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Bird Flu Fears Halt Poultry Exports From Kentucky

Ecuador and Taiwan became the latest countries to halt imports of poultry meat from Kentucky following a suspected case of the non-lethal strain of bird flu, the U. S. Agriculture Department said April 8. Russia, the top importer of U. S. chicken meat, stopped shipments of fresh and frozen poultry from the state last week.
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Differential Growth Mooted For Chicken Allocations

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“We’re trying to find a sweet spot to address everybody.” – MIKE DUNGATE, CFC An old chicken industry nemesis about allocating production to provinces is re-emerging in a different form. Chicken Farmers of Canada is under pressure to develop a system allowing different provinces to increase their production at different growth rates. The CFC board
Country Crossroads, Hogs, Other livestock, Poultry

Core Buyers Are Loyal To Their Preferred Meats

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Martin Gooch of the George Morris Centre has posted detailed reports on consumer surveys for chicken, lamb, veal and pork. It’s the most complete set of data available and was collected with funding from the federal Agriculture Department’s National Advancing Canadian Agricultural and Agri-Food Program. For chicken, the research found that the average Canadian household
Beef cattle, News, Poultry

Red Meat Boosts Cancer Risk: Study

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“I don’t think it paints a picture of what is generally happening with consumers’ dietary habits.” – RON GLASER, BIC Battered by low incomes, trade challenges and other woes, Canadian livestock producers’ latest problem is a new study which says eating red meat can shorten your life. The U. S. study tracked half a million
Opinion, Poultry

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

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Whether animal feed contaminated by salmonella or E. coli 0157:H7 contributes to the overall burden of food-borne illness in humans is a contentious issue. In a letter March 26 to The Manitoba Co-operator, Graham Cooper, executive director of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada indicated that the Canadian feed industry has adopted measures to prevent
Beef cattle, News, Poultry

K-State release

A comprehensive study conducted by agricultural economists at Kansas State University and Michigan State University revealed areas in which the beef industry can concentrate its efforts to strengthen beef demand, despite a sagging global and U. S. economy. The study showed that nutrition, safety and convenience remain important factors when it comes to shoppers’ attitudes
News, Poultry

U. S. Lawmaker Blasts China Food Safety

The United States has “serious issues” with food imports from China and needs to do more to prevent contaminated products from entering the U. S. food supply, an influential House lawmaker said March 18. At the same time, Washington needs to toughen up its own outdated food safety laws after a series of food recalls
News, Poultry

Egg Wars A Thing Of The Past, Producers Told

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When Harold Froese became Manitoba’s representative on the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency’s board of directors, the national egg system seemed about to implode. Bitter arguments between provinces over quota allocations and industrial egg programs threatened to tear the agency apart. What a difference a few years make. Since 2001, there has been “unprecedented peace” in
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Poultry

China Warns Of WTO Challenge On Poultry

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“Frankly, we’re not opposed to China seeking relief from the WTO, and we wish them success” – JIM SUMNER, USA POULTRY AND EGG EXPORT COUNCIL China said March 11 that it plans to file a complaint at the World Trade Organization about a U. S. law, renewed this month, that blocks imports of Chinese poultry

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