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Cervid Industry Gets Export Support

The federal government is investing $20,000 to develop an international strategy to increase cervid exports, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced Nov. 17. “This investment will help identify new opportunities for the cervid industry in international markets, reaching new international consumers and strengthening our industry,” Ritz said in a release. The Canadian Cervid Alliance mainly represents
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Three Ranchers Face Court Over TB Testing

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Ranchers at odds with Canadian Food Inspection Agency over testing for bovine tuberculosis are continuing to fight their cases in court. Clanwilliam-area rancher Nick Synchyshyn will face trial May 16 on three charges under the Health of Animals Act related to an incident that occurred on Nov. 17, 2009. Synchyshyn, who was fined $3,000 earlier
Livestock

Lab Breach Could Devastate U.S. Livestock Industry

The National Research Council is worried a new U.S. laboratory aimed at studying dangerous foreign animal diseases could spread highly contagious pathogens to American livestock. The lab, planned for Manhattan, Kansas, would be the world’s third Biosafety- Level 4 Pathogen facility able to handle large animals. The others are in Australia and at the Canadian
Hogs, Livestock

Watch For Mycotoxins In This Season’s Grain

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alber ta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. This year’s cool, wet weather not only delayed harvest, but also produced higher-than-normal incidence of fusarium mould in grain. Producers are being warned that high
Livestock

Man. turkey farm quarantined with avian flu

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A turkey breeding operation in Manitoba’s South Interlake region has been quarantined with an unspecified H5 strain of avian flu, though public officials don’t expect it will be a high-path strain, much less the infamous H5N1. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and provincial government confirmed Wednesday that the farm, in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood
Livestock

Alberta to form farm safety advisory body

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A provincially-backed farm safety council is expected to find ways to reduce the number of on-farm injuries in Alberta without adding more rules or more costs. The Alberta government on Tuesday announced it will name a farm safety advisory council in the new year, to be co-chaired by “government and industry” with members from farmer,
Livestock

N.S. clarifies province’s animal protection powers

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Nova Scotia will amend its new Animal Protection Act to clarify the province’s powers of seizure and custody as well as its inspectors’ powers and duties. The amendments announced Wednesday include confirmation that tests, taking samples, seizing carcasses, requiring records be produced, and taking photographs or other recordings can be conducted in the course of
Livestock

Cattle ID agency to shorten call centre hours

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Due to a “low volume of calls,” the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency has dialed back the hours of customer service for its national call centre. As of Monday (Nov. 22), the CCIA’s call centre will operate Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. MST. The agency had expanded its call centre’s hours in
Livestock

Ontario Teachers shed their Maple Leaf

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Two major banks’ investment arms have signed a $362.4 million deal to buy about a 25 per cent stake in Maple Leaf Foods from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. BMO Capital Markets and TD Securities have agreed to pay $10.50 per share for all of Teachers’ 34.5 million common shares in the iconic Canadian
Livestock

EU grants duty-free quota to Canadian beef

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The European Union will now allow duty-free imports of up to 20,000 tonnes of Canadian beef per year in a trade concession valued at over $10 million annually. The new quota, announced Tuesday by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan, won’t end an ongoing dispute between Canada and the

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