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Test Your Grilling Knowledge

By Glenyce Peterson-vangsness July 2, 2009

Safe food handling is always important, but grilling can bring special challenges. Take this quiz to see if you are doing all you can to prevent foodborne illnesses while grilling up those summer meals. Q. Is it safe or unsafe to marinate meat and poultry on the kitchen counter? A. Bacteria grows rapidly at room

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Cattle Experts Say It Will Get Better

By Kevin Hursh June 11, 2009

Cattle industry experts are in general agreement that the long-term outlook is bright for the beef industry. However, the short term remains troubled. A substantial list of long-term positives were listed by presenters at the recent Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association annual meeting in Moose Jaw. Pork, poultry and beef supplies are all dropping in North

Beef cattle, Cereals, Hogs, News

Canada Meat, Grain Sectors Eye EU Trade

By Rod Nickel June 11, 2009

Canada’s agriculture industry is eyeing free trade talks with the European Union as a rare chance to open a big high-income market. But for the beef sector, a major production shift may also be at stake. The Canadian beef industry has taken hits in recent years from low prices and prohibitive U. S. food-labelling laws,

Beef cattle, News

Beef Trade With Colombia Restored

By Ron Friesen May 28, 2009

Colombia will reopen its doors to Canadian beef and livestock, raising hopes for a breakthrough in Canada’s beef trade with Latin America. Colombia will accept 5,250 tonnes of Canadian beef annually duty free, yielding sales of nearly $6 million a year. Another expected $1 million worth of livestock and genetics sales will make the total

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Cattle Producer Predicted XL Closure

By Paul Beingessner May 28, 2009

Regular readers of this column will know I wasn’t too enthused about the sale of Lakeside Packers to XL Beef. The Competition Bureau decided that Canadian farmers would be well enough served by having two companies controlling 95 per cent of beef packing in Canada. It blessed the sale with the proviso that it would

Beef cattle, Livestock

MCEC’s New Chairman Named

May 28, 2009

The levy-funded agency tasked with building cattle slaughter and beef-processing capacity in the province has named a new chairman. Neil Van Ryssel, a dairyman and grain grower from Oakbank, has been named by Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk to replace outgoing chairman Bill Uruski on the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council (MCEC). Uruski, a former agriculture minister

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Canada Working Toward Beef Settlement With EU

By Alex Binkley May 28, 2009

Canada is discussing a possible settlement of its long-running beef dispute with the European Union, a spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade says. The issue gained attention with the announcement in mid-May that the United States had reached a settlement with the EU, which will see more American beef enter the

Beef cattle, Livestock

Glen Nicoll’s Manitoba Roundup – for May. 21, 2009

May 21, 2009

Glen Nicoll Where w e had been once surrounded by cows that were discounted in price because of an oversupply, the lack of demand had turned into $400 bred cows. That picture went fuzzy late last month when XL Foods shut down its Moose Jaw plant because of what it termed a shortage of cattle,

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for May. 21, 2009

May 21, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Market closures and price drops since the outbreak of H1N1 Influenza A are eerily familiar events with memories still vivid of May 2003 when the Canadian beef industry began taking it in the jaw over mad cow disease. Canadians rallied and ate more beef than ever that summer. This year barbecues are firing

Beef cattle, News

Canada’s Trade Hopes Raised

By Ron Friesen May 21, 2009

Canada expects to increase its beef exports to Europe, now that the U. S. will be able to do so. The U. S. and the EU have reached a four-year agreement in principle to increase American shipments of hormone-free beef to Europe. In exchange, the U. S. will gradually eliminate certain tariffs on EU products.

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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