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Beef mentorship program takes nationwide step

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Following up on its pilot program this year in Alberta, the Cattlemen’s Young Leaders program will now accept applications for mentorship spots available nationwide in 2011. “Beef enthusiasts” between ages 18 and 35 may apply online now to seek one of 16 eight-month CYL mentorships available beginning in April 2011. Applications will be accepted until
Crops, Hogs

Canada Hog Herd Falls To Smallest In 13 Years

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Canadian farmers cut back their hog herds to the smallest size in 13 years as of Oct. 1, as high feed costs and an unfavourably strong Canadian dollar puts many of them out of business. The hog inventory on Canadian farms slipped 0.8 per cent to 11.9 million head in the third quarter from a
Livestock

CFIA Learned From Animal Disease Outbreaks

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is usually the target of complaints from farmers, consumers and the food industry but for once Auditor General Sheila Fraser has kind words for the agency. In her latest report on government spending, Fraser says CFIA has learned from its past experiences with animal disease outbreaks that threaten farmers and
Hogs, Livestock

Changes To Trailers Will Improve Animal Welfare

A Blumenort livestock transport company has designed a trailer that could improve conditions for travelling hogs. The trailer allows for more space to be utilized for the animals and a new system for regulating temperature. No other livestock trailer in North America provides all of this, a release from Steve’s Livestock says. “It took a
Beef cattle, News

Cattle Producers Still Live In BSE’s Shadow

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Cattails and swamp grass are all that’s visible on some pastures as Menno Friesen drives a visitor around his Interlake farm in an aging pickup truck. Friesen spent 45 years beating back bushes and shrubs to develop some prime crop and grazing land in the heart of cattle country. But due to the abnormally wet
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Moving On

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It’s been seven long years since Canada’s beef industry was brought to its knees by the discovery of a BSE-infected cow in Alberta. A lot of cattle have passed through the ring since, with most fetching prices that make it hard to be excited about this industry’s future. With their equity decimated by the lost
Beef cattle, Livestock

Scene For BSE Disaster Set In The 1970S

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Industry veteran Charlie Gracey saw it coming. Gracey traces the current beef industry slump back to the 1970s which, in his view, set the stage for the post-BSE downturn. “During the four-year period from 1974 to early 1978, the industry tanked due to exuberant oversupply and huge amounts of equity were lost, particularly in the
Livestock

Supplies, Domestic Demand, Prices All Strong

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Wi t h ha r-v est operations now virtually complete across Manitoba, auction marts across the province saw large volumes during the final week of October, as the fall calf run brought in big numbers of cattle. Keith Cleaver, manager of Heartland Livestock in Brandon, said it was a good week to be selling. “The
Livestock

Feds’ Food Campaign To Focus On “% Daily Value”

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Health Canada and Canada’s biggest food industry association will spearhead a new campaign to educate consumers on the use of prepared foods’ “Nutrition Facts” tables. The federal Health Department and Toronto-based Food and Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC) said Oct. 22 they will roll out a multi-media Nutrition Facts Education Campaign to focus on “increasing

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