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Firm Demand Continues For Fall Run

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Activity at Manitoba’s cattle auction yards remained strong during the week ended Nov. 12, with large volumes of cattle still moving as part of the fall run being met with firm demand. “We had over 3,000 cattle this week, and we’ll have over 3,000 again next week,” said Buddy Bergner of Ashern Livestock Mart, adding
Livestock, News

Proposed Rules For U.S. Meat Industry

The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, which polices the U.S. meat and livestock industry, has proposed new rules designed to help producers compete in the marketplace and to assist the agency in prosecuting violators. Public comment on these rules concludes on Nov. 22. Many of the largest U.S. livestock trade organizations are opposed to
Beef cattle, Livestock

4-H Reports – for Nov. 18, 2010

TheCo-operatorwill publish 4-H reports once a month. Reports can be submitted by the third week of the month by email to [email protected], by regular mail to 4-H Reports, c/o Manitoba Co-operator,1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1 or by fax to 204-954- 1422. GAINSBOROUGH COMBINED The club had its first general meeting of the year
Cereals, Livestock

Saudi Arabia To Privatize Its Flour Mills

Saudi Arabia’s state-run Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO) said Nov. 9 it would privatize its flour-grinding mills by creating four companies, but will continue to import wheat and sell it to the mills. The top oil exporter has 11 flour mills it hopes to sell to private investor groups but it did not
Livestock

Agriculture, Farmland Attracting “Impact Investors”

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Investors are being given a new pitch these days: Make money and do good by investing in agriculture in Africa, Latin America and other global markets. So-called “impact investing” is catching on with a range of private equity groups, financial services firms, venture capital funds and other moneyed players. “There are a cadre of investors
Livestock

Call For Brand Inspection Shot Down

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The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association has voted to stop pushing for province-wide, mandatory brand inspection. In a hotly debated resolut ion at the group’s recent annual general meet ing, voices calling for Manitoba to join Alberta and Saskatchewan in maintaining brand inspectors were outnumbered by those who argued that such a system was too costly,
Crops, Forages, Livestock

Saskatchewan Offers Livestock Assistance

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan will compensate livestock farmers for costs they incurred because of too much rain this year, the provincial government said Nov. 9. Saskatchewan received record rainfall in spring, followed by wet periods in summer, damaging hay crops and pastures. The province will help cover farmers’ costs of transporting feed to their
Livestock, Oilseeds, Other livestock

Smaller U.S. Cattle And Hog Herds

U.S. cattle and hog producers will likely reduce herds now that it appears there will be even less corn and soybean meal for feed, analysts said. Chicken producers, who have been rapidly expanding flocks, may slow that process now that higher-priced corn and soybean meal appear to be here to stay, analysts said. “Feed costs
Livestock

MCPA Airs Range Of Wildlife Beefs

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Robin Hood famously hunted the king’s deer in Sherwood Forest. Should Manitoba’s ranchers be allowed to do the same? As part of a wide-ranging discussion of wildlife issues at the Manitoba Cattle Producer’s Association annual general meeting, Don Ransom spoke in favour of a resolution carried by the MCPA to lobby the provincial government to
Livestock

Maple Leaf to shut N.S. prepared meats plant

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Maple Leaf Foods plans to close its Larsen Packer further-processing and deli meat operations in Nova Scotia by the end of April 2011. The Toronto food processing firm on Wednesday said it would start the gradual wind-down of operations at the pork facility at Berwick, about 20 km west of Kentville, in February. The 200,000-square-foot

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