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Livestock, Poultry

Feds Looking To Boost Small Meat Plants

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Winnipeg Old Country Sausage is among 12 Canadian meat plants that may get help achieving federal- inspection status in a bid to create opportunities for livestock producers. Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec both have three plants under consideration while P.E.I. and Alberta have one each. Federal and provincial agriculture ministers want to encourage provincially inspected plants
Cereals, Crops

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readbasket of the World Under Siege” blared the headline on an opening slide in Dilantha Fernando’s PowerPoint presentation. It was a dramatic way to start a workshop on fusarium head blight. But was it exaggerated? “It all depends on which year we are talking about,” said Fernando, a University of Manitoba plant pathologist. It was
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Small Hive Beetle Detected In Manitoba

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The appearance of the small hive beetle in Manitoba has honey producers concerned about another possible addition to a growing list of destructive pests in their colonies. A live small hive beetle (SHB) was found April 7 among packaging material in a shipment of honeybee queens from Hawaii. SHB larvae have also been detected in
Forages, News

Compensation Sought For Artificial Flooding

Manitoba farmers should be compensated when flood prevention infrastructure causes their land to flood resulting in lost income, says the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). “The farmers aren’t getting properly compensated for damage from holding the water on their lands,” Starbuck-area farmer Doug Livingston said during a debate at KAP’s General Council meeting here April 14.
Hogs, News

Pork Industry Awards Announced

The Manitoba Pork Council honoured two Manitobans recently for their contributions to the industry. The late Larry Friesen of Hangar Farms was recognized for his passionate pursuit of free trade in hogs. He became the first director of Manitoba Pork’s Weanling Exporters in 2001, a position he held until his accidental death due to a
News, Oilseeds

Phytosanitary Grain Rules Need Work

The international grain trade needs better phytosanitary rules and tolerances for low-level presence of genetically modified (GM) crops, says Dennis Stephens, a consultant contracted to co-ordinate the Canada Grains Council. “Zero thresholds are no longer obtainable,” Stephens told the council’s 42nd annual meeting in Winnipeg earlier this month. “We’ve reached a stage where we have
Cereals, Crops, Hogs

Farm Debate Mostly A Rerun Of Earlier Shows

Other than the occasional elbow in the direction of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, the two-hour debate among the main political parties on agriculture policy April 11 featured a lot of the same old taunts and promises. Liberal Wayne Easter, Bloc Andre Bellevance and New Democrat Pat Martin, whose downtown Winnipeg riding includes the headquarters of
Cereals, Crops

Party Agriculture Platforms For May 2 Election

CONSERVATIVE PARTY: A Conservative government would invest $100 million over five years into the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, extend accelerated writeoffs for new food-processing equipment and create a $50-million agriculture innovation fund. It would increase support for the Agriculture and Food Trade Commissioner Service and the Market Access Secretariat to find new markets for Canadian
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Hatching Egg Producers Seek Improved Disease Compensation

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Canada’s broiler hatching egg farmers are examining the possibility of an insurance program to protect them against uncompensated losses resulting from reportable diseases in their flocks. Canadian Hatching Egg Producers is investigating an insurance package that would cover lost product ion and income from flocks that have to be destroyed. So far, the invest igat
Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

KAP Opposes Roundup Ready Alfalfa’s Release In Canada

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The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has added its voice to groups opposed to the release of Roundup Ready alfalfa. “It’s a superweed,” Paul Gregory, a Fisher Branch farmer and alfalfa seed exporter said during debate on his resolution for KAP to support the Manitoba Forage Seed Association’s efforts to block Roundup Ready alfalfa’s release. “Once

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