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U.K. firm to process meats in Canada for Walmart

Plant would be Hilton Foods' first in North America

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 20, 2023

A British-based firm processing proteins for the retail and foodservice sectors plans to set up shop somewhere in Eastern Canada, after reaching a deal to supply meat products to Walmart’s Canadian grocery business. Hilton Food Group announced Thursday it plans to open a new manufacturing plant in that region to supply Walmart Supercentres in Canada

Livestock

Préval closes deal for Alberta lamb processor, feedlot

Quebec firm picks up defunct NALCO's Alberta assets

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 30, 2023

Quebec agrifood firm Préval Ag has wrapped up its deal to buy the Alberta processing and production assets of the defunct North American Lamb Co., marking Préval’s first move into the lamb sector outside its home province. As per Alberta Farmer’s report last week, Préval confirmed Monday its divisions Westfine Meats and West Excelamb are

“When we start having enough lambs on the bottle that it takes more than 15 minutes, that’s when we fire up the machine.” – Martin Catto.

Livestock, News

Milking profit from extra lambs

So you have more lambs than the ewes have milk. When is an automatic milk machine worth it?

By Alexis Stockford November 29, 2022

For Martin Catto of Lipton, Sask., the choice of when to put lambs on his automatic milk feeder is an easy one. If he gets triplets, one of the set goes on the feeder. If human-fed lambs start eating up more time than daily mechanical maintenance and cleaning, it’s time for an automated option. “What’ll

File photo of goats on display at the Hanover Agricultural Fair in Grunthal, Man. in August 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Livestock

U.S. to lift BSE-related rules off sheep, goat imports

New scrapie-specific rules take effect next month

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 9, 2021

U.S. restrictions that have hindered that country’s imports of live Canadian sheep and goats, going back to the start of the BSE crisis in 2003, are set to be scrapped and replaced with rules applying specifically to scrapie. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) on Friday published a new

File photo of a container vessel being unloaded at a U.K. port. (Sterling750/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Other

Britain, New Zealand strike free trade deal

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 23, 2021

London/Wellington | Reuters — Britain and New Zealand have reached agreement in principle on a free trade deal designed to reduce tariffs, improve services trade, and take London one step closer to membership in a broader trans-Pacific trade agreement. Prime ministers Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern sealed the deal in a Zoom call on Wednesday

Piglets at a hog operation in China. (KuLouKu/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Markets

China targets pork self-sufficiency rate of 95 per cent

Imported beef increasing in market share

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News September 29, 2020

Beijing | Reuters — China is aiming to produce 95 per cent of its pork at home, according to a cabinet document outlining plans for its livestock sector, underscoring a goal to quickly rebuild its huge pig herd after a major disease epidemic. The document, released on Sunday, comes amid a heightened focus on food

Joey Fiola and Christel Lanthier and their three daughters, Olivia (6), Anne Rose (4) and Lila (1).

Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Resurrecting the family farm

Faces of Ag: Joey Fiola and Christel Lanthier are determined to give their girls the same farm life that shaped them

By Geralyn Wichers April 1, 2020

As 25 ewes and a gangly baby llama mill around Christel Lanthier, her six-year-old daughter chats to her in French, the language they speak at home. She’s wondering if you want to know anything about the cats, Christel translates for a reporter. Olivia explains the names of the three cats and shows off her stuffed

Beef cattle, Livestock

Major veal processor launches new brand, non-GMO label

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 30, 2019

Quebec veal, lamb and beef processor Delimax-Montpak is set to launch a new consumer brand across Canada featuring what it bills as the only GMO-free milk-fed veal on the market. The company said Tuesday it expected to have the new brand — Fontaine Family, named for the company’s founding family — available via “most major

Livestock Markets, Markets

Spirited lamb bidding as Easter approaches

The looming holiday is on the minds of sheep and goat buyers

By Mark Elliot April 15, 2019

Even the strong cool winds that reminded us winter had not yet left didn’t deter buyers or sellers at the latest Winnipeg Livestock Auction sheep and goat sale April 3. More than 250 animals went through the ring and goats were strongly featured in the sale. Buyers seeking goat kids found an excellent choice and

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Strong bidding for lambs at March 20 sale

Younger goat does of all purposes and bidding seemed to continue trends from the last sale

By Mark Elliot April 2, 2019

Spring arrived to produce a bright attitude for the Winnipeg Livestock Auction March 20 sheep and goat sale. Producers delivered 220 sheep and goats, and the buyers were prepared for some major bidding. Everyone in the arena was entertained with an orphan baby lamb being bottle fed and comforted in the owner’s lap. There was

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

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