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The end of pink ham? France to cut use of nitrite in cured meats

By GFM Network News February 4, 2022

Paris | Reuters — France’s parliament has approved a bill that aims to gradually reduce the use of nitrite in cured meats and has ordered a review of the potential health risks by the end of June. Nitrite salts are widely used in cured meats such as ham, bacon and sausages, extend the shelf life

Livestock

JBS gears up for U.S. and Brazil expansions

Brazilian meat giant reiterates plans following strong Q3 results

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News November 13, 2020

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Food processor JBS SA reiterated plans to grow production capacity in Brazil and in the United States after posting strong third quarter results, executives said in a conference call to discuss earnings on Thursday. CEO Gilberto Tomazoni said 12 of the company’s plants in Brazil were being expanded, as JBS

Other, Our History

During times of war, a message of courage

Our History: December 1943

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 22, 2017

The image on the front page of our December 15, 1943 issue carried a Christmas message to take courage during the bleak time of the Second World War. Among the news on the front page was that Manitoba’s total Victory Bond sales had reached $99,641,400, just short of the $100-million objective and that the Manitoba

Stephen and Vicki Yanyk are third-generation farmers.

Country Crossroads, Hogs

‘Farm fresh’ is Oakburn couple’s slogan

Steve’s Farm Fresh Pork offers a variety of products to area consumers

By Darrell Nesbitt October 17, 2017

Encouraging strong roots for a better food and agriculture system for all, a young Oakburn couple operating a third-generation family farm, has diversified their operation by offering 100 per cent fresh pork from the farm gate. Steve’s Farm Fresh Pork, owned and operated by Stephen and Vicki Yanyk, offers a variety of products to Oakburn-area

Beef cattle, News, Opinion, Other livestock

Giving meat a bad name

By John Morriss March 23, 2012

Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made.” This quote has been widely but wrongly attributed to Otto Von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor” of Germany in the 19th century, which proves that misinformation was spreading long before the Internet. However, the Internet is certainly a much more efficient way

News, Opinion

Happy hogs and right smart marketing

By Alan Guebert March 14, 2012

For over 20 years Jackie served as the main field hand on the big dairy farm of my youth. He possessed a hired man’s respect for talk; he talked only when talked to and then, most times, in a collection of southern Illinois’ phrases that carried more code than context. For example, once my father

Hogs, Livestock

No Future For Pork Belly Futures

By Bob Burgdorfer July 21, 2011

Chicago’s iconic pork belly market has closed after 50 years of being the subject of jokes for movies and TV shows and satisfying Americans’ hunger for bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange shut down the frozen pork belly futures market at the end of business on Friday, July 15. The closing had been expected. Trading

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

High Prices May Push Bacon Off Menus

By Gavin Maguire May 12, 2011

The recent royal wedding celebrations at London’s Buckingham Palace featured bacon sandwiches on the menu for the morning after the night before. The fact that bacon featured so prominently alongside other delicacies in such revered surroundings is quite fitting given that bacon prices are closing in on all-time highs and look set to continue pressing

News

Celebrate Local Flavours

March 10, 2011

Celebrating Local Flavours was the theme of the evening kickoff to the 2011 Direct Farm Marketing Conference held in Portage la Prairie March 4 and 5. Twenty direct marketers of fine jellies, greenhouse-grown greens, artisanal baked goods, wines, gourmet sausages and other fine Manitoba-made foods and beverages brought their wares for the public to sample.

Hogs, Livestock

Chef Trumpets Need To Promote Pork

February 3, 2011

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Edmonton chef Brad Smoliak is passionate about food and especially pork, but he says barriers need to be overcome in order to increase consumption. “Pork has

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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The end of pink ham? France to cut use of nitrite in cured meats

JBS gears up for U.S. and Brazil expansions

During times of war, a message of courage

‘Farm fresh’ is Oakburn couple’s slogan

Giving meat a bad name

Happy hogs and right smart marketing

No Future For Pork Belly Futures

High Prices May Push Bacon Off Menus

Celebrate Local Flavours

Chef Trumpets Need To Promote Pork

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