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Feds fulfilling promises key to supply management surviving TPP

Ongoing industry talks with federal government providing clarity, say industry insiders

By Alex Binkley March 15, 2016

The supply-managed sector can survive the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership if the federal government makes good on promises to control mislabelled imports and provide financial compensation. Robin Horel, president and CEO, Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council, told the Senate agriculture committee the industry has been in talks with federal officials about border controls and programs

Livestock

Poultry farmers still need answers on TPP impact

Producers are hopeful Canadian consumers will continue to buy their products

By Alex Binkley February 23, 2016

Although they’ll have to cope with significantly increased imports if Canada ratifies the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Canadian egg, chicken and turkey farmers aren’t calling foul over the extra fowl. Instead they plan to encourage consumers to shop Canadian because the domestic products don’t cost much more, they come from smaller farms and they are

Livestock

Canada’s no-buy list for poultry, eggs down to two states

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 7, 2016

Canada is now warning cross-border travellers to the U.S. against bringing in raw poultry and eggs from two states, down from six at the end of 2015. As of Tuesday, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, travellers entering Canada from the U.S. may not bring in uncooked poultry products, live birds and/or eggs from

Under the new guidelines, broilers and turkeys will get a four-hour dark period per day to help them sleep.

Livestock, Poultry

New poultry code of practice drafted

The new code offers more specifics about raising birds

By Ron Friesen December 1, 2015

A proposed new code of practice for the Canadian feather industry doesn’t contain many changes but it does get a lot more specific about how to raise poultry. Besides offering guidance, the new code outlines detailed requirements and recommended practices for the care and handling of broiler chickens, turkeys, breeders and hatching eggs. It goes

Livestock, Markets

Canada now avian flu-free

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 9, 2015

With no new cases in poultry since April and no farms in quarantine since July, Canada has officially declared itself free of avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday it has informed the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is free of notifiable avian flu. No new outbreaks of highly pathogenic

Beef cattle, Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Markets

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 5, 2015

Canada’s federal government has pledged a suite of compensation programs for supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, against what it promises will be a mousehole in Canada’s tariff wall. Federal officials on Monday confirmed negotiations have concluded on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, now billed as “the largest, most ambitious free trade initiative in history.” The

Visitors to Newest Poultry Farms Inc. don protective footwear on Open Farm Day.

Opinion

Opinion: How open is Open Farm Day?

Livestock industry is risking its social licence

By Shannon VanRaes October 5, 2015

In many ways, Open Farm Day is an oxymoron. As much as it tries to help the public understand modern farming, it often reinforces just how inaccessible it has become. Lured by the promise of a chicken farmer’s barn and broilers, I headed out early on Sept. 20 to see the only poultry operation on

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 5, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters –– Trailing in second place with two weeks left before Canada’s election, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new trade deal Monday that largely protects the key agricultural voting bloc, putting pressure on opponents who had hoped to have more to attack. Harper touted the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a good deal

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, shown here in February in Brampton, Ont., said farmers and processors would be “compensated” for losses incurred through any increased market access granted under a TPP deal. (Agr.gc.ca)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel September 30, 2015

Reuters — Canadian farmers will receive government compensation for any losses resulting from a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the country’s agriculture minister said Wednesday in a discussion about the nation’s protected farm sectors. The U.S., New Zealand and Australia want Canada to start dismantling a system of supply and import controls over dairy, poultry

A baby chick, genetically modified to block transmission of bird flu, glows under an ultraviolet light, next to a chick that has not been modified, in this undated handout photo.

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Glow-in-the-dark GMO chickens shed light on bird flu fight

But these birds are a long ways from becoming commercialized

By Tom Polansek September 21, 2015

In the realm of avian research, the chicks with the glow-in-the-dark beaks and feet might one day rock the poultry world. British scientists say they have genetically modified chickens in a bid to block bird flu and that early experiments show promise for fighting off the disease that has devastated the U.S. poultry and egg

Daily Network News

Feed grain weekly: Barley bids rise with crude and corn

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Egg Farmers of Canada sees more hens, greater egg demand in 2025

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