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Que. pledges reserve to backstop risk management programs

Quebec’s agriculture ministry plans to set up a $300 million reserve fund to backstop any sudden shortfalls in provincial risk management program funds for farmers. Speaking Thursday to the provincial pork producer group, Les Eleveurs de porcs du Quebec, Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis said the province will set up the reserve over the next two

Opinion

Editorial: More to TPP than milk and eggs

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and what a deal could mean for Canadian producers

By John Morriss May 18, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement now under negotiation involves 12 of the world’s largest economies, and has been described as “NAFTA on steroids.” What’s holding it up? Canadian dairy farmers. Or so you’d think about reading some of the national and international media coverage. Some of it made us think of the coverage of

Hogs, Livestock

Farrowing barn is Quebec’s ninth PED case

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 13, 2015

Animal health officials in Quebec’s Monteregie have confirmed three more hog operations with cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) since Friday. The province’s swine health team (EQSP) said Friday it had confirmed PED in hogs at a 2,700-head nursery operation at St-Aime, with an epidemiological link to the province’s sixth case at a nearby nursery

Hogs, Livestock

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 8, 2015

Another nursery barn in Quebec’s Monteregie is the site of the province’s sixth case of porcine epidemic diarrhea in hogs, provincial officials said Thursday. The infections were confirmed Wednesday through lab tests on fecal samples from a 5,000-hog operation at St-Aime, about 30 km southeast of Sorel, Quebec’s provincial swine health team (EQSP) said in

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Hogs, Livestock

Two more Que. hog operations confirmed with PED

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 7, 2015

Two more hog operations in Quebec’s Monteregie — a nursery operation and a finishing barn — have been confirmed infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). Quebec’s provincial swine health team (EQSP) announced Wednesday that the two new cases — both in the St-Denis-sur-Richelieu area, about 25 km northwest of St-Hyacinthe — are “epidemiologically linked” to

Hogs, Livestock

Hog nursery barn Quebec’s third PED case

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 7, 2015

A hog nursery operation in Quebec’s Monteregie was confirmed Dec. 31 as the province’s third case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Quebec has previously booked two cases of on-farm outbreaks of the PED virus (PEDv) — both at hog finishing operations in the Monteregie in February and November 2014 respectively. The latest case

Crops, Markets

Que. complying with, appealing AIT ruling on edible oil products

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 10, 2014

Quebec has amended its rules on sales of vegetable oil-based dairy products, but is still appealing the ruling that led to the amendments, the Saskatchewan government reports. Amendments to Quebec’s Food Products Act last week have loosened laws that have effectively banned sales in Quebec of edible oil dairy substitutes, such as some margarines and

man standing beside hay-baling machinery

Crops, Forages

VIDEO: Quebec haymakers use homemade dryer to improve hay quality

The Normandins also modified a small hay baler to convert big square bales into small ones

By Allan Dawson December 8, 2014

David Normandin and his brother Mathieu preferred driving tractors to milking cows and that’s why they make hay and not milk. The brothers, along with their father Luc and Luc’s partner’s daughter, Audrey Mailloux, operate Norfoin Inc., 57 km southeast of Montreal in the Montérégie region of la belle province. The operation had been a

Equipment such as this offal blow tank at Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex plant was sold to buyers onsite and online on Dec. 2. (BidSpotter.com)

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Shuttered Que. beef plant’s equipment sold

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 5, 2014

The chance of a rescue for Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant has passed, now that the facility’s equipment has been sold off piecemeal at auction. Provincial investment financing agency Investissement Quebec and other creditors still own the Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region. But the plant’s receivers sold its equipment to a consortium of

Hogs, Livestock

Quebec turns up second case of PEDv in hogs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 7, 2014

Quebec has confirmed its second instance of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs, this time at a feeding operation in the Monteregie district. Biosecurity measures have been ramped up “promptly” at the unnamed farm to avoid the spread of the PED virus (PEDv) to other hog operations, the provincial ag ministry said in a release

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Que. pledges reserve to backstop risk management programs

Editorial: More to TPP than milk and eggs

Farrowing barn is Quebec’s ninth PED case

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

Two more Que. hog operations confirmed with PED

Hog nursery barn Quebec’s third PED case

Que. complying with, appealing AIT ruling on edible oil products

VIDEO: Quebec haymakers use homemade dryer to improve hay quality

Shuttered Que. beef plant’s equipment sold

Quebec turns up second case of PEDv in hogs

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