in the beaver subsidy, to $20 from $15 per animal, is meant to help rural municipalities deal with an “abundance”

British Columbia has launched a two-month online consultation as part of a larger review of its animal health laws and policies, with a specific focus on disease control. The province’s animal health policies and legislation “need to be modernized to ensure we can detect and manage a wide variety of diseases, including a broad range