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Feedlots sought to take in TB-quarantined cattle

Prairie cattle producers whose herds are stuck under federal quarantine while officials trace out cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) could soon have a option to house animals at an approved feedlot. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday said it is working with beef cattle industry representatives to find one or more feedlots where it

Beef cattle, Livestock

Federal Tories, NDP press for TB quarantine compensation

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 24, 2016

Under pressure in the Commons Tuesday, the federal government has committed to “look into options” to compensate Alberta and Saskatchewan producers having to feed cattle they’re prohibited from selling. Federal Conservative and NDP agriculture critics David Anderson and Ruth Ellen Brosseau separately took the government to task this week over the costs producers have to

Beef cattle, Livestock

Ranchers under quarantine fear going ‘broke by spring’

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel November 22, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Ranchers in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan whose herds are under quarantine due to the spread of bovine tuberculosis told federal legislators Tuesday they desperately need to sell cattle or receive compensation to avoid financial disaster. Ranchers who raise calves typically sell them in autumn to feedlots, where they are fattened

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB quarantines push into Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 14, 2016

Two farms in southwestern Saskatchewan have been added to the list of those under federal quarantine as inspectors widen their search for cattle exposed to a new-to-Canada strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB). As of Thursday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it had “approximately 33” farms in Alberta and two in Saskatchewan under quarantine. The

Livestock

Avian flu quarantine ends for Ontario duck farm

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 3, 2016

A federal quarantine has been lifted for a duck farm near St. Catharines, Ont. where birds were confirmed in July with low-pathogenicity (“low-path”) avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has reported the quarantine was lifted effective Sept. 20, at the end of a 21-day waiting period after the commercial-scale farm was depopulated, cleaned and

Crops

China raps Ottawa as dispute over canola exports deepens

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News August 25, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — A dispute over $2 billion worth of Canadian canola exports to China intensified on Thursday when Beijing criticized Ottawa’s insistence that bilateral relations could not improve until the matter is settled. The situation threatens to mar Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to China next week. “We oppose linking a concrete

Livestock

Flu controls lifted on Ontario duck farm’s neighbours

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 19, 2016

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has lifted a three-kilometre avian flu control zone around a duck farm in Ontario’s Niagara region, freeing up traffic on and off neighbouring farms. All but one of the commercial and non-commercial farms in the control zone were released from quarantine effective Tuesday and will no longer need licensing for

Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Markets

Egypt tightens import quarantine rules on grains

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 16, 2016

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt has tightened its agriculture quarantine regulations, imposing a rule that will prevent grain shipments suspected of contamination from being offloaded until they receive test results, according to a letter sent to traders Monday. The rule comes just one month after the world’s biggest wheat buyer discontinued its controversial zero tolerance

Crops, Markets

Egypt quarantine authority to ban ergot until new laws passed

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 8, 2016

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s agriculture quarantine authority will continue to apply a zero ergot policy on wheat shipments until new legislation is issued, the new head of the authority told Reuters on Tuesday. Former quarantine chief Saad Moussa’s zero-tolerance policy on common grains fungus ergot resulted in shipments to the world’s biggest importer of

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Canadian wheat rejected in Egypt re-exported to Europe

By GFM Network News, Maha El Dahan March 3, 2016

Abu Dhabi | Reuters — A shipment of Canadian wheat rejected in Egypt over concerns it contained traces of ergot has been re-exported to Europe after Egypt’s agricultural quarantine rejected a petition from the supplier, trade sources said Thursday. Egypt’s quarantine authority has rejected a series of wheat shipments over traces of the common grain

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Quarantine

Feedlots sought to take in TB-quarantined cattle

Federal Tories, NDP press for TB quarantine compensation

Ranchers under quarantine fear going ‘broke by spring’

Bovine TB quarantines push into Saskatchewan

Avian flu quarantine ends for Ontario duck farm

China raps Ottawa as dispute over canola exports deepens

Flu controls lifted on Ontario duck farm’s neighbours

Egypt tightens import quarantine rules on grains

Egypt quarantine authority to ban ergot until new laws passed

Canadian wheat rejected in Egypt re-exported to Europe

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