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Funding is available for upgrades to hog barn ventilation systems, which can help stop the spread of diseases such as porcine epidemic diarrhea.

Tight S-CAP deadline raises concern

The new funding focuses on sustainability and food safety

By Don Norman July 7, 2023

While the ag sector is welcoming the latest program announcement under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (S-CAP), farm groups say there’s not a lot of time to get the paperwork in. “I think there are benefits for farmers across the board and I do give credit to [Manitoba Agriculture] minister Johnson and the department for

News, Poultry

Wild birds have higher resistance to flu virus

With bird flu ravaging barns in the U.S. and knocking at Canada’s door,  it might be time to reconsider how poultry are raised

By Shannon VanRaes June 1, 2015

For years, poultry producers have been breeding something in their barns other than birds. Avian influenza. Long present in wild bird populations, the low-pathogen version of the virus has entered barns, remaining there until a series of mutations turned into something else — something deadly. “We have been playing with fire,” said Earl Brown, a

A worker collecting cucumbers inside a greenhouse in La Mojonera, southeastern Spain, June 2, 2011. An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant E. coli contaminated vegetables in Europe that year, killing 17 and sickening more than 1,500 in 10 European countries. Antibiotic-resistant bugs are linked to overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and agriculture. Photo: Francisco Bonilla, Reuters

Hogs, Livestock

Producers slowly becoming aware of antimicrobial resistance

By Shannon VanRaes December 5, 2013

Their misuse has the power to render the most powerful tools in modern medicine impotent, yet in Manitoba there is more regulation around the sale of pesticides than antimicrobials used in livestock production. Mounting evidence points to an increase in antimicrobial-resistant diseases worldwide, and a research paper published recently in The Lancet calls for greater

Opinion

Co-Operator Reporter Says Goodbye

By Ron Friesen July 7, 2011

One of my first assignments after arriving at theCo-operatorin July 1988 was a story about Manitoba joining the national beef tripartite stabilization program. It was the biggest thing to hit the province’s cattle industry in years and we were on deadline. I remember sitting at my desk staring at a blank computer screen with the

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Cattle And Hog Groups To Lobby Electioneering Candidates

By Ron Friesen April 7, 2011

Improved market access and better business risk management programs top livestock producers’ wish list for the May 2 federal election. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the Canadian Pork Council vow to make trade and BRMs election issues as the campaign gets underway. They also say they will tell politicians that rising input costs and an

News

Pullet Growers Seek Separate National Agency

By Ron Friesen March 17, 2011

Canada’s supply management industry could have a new member if efforts by pullet growers to form a national marketing agency succeed. Pullet farmers are asking the Farm Products Council of Canada to grant them Part 2 Agency status under the Farm Products Agencies Act. The move, if granted, would recognize pullets as a separate sector

Crops

Canada FarmSafe Plan: A New Tool For Creating Safer Farms

By Lorraine Stevenson March 17, 2011

Anew resource becomes available to Canadian farmers later this month to help develop agricultural health and safety plans custom fit for their own farm operations. The new Sécur i Fe rme Canada FarmSafe Plan is a business risk management tool for voluntary adoption by farmer-owners of all types and sizes of farms, say Canadian Agricultural

Opinion, Poultry

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

By Rick Holley April 2, 2009

Whether animal feed contaminated by salmonella or E. coli 0157:H7 contributes to the overall burden of food-borne illness in humans is a contentious issue. In a letter March 26 to The Manitoba Co-operator, Graham Cooper, executive director of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada indicated that the Canadian feed industry has adopted measures to prevent

News

KAP demands tax credits for food safety

By Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

“It can get very expensive.” – Ian Wishart, KAP Manitoba farmers want a tax reward for providing consumers with safe, wholesome food. Keystone Agricultural Producers delegates at their annual meeting passed a resolution demanding producers receive income tax credits for carrying out on-farm food safety programs. The credits could be in the form of income

News

Insurance company says farmers need more insurance

By Jim Romahn January 8, 2009

Farmers can expect to be named in lawsuits arising from food poisonings, a lawyer from Hanover told a food safety and traceability forum organized by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs here recently. Bryan Hicks said “we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg” in class-action lawsuits so far, and also said

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

Tag Archives on-farm food safety programs

Tight S-CAP deadline raises concern

Wild birds have higher resistance to flu virus

Producers slowly becoming aware of antimicrobial resistance

Co-Operator Reporter Says Goodbye

Cattle And Hog Groups To Lobby Electioneering Candidates

Pullet Growers Seek Separate National Agency

Canada FarmSafe Plan: A New Tool For Creating Safer Farms

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

KAP demands tax credits for food safety

Insurance company says farmers need more insurance

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