In Brief… – for Sep. 24, 2009

Food aid budgets crash: Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever. Josette Sheeran, UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) executive director said the number of hungry people passed one billion this year for the first time, adding the UN has barely

Colombia Ends Six-Year Ban On Canadian Beef

Colombia has agreed to resume imports of Canadian beef from all ages of cattle, Canadian Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Sept. 16. Colombia will be the first market in South America to reopen to Canadian beef imports since mad cow disease was found on a western Canadian farm in 2003. It had agreed in the


What’s Up – for Sep. 24, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Sept. 25-27 – Llama Canada national conference, Best Western Denham Inn and Suites, 5207-50th Ave., Leduc, Alta. For more info call toll free 1-866-450-2172 or visit www.llamacanada.com. Sept. 29 – Beef Outlook meeting, 7 to 9:30 p. m., Sun Gro Centre, Beausejour. Topics: Market outlook, winter

4-H Reports – for Sep. 17, 2009

The Co-operator will publish 4-H reports once a month. Reports can be submitted by the third week of the month by e-mail to [email protected],by regular mail to 4-H Reports, c/o Manitoba Co-operator, 1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1 or by fax to 204-954-1422. JUDGES NAMED AT ROUNDUP The second annual Manitoba Youth Beef Roundup


Manitoba Holds Back On Cattle Price Insurance

“We want all producers to have equal access to programs across Canada.” – JOE BOUCHARD, MCPA The Manitoba government is in no hurry to follow Alberta’s recent lead in providing price insurance for cattle producers. The province will wait to see how the new Alberta program works out before even considering a similar one, said

New Listeria Policy Claims A Success

While it was nothing on the scale of last year’s incident with Maple Leaf deli meats, a recall of sliced meat products from a Montreal company suggests new federal listeria rules help. The recall involved Delstar Foods of Montreal that distributes ready-to-eat products under its own and Compliments brands. It recalled all its sliced meats


Pork, Poultry Prices Pressure Cattle Values

DWAYNE KLASSEN RNI – Gene Parks,Pipestone Livestock Sales “If you are selling pork chops for $2.50 a pound, consumers don’t want to pay $11.50 a pound for ribeye.” Marketi ngs of cattle at the auction yards in Manitoba continued to increase during the week ended Aug. 28. Prices for cattle, however, remained on the defensive

Market Access Secretariat Ready

“There haven’t been the resources available to go and attack the world.” – TED HANEY, CBEF Anewly created federal agency to develop new foreign markets for Canadian agricultural products should be fully operational by September 30. The Agricultural Market Access Secretariat (AMAS) expects to have staff hired by September 15 amid high expectations for new



Cattle Inventories In Canada Decline

Canada’s estimated total cattle and calf inventory as of July 1, continued to decline, dropping 2.3 per cent from the level seen at the same time a year ago, according to figures released by Statistics Canada Aug. 20. The beef herd in Canada was down 2.4 per cent from the year-ago level while dairy herd