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Cervid Industry Receives Federal Funding

By AAFC April 15, 2010

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has announced an investment of over $1 million to the Canadian Cervid Alliance to help the cervid industry capture new market opportunities and respond to the growing consumer demand for full traceability in livestock and poultry. The Canadian Integrated Food Safety Initiative (CIFSI) is funding two projects that will help producers

Cereals, Crops, News

Ochratoxin Regulations Coming For Canadian Grains

By Allan Dawson March 18, 2010

“As we go forward there are going to be more and more regulators around the world paying attention and the marketers of your grain are going to be paying more and more attention with what you do, as producers, on your farm in terms of storage, in terms of following the label when using pesticides.”

Hogs, Livestock

KSU Publishes Valuable Swine Research

March 11, 2010

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. The swine research team at Kansas State University, under the leadership of Dr. Mike Tokach, has an enviable reputation for carrying out practical and relevant research.

Beef cattle, News

Beef-Grading Agency Ready For Technology Leap

By Cindy Delaloye February 11, 2010

We have the technology, but now the question becomes how to put it to its best use. In the spring of 2008 the board of directors of the Canadian Beef Grading Agency (CBGA) set an admirable goal to have technology and objective measurement in place of today’s human and subjective graders by the year 2013.

Beef cattle, Livestock

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

By Laura Rance-Unger December 10, 2009

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,

News

Food Manufacturers Thrive In Recession

By Alex Binkley November 19, 2009

Food manufacturers are pulling through the economic recession with minimal damage because both domestic and export demand for their products remains strong, the Conference Board of Canada says. “Consumers have substituted lower-cost and store-brand foods, which usually mean lower margins for food manufacturers,” says a report released by the board. “Fortunately, exports of manufactured food

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Pulses

SUNOPTA RELEASE

November 12, 2009

“Our pea fibre is a natural, allergen-free functional fibre with proven health benefits that fits well into the SunOpta fibre portfolio…” Best Cooking Pulses of Portage la Prairie will be supplying pea fibre to the U. S.-based SunOpta Ingredients Group, which is expanding its portfolio of functional fibres to include organic and conventional pea fibre.

News

Ukraine Moves To Change Meat Import Rules

September 3, 2009

Ukraine has changed its meat import regulations and may require its inspectors to visit all foreign plants shipping meat products to the country, a U. S. Agriculture Department attaché said in a report released Aug. 24. The new requirements will begin Jan. 14, 2010, but the detailed requirements of the regulation are unclear, the attaché

Livestock

Essential Oils Tested For Disease-Fighting Qualities

March 26, 2009

Oils derived from cinnamon and cloves do more than taste and smell good – they can also fight foodborne diseases, such as E. coli and salmonella, researchers are discovering. This natural ability of some ancient natural oils – from geraniums, cloves, wild oregano, cinnamon and thyme, for example – offers promise in finding alternatives to

News, Other livestock

Mexico Tariffs Hit A Diverse List Of U. S. Goods

By Mica Rosenberg March 26, 2009

Mexico said March 18 it was imposing higher tariffs totalling $2.4 billion on a wide list of U. S. imports ranging from strawberries to Christmas trees after Washington banned Mexican trucks from U. S. roads. The official government gazette said the new tariffs, which will range from 10 per cent to 45 per cent, were

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China imports no US soybeans for third month; Argentine arrivals up 634 per cent

USDA confirms bird flu case in Wisconsin dairy herd as new wildlife spillover

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