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Chute Key To Safety And Productivity For People And Animals

By Helen Mcmenamin September 15, 2011

Agood, well-run chute plays a huge part in handling animals safely, reducing their stress and, more importantly, lowering the risk of injury or death for people working around the chute. Jennifer Woods has seen the good and the bad. The worst chutes I see are homebuilt or pieced together from parts of others, says Woods,

Livestock, Opinion, Other livestock

Is Agriculture Image Being Blindsided By Social Media?

By Will Verboven September 8, 2011

Aspeaker at a recent national cattle industry event showed a video which both bemused and shocked the audience. The speaker and her research company, on behalf of an industry group, was investigating public response to the image of beef. Part of the research involved a focus group to ascertain their opinions on the topic. The

Livestock, Poultry

U.S. Egg Producers Agree To Phase In Large Cages

July 14, 2011

U.S. egg farmers would give hens twice as much space as they now have under an agreement with an animal welfare group on July 7 that would be written into federal law and end years of state-by-state battles. It would be the first federal law on treatment of animals on the farm, said the groups.

Livestock, Poultry

EFC Funds Research Chair In Poultry Welfare

By Ron Friesen June 2, 2011

Canada’s egg producers are funding a poultry welfare chair at the University of Guelph to help them develop new housing systems for their birds. Egg Farmers of Canada will contribute $110,000 a year for the next seven years to research alternative housing for layer hens. The research will be headed by Tina Widowski, a University

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Polls And Animal Welfare

April 28, 2011

As you are reading this article, we are going through a federal election. As with any election, a multitude of polls are being published that declare this or that federal party is going to win either a majority government or a minority government. While the political polls are considered useful by some, nothing but entertainment

Hogs, Livestock

Producers Must Lead Changes In Animal Welfare

April 28, 2011

Taking good care of animals is a top priority for most livestock producers, one they grew up with and practise daily. But somewhere along the line that message has gotten lost, says Dr. Allan Preston. Today it is consumers, animal activists and the corporate world who have taken over the driver’s seat. “That shouldn’t happen,”

Livestock

Industry’s Future Depends On Responsible Approach

By Meristem Release April 21, 2011

New codes of practice, fresh thinking, economic opportunities and a high level of industry engagement are all driving a new generation of fast-evolving progress in farm animal care. Developments on each of these fronts took centre stage at the Livestock Care Conference, April 6-7 in Red Deer, hosted by Alberta Farm Animal Care (AFAC) and

Livestock

EU Wrestles With Issue Of Food From Cloned Animals

March 31, 2011

European Union governments and lawmakers remained deadlocked on how to regulate the production and sale of food from cloned animals, following all-night talks in Brussels that ended recently. EU sources said the remaining sticking point was a demand by lawmakers in the European Parliament for a full EU ban on the sale of food derived

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Manitoba Has The Opportunity To Lead On Animal Welfare

By Lynn Kavanagh February 24, 2011

The animal agriculture industry is fond of telling the public their animals are well cared for. It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so when the public is presented with an image of a sow confined to a metal-barred gestation crate barely larger than her body and told that this is

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 24, 2011

February 24, 2011

Regarding the story “All producers have a role in welfare image,” in the Feb. 17Manitoba Co-operator,I agree with the succinct differentiation provided by the executive director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council, Crystal MacKay. This is exactly the message that I have been trying to get across. All animal activists have been painted with the

Daily Network News

Feed Grain Weekly: Seasonal gains expected this spring

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder cattle values

Russia stops ammonium nitrate exports for one month amid global supply crunch

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