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COOL Challenge Could Come Soon: CPC

By Ron Friesen April 16, 2009

U. S. plants are “very cagey.” – FLORIAN POSSBERG, CPC A Wo r l d Trade Organization challenge to U. S. country-of-origin labelling is virtually certain and recent remarks by U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack may have speeded it up, industry insiders say. A letter from Vilsack to U. S. meat processors in January

Hogs, Livestock, News

Keep Heat On COOL, Livestock Groups Say

By Alex Binkley April 16, 2009

Livestock groups and the processing sector must record any example of Canadian shipments to the United States being hampered by the latest iteration of America’s COOL program, say farm leaders and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “The industry has to document any case that violates our trade agreements with the Uni ted States ,” John Masswohl,

News

B. C. Boosts Funding For Meat Processors

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

British Columbia will put up over $3 million more for a program to help meat processors upgrade their facilities or become fully licensed. The extra cash announced April 7 raises the total funding available through the B. C. meat transition assistance program (MTAP) to $11.9 million, the province said. “We’re investing more to help processors

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Russians Shun Red Meat, Turn To Fowl

By Aleksandras Budrys April 9, 2009

Russia will consume 20 per cent less pork and beef this year and cut imports substantially as the global economic crisis drives consumers to buy cheaper poultry meat, the head of the National Meat Association said. Meat processors are also adding more offal to their sausages as consumers cut spending on food products to weather

News, Oilseeds

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

By Inae Riveras March 26, 2009

Farmers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso, the country’s top soy state, are shunning once-heralded, genetically modified soy varieties in favour of conventional seeds after the hi-tech type showed poor yields. “We’re seeing less and less planting of GMO soy around here. It doesn’t give consistent performance,” said Jeferson Bif, who grows soy and corn on a

News

Ritz Rattles Sabres Over WTO Challenge To COOL

By Ron Friesen March 12, 2009

“The WTO challenge is idling at the curb, waiting to go.” – GERRY RITZ U. S. country-of-origin food labelling will finally come into effect next week amid sabre-rattling from Ottawa about possibly reviving a World Trade Organization challenge to the controversial rule. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz last week made it sound as if a WTO

Livestock

Pig Organs make 46 ill in China

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 26, 2009

Forty-six people in China’s southern province of Guangdong have suffered food poisoning after eating pig organs that contained an animal feed additive, the official Xinhua news agency said Feb. 19. All those who fell sick had eaten pig organs, said Wang Guobin, an official with the Guangzhou Municipal Public Health Bureau. Initial investigations showed the

Beef cattle, News

Bin maker posts record quarter

November 13, 2008

Vicwest Income Fund, owners of Winnipeg grain bin maker Westeel, reported a record quarter based partly on “record output” from its agricultural storage business. The Oakville, Ont. income trust last week posted $16.3 million in net income on revenues of $126.38 million for its quarter ending Sept. 30, up from $11 million on $101.05 million

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COOL Challenge Could Come Soon: CPC

Keep Heat On COOL, Livestock Groups Say

B. C. Boosts Funding For Meat Processors

Russians Shun Red Meat, Turn To Fowl

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

Ritz Rattles Sabres Over WTO Challenge To COOL

Pig Organs make 46 ill in China

Bin maker posts record quarter

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