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Letters – for Jul. 8, 2010

Urban chickens a healthier option I was very interested by the article “Winnipeg group seeks backyard chicken option” (Manitoba Co-operator June 18, 2010). I am actually surprised that there are not more urban and rural people interested in raising their own chickens. There are tremendous benefits, such as much healthier eggs, free from antibiotics and
Country Crossroads, Poultry

Curried Egg And Potato Salad

RECIPE SWAP Are the kids looking for something to do now that summer holidays have arrived? When we were asking readers to share their community cookbooks earlier this year we were delighted to receive What’s Cooking in Pembina? from the Pembina 4-H Council. This cookbook was put together in 2006 when two former 4-H Districts–
News, Poultry

Winnipeg Group Seeks Backyard Chicken Option

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Darby Jones moved a small step closer last week toward enabling Winnipeggers to do what many rural Manitobans do: raise chickens in their backyards. A Winnipeg civic committee voted to refer Jones’s backyard chicken petition to a city council committee for further study. The Riel Community Committee passed the issue on to the city’s standing
Grain Markets, Poultry

USDA Unveils New Rules For Livestock Sales

WASHINGTON/REUTERS U. S. cattle, hog and poultry producers will gain additional protection against unfair sales practices in a livestock-marketing rule unveiled June 18 by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Among other steps, the rule would bar meat packers from offering better prices to large feeders than smaller operators without good reason and give poultry producers more
Opinion, Poultry

“Chicken Feed” Sums Up U. S. Poultry Returns

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In a morning session of the May 21 U. S. Department of Justice-Department of Agriculture workshop on ag and antitrust enforcement, Alabama poultry grower Garry Staples told officials he expected “retaliation” from the firm he grows chickens for because of his participation in that event’s discussion of poultry contracts. Not so, opined Assistant Attorney General
Dairy cattle, News, Poultry

Quota Levy Issue Still Flummoxes Industry

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“It’s the precedent issue that’s most alarming.” – PENNY KELLY, MEF Manitoba’s supply management producers are still in the dark about a new provincial levy on quota transfers, despite asking for an explanation. “We’re going to have to have some more discussions so we can better understand exactly where it’s coming from,” said David Wiens,
News, Poultry

HSUS Targets Laying Hen Abuses

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“I don’t think anyone can see this footage and feel good about this production system.” – WAYNE PACELLE An undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States of major U. S. egg producers showed “rampant abuse” of hens, which the animal rights group said April 7 could prompt more consumers to embrace “cage-free”
Livestock, Poultry

China Imposes New Tariffs On Some U. S. Chicken Products

China will levy countervailing duties of up to 31.4 per cent on some chicken products from the United States, the Ministry of Commerce said April 28. The ministry said subsidies the companies receive from the U. S. government had hurt the competitive position of Chinese companies. The ministry said that those U. S. companies exporting
Livestock, Poultry

Chicken Allocation Dispute Headed For Court

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“This is a chance to get it clarified once and for all.” – MI KE DUNGATE, CFC Strained relationships between Canada’s chicken industry and its federal regulator moved closer to a legal airing this week. The federal attorney general was scheduled to file court documents April 29 for a case involving a judicial review of

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