Innovative poultry farm family named 2012 Farm Family of the Year

The Doerksen’s of Blumenort become the 46th Manitoba farm family honoured by the Red River Exhibition

The Red River Exhibition Association (RREA) has named the family behind Doerksen Poultry Farm Ltd., of Blumenort as the 2012 Farm Family of the Year. Orville and Beverly Doerksen, and their children Ken and Lorisa Wall, Alan and Myra Brydges and Joel and Christine Doerksen, join a distinguished list of 46 other Manitoba families who



Pigs on display

Visitors to the University of Manitoba’s Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre can now see newborn piglets on display. The community outreach centre located at the University of Manitoba’s Glenlea Research Station is part of the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment. It is designed to provide people information about the science




Study gives more reasons for passing on red meat

(Reuters) People who eat a lot of red meat are more likely to die at any given time than those who go light on the burgers and hotdogs, according to a U.S. study that followed more than 100,000 people over several decades. The more servings of both processed and unprocessed red meat people reported eating


Icky to some, delicacy to others

The sight of a pretty Chinese girl preparing to gobble down a cooked chicken head might be a turn-off for North American meat eaters, but it represents a sexy new market for livestock producers. Asians are willing to pay a premium for the privilege of eating animal parts the industry can’t give away in domestic

Germany to seek EU animal welfare label on meat

Germany will press the European Union to introduce a label on meat saying it came from humanely raised farm animals, said German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner. The move would be part of a new German government program to improve farm animal welfare, she said. “Transparency changes buying behaviour and then the production processes and manufacturing


Germany To Review Antibiotics Use In Farm Animals

HAMBURG / REUTERS / Germany will review the use of antibiotics in farm animals and possibly introduce new rules restricting their use, according to the country s agriculture minister. The move followed media reports that up to 80 per cent of chickens bred for meat in some German regions had been treated with antibiotics. Rules

High Maize Costs To Boost Foie Gras Prices

French foie gras prices could swell this year due to a surge in maize prices but the increase should have little impact on sales and exports which continued to rise last year, producers said. Foie gras makers association CIFOG said half of French households had bought foie gras in 2010 and that sales had risen