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Avian flu on Manitoba’s doorstep

The best line of defence is at the farm gate and barn door

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Manitoba’s egg and poultry producers are on high alert as avian influenza spreads to neighbouring jurisdictions. More than 75,000 birds have already been euthanized at two farms in Ontario and farms in the American Midwest have seen more than seven million birds destroyed this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Now cases have
de-feathered chickens on a food-processing line
Livestock, Poultry

Chicken industry reaches long-delayed allocation agreement

The provinces had to either find consensus or risk losing supply management

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Canada’s broiler chicken industry has reached a new quota allocation agreement, avoiding a potential showdown with a federal regulator that could have thrown the system into chaos. The Farm Products Council of Canada had threatened not to approve Chicken Farmers of Canada’s allocation requests unless it came up with an agreement reflecting provinces’ comparative advantages
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Livestock, National news, Poultry

Chicken industry struggles with production quota allocations

An old problem takes on new urgency as disgruntled provinces start pulling out of the system

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A recurring dispute over how production quota is allocated to provinces experiencing rapid population growth is once again haunting Canada’s broiler chicken industry. Negotiations to solve the issue of differential growth have repeatedly broken down and one province has left the national chicken system in protest. A solution appeared close several times this summer. But
VIDEO: The FarmQuest Project: Diakaridia Fomba
Livestock, Poultry

VIDEO: The FarmQuest Project: Diakaridia Fomba

Breeding and raising poultry in the hamlet of Dien Fomba

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Diakaridia Fomba lives in the Malian hamlet of Dien Fomba. He left home on his 20s for the city but now he’s come home to stay. While relatively successful at various jobs, he eventually realized his future was back on home developing his farming skills. “I’m a born farmer,” says Fomba. “Thankfully, it allows me to help
Mentoring food and business skills among a younger generation, and closer connection to consumers are some of the benefits that will come from improving the business environment for smaller-scale direct marketers, said proponents at MAFRD-hosted consultations across Manitoba.  PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
Livestock, News, Poultry

Small-scale producers want regs re-evaluated

Supply management limits and restrictions on advertising were among the concerns

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Producers attending public consultations on small-scale food production last week had a consistent message — the current system prohibits their success, and food safety rules and regulations need to be re-evaluated. Not everyone is so lucky. Monika Zinn, a small-scale mixed-livestock producer in Springfield, raises and directly markets chickens. She was not grandfathered. She said
Waldie David Klassen
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News & Opinion, Poultry

Agricultural Hall of Fame: Waldie David Klassen

Five new members of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame were inducted July 17 at a ceremony 
in Portage la Prairie. We're featuring a new inductee each week

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Waldie David Klassen was born December 9, 1940, in Steinbach, Manitoba. Waldie was raised on the family farm and in 1961 he took over part of his parents’ chicken operation. In 1962 he married Levina Unger. They have two daughters, Debora and Andrea, and one son, Wesley. Realizing that chicken farmers were at the mercy
Opinion, Poultry

The rooster’s wake-up call

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Anyone who has lived on or near a farmyard with chickens is well aware of the rooster’s ability to trumpet the arrival of morning long before the sun peeks over the horizon. But roosters have been delivering a wake-up call of a different sort lately — sounding the alarm over the risks inherent with the
Genetic tweaking caused a fertility problem in Ross roosters, which sire 25 per cent of the commercial broiler flock in theU.S.and virtually all of Canada’s.
Livestock, Poultry

Infertile roosters increase shortage in U.S. chicken supplies

Canadian hatcheries depend on U.S. imports but have been unaffected to date

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A genetic problem in a key breed of U.S. rooster could affect Canada’s broiler chicken industry, which imports nearly all its parent breeding stock from south of the border. The U.S. is already experiencing a shortage of breeder birds and the genetic issue could make supplies even tighter, American officials say. If that happens, it
A group of Rhode Island Red chicks at the University of Alberta’s Poultry Research Centre, which has housed collections of heritage chickens for more than 20 years.
Livestock, Poultry

Community comes together to save rare chickens

Poultry centre now providing community with farm fresh eggs and heritage chicks

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An outpouring of community support has saved a rare — and potentially priceless — collection of heritage chickens. “It’s amazing how much the general population wants to support the chickens and how much they understand about genetic preservation,” said Agnes Kulinski, business director of the University of Alberta’s Poultry Research Centre. Two years ago, when
rooster and hen in a farmyard
Opinion, Poultry

Finding a better balance

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There once was a rooster on our farm that was so nasty and unpredictable, he wound up in the stewing pot after a violent confrontation with Uncle Jerry — an event that even decades after the fact remains a cherished bit of family folklore. That rooster was big, beautiful and fearless. He ruled the roost with

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