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McDonald’s VP Hears Ranchers’ Beefs

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The first rule of marketing is to know who the customer is and what they want. In the cattle business, that’s the buyers of burger meat, because up to 60 per cent of every steer that goes down the kill chute is eventually sold as hamburger. Out of last year’s beef crop, some 64 million
Hogs, Livestock

Needle-Free Injectors Available For Hog Producers

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“It’s fast, quick, easy.” – ROBYN HARTE, MAFRI You no longer require a needle to vaccinate a pig. Manitoba hog producers can now get funding to subsidize the cost of buying needle-less injectors for use in their herds. The money is avai lable under a federal-provincial Growing Forward food safety program. An $800,000 fund will
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Tories Accused Of Stalling On SRM Subsidy

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Conservative members on the House of Commons agricultural committee are being accused of obstruction in blocking a recommendation for financial aid to Canada’s cattle processors. In a December 11 letter to the beef industry, opposition committee members accused Tory members of repeatedly preventing a vote on a motion to recommend subsidizing the slaughter of older
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Growing The Industry Before The Market

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Canada’s beef sector must move out of America’s shadow and take charge of its own future, two prominent beef industry consultants told a Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council (MCEC) strategy session Nov. 30. “You just have to wake up to the reality that if you are going to access export markets, you are going to have
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

SRM Subsidy Critical To Survival, Packers Say

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“There’s a very real possibility that there would not be a cow killer east of Brooks.” – BRAD WILDEMAN, CCA Canada risks losing its entire processing sector for older cattle unless the federal government subsidizes the cost of removing specified risk materials (SRMs) from beef carcasses, the industry warns. New, less stringent regulations for SRM
Opinion

Ohio Livestock Vote Simply Devilish

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If idle hands are the devil’s workshop, idle thoughts are, what, the product of a devil’s advocate? Maybe, but one election result from early November leaves plenty of room for thought, idle or otherwise. On Nov. 3, Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved Issue 2, a statehouse-directed ballot initiative to create a “Livestock Care Standards Board.” The
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Maple Leaf Hit With More Bad News

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Maple Leaf Foods says sanitary conditions at its Toronto plant that was the source of the deadly listeria outbreak in 2008 have improved greatly. There have been no recalls of products or orders to withhold deli meats from the market, says Maple Leaf spokeswoman Linda Smith. A Canadian Press story, citing documents obtained under Access
Hogs, Livestock

Program Backs Purchase Of Needle-Less Injectors

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Manitoba’s On-Farm Food Safety Program now includes an initiative to help livestock producers and related businesses buy needle-less injectors to administer vaccines and medications. The program, funded through the Growing Forward agriculture policy framework, will provide up to $2,000 toward the purchase of a needle-less injector by a Manitoba farm, farm supplier, assembly yard or
Livestock

ALMA Supports BSE-Testing Study

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“This idea arose from a meeting between ALMA, APRI and PrioNet Canada to determine what prion-related issues were facing the livestock industry.” A proposal for a study that has been a long time coming is being initiated by a consortium made up of the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA), the Alberta Prion Research Institute
Livestock

U. S. House Cat Catches H1n1

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A 13-year-old indoor cat in Iowa is confirmed to have had and recovered from pandemic H1N1 influenza, marking another species crossover for the virus. “Two of the three members of the family that owns the pet had suffered from influenza-like illness before the cat became ill,” veterinarian Dr. Ann Garvey of the Iowa Department of

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