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Downer Animals Can No Longer Go To Slaughter

By Ron Friesen March 26, 2009

Recent changes to provincial legislation make it illegal to transport “downer” animals to slaughter plants in Manitoba. Bill 2 (The Animal Care Amendment Act) now only allows downers to be transported to veterinary clinics. The bill recently passed public hearings by the Manitoba Legislature Standing Committee on Agriculture and Food. It defines a downed animal

Livestock, News

Coalition To Step Up Anti-Confinement Activity

By Ron Friesen March 19, 2009

“They don’t really understand what the welfare picture is in Canada.” – SHANYN SILINSKI, MFAC Acoalition of Canadian animal welfare organizations plans to increase pressure on government and the agricultural industry to ban confinement systems for farm animals. The seven-member group met in Winnipeg this past weekend to plan strategy for a national campaign against

News, Poultry

Egg Wars A Thing Of The Past, Producers Told

By Ron Friesen March 19, 2009

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

Hogs, Livestock

Industry Vies For Federal Money

By Alana Vannahme March 19, 2009

The Canadian livestock and meat industries are wishfully thinking as they wait for details on how the $50 million promised for Canadian slaughterhouses in the federal budget will be distributed. Jim Laws, executive director of the Canadian Meat Council in Ottawa, said he was surprised by talk that the money could be used to expand

Livestock

Virus To Cut Chile Salmon Output

March 12, 2009

Salmon output in Chile, the world’s No. 2 producer, will fall around 30 per cent in 2009 from a year earlier to around 320,000 tonnes as the industry grapples with a lethal virus, leading industry association SalmonChile said March 6. Rodrigo Infante, CEO of SalmonChile – which groups Chile’s main salmon producers – said he

Hogs, Livestock, News

China Blames Blue Ear For Over 1,000 Pig Deaths

February 19, 2009

Blue ear disease has killed more than 1,000 pigs in the northern province of Shanxi, but agriculture experts said the spread of the disease should be contained by a vaccination program. Local authorities have sealed villages and forced local breeders to vaccinate pigs to prevent the spread of the disease, which killed 1,056 pigs in

News

Fur markets hit by downturn

By Daniel Winters January 8, 2009

“It’s going to be a bit of a challenge this year to market the fur.” – Dave Bewick After a number of good years, trappers and fur farmers may be heading back into a lean spell, as tumbling stock markets around the world signal the arrival of a major economic downturn. With less cash in

Other

USDA needs to improve slaughter inspection: report

By Christopher Doering December 18, 2008

The U. S. meat inspection system has flaws that may create food safety risks, although the problems that forced a California packer to conduct the largest meat recall ever are not widespread, according to a federal review. The audit by USDA’s inspector general came after a videotape released Jan. 30 showed Hallmark/Westland Meat Co. workers

Hogs, Livestock, News

German hog farms adapt to stall-free, drug-free model

By Jim Romahn November 27, 2008

Germany, it appears, could teach Canadian hog farmers a thing or two. And two of its hog producers came here to the annual swine industry seminar recently to do exactly that. German producers have learned through trial and “a lot of mistakes” how to raise hogs in free-stall conditions, said Dr. Friedrich Osterhoff of Ahrhoff

Hogs, Livestock, News, Poultry

California resolution rings alarm for livestock farmers in Canada

By Ron Friesen November 20, 2008

Largely unnoticed during the November 4 U. S. presidential election was the passage of a sweeping California ballot initiative which could have far-reaching effects for livestock production in North America. Proposition 2 will effectively ban gestation stalls, battery cages and veal crates in California by 2015. The initiative, which voters passed by a margin of

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

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