Livestock

The federal government and Canada’s poultry industry stakeholders will put up over $2.5 million in total to connect government, industry and academic researchers for work on the sector’s priorities. Abbotsford, B.C. MP Ed Fast on Wednesday announced the federal contribution of $1.8 million toward a joint research cluster to “address sector priorities and challenges concerning

Amendments to Saskatchewan’s animal abuse legislation would more than double the maximum fines and quadruple the maximum jail time available for convictions. The amendments, introduced Monday in the provincial legislature, would raise the maximum fines to $25,000 for each convicted offence, up from $5,000 for a first offence and $10,000 for subsequent offences. The maximum

Rain-soaked livestock producers in Saskatchewan will be eligible for provincial funding to move either feed to livestock or livestock to feed. The province’s new Feed and Forage Program (SFFP), announced Tuesday, pledges help with those transport costs, as well as $30 per acre for producers to reseed hay, forage or pasture land wrecked by “unprecedented”

Cattle backgrounders in Alberta are the second group eligible for a provincial price insurance program meant to insulate against price risk, basis risk and currency risk. Launched Monday, the voluntary Cattle Price Insurance Program-Feeder (CPIP-Feeder) is meant to complement the CPIP offered in September 2009 to cattle feeders on their finished cattle (CPIP-Fed). “In purchasing

Up for sale since 2008, Maple Leaf Foods’ Burlington, Ont. pork slaughter and packing plant will be picked up by a U.S. private investment firm for about $20 million. The Toronto food firm on Tuesday announced a deal with an unnamed affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, a major U.S. private investment firm headquartered at Boca

An insurance broker turned northwestern New Brunswick MP has been named as the new legislative secretary to the province’s agriculture minister. Yvon Bonenfant, the new MLA for Madawaska-les-Lacs, was named Friday as one of two legislative secretaries to Mike Olscamp, who was sworn in last month as the new Tory government’s minister of agriculture, aquaculture

A Prairie meat processor serving the retail ready-to-eat market has picked up public funding to move its business from Calgary to the Niagara region. New Food Classics, based in Calgary, will get $1 million from Ontario’s Rural Economic Development program for its planned move to a former poultry plant at St. Catharines, Ont. “With the

The income tax deferrals usually granted to drought-stricken ranchers on their sales of breeding stock will now be extended to livestock producers left waterlogged this year in Manitoba and northeastern Saskatchewan. Producers in Saskatchewan’s northeast and parts of northern, central and western Manitoba including the Interlake and Westlake regions were hit with excessive moisture and

A new Canadian-led study, testing the math used to estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) output from belching, farting dairy cows, shows the current models either overshoot or undershoot the mark. The equations used to predict cows’ methane emissions are inaccurate and need improvement soon to help dairy farmers adjust their animals’ GHG releases, according to