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Beef cattle, Livestock

Goal Shifts Away From Hooks, Slaughter Capacity

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AWinnipeg beef-processing plant being retrofitted to supply premium-paying markets at home and abroad reflects the new reality for beef processing in Canada, the executive director of the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council says. Canada’s shrinking beef herd means that simply expanding slaughter capacity is no longer the priority it once was, Kate Butler told a producer
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,
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

U. S. Entrepreneur Says There Is A Better Way To Raise Beef

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If Todd Churchill is right, he’s come up with a grass-fed beef production model that could pull the rug out from under confinement grain-fed livestock-feeding systems. “In my opinion, confinement livestock is about to be thrown virtually off the bus,” Churchill told a Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council strategic planning session Nov. 30. “In 10 years,
Crops, Livestock

What’s Up – for Nov. 26, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 21-28 – Canadian Western Agribition, Evraz Place (formerly Regina Exhibition Park), Regina. For more info visit www.agribition.com. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No. 3 annual meeting, 1:30 p. m., University of Manitoba research station, Carman. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No.
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Keystone Processing gets government fund injection

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“This is about the future of the cattle industry here at home.” – kelly penner, keystone processing lans for a new beef-processing plant in Manitoba got a $17.5-million boost this week. The provincial government is investing up to $7.5 million in Keystone Processors Ltd., which will trigger as much as $10 million in loans from
Hogs, Livestock, News

Briefs continued – for Nov. 5, 2009

New members: The Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council (MCEC) has appointed three new members to its council. Barry Todd, deputy minister of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives is the new chair. Other newcomers include, Charles Gall, of Moosehorn and David Wiens of Grunthal. They join current members Gaylene Dutchyshen, of Gilbert Plains, Albert Todosichuk, of
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

It’s Your Turn

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This week’s announcement of federal loans and another Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council investment to support Keystone Processors’ bid to become Manitoba’s largest federally inspected meat processor isn’t enough to turn the tide for this province’s struggling beef producers. But it’s a step in the right direction. The move by this company along with two smaller

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