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Letters – for Jun. 17, 2010

June 17, 2010

Horses, not breeders, need protection With all due respect, I will continue to convince the government that action is needed to protect horses, not horse breeders as proposed by Betty Coulthard in the June 10 opinion article “Government action needed to protect horse breeders.” She wants compensation from the government for the losses she will

Livestock, News

Study Suggests Livestock Traceability Deadline Unrealistic

By Ron Friesen June 3, 2010

“This could be the demise of livestock marketing as we know it today.” – BOB PERLICH, LETHBRIDGE Ever since the federal government announced 2011 as the deadline for a national livestock traceability system, Canada’s cattle industry has insisted the technology at auction markets isn’t up to the task. A new study agrees that radio frequency

Hogs, Livestock

Swine Traceability Gets Financial Boost

By Ron Friesen May 20, 2010

The Canadian pork industry is on track to meet a 2011 deadline for a national livestock traceability system, thanks in part to a $3.3-million federal cash injection. The money is part of a $15-million industry package announced by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz at a news conference last week. The program will also spend $9.5 million

Livestock, Other livestock

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

Livestock

Traceability Target Date Unchanged

By Ron Friesen March 18, 2010

Canada remains committed to national livestock traceability, even though Canadian cattle producers want some slack and the United States is backpedalling on its own traceability program. Plans for a traceability system in 2011 are unchanged, despite recent developments in the U. S., Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said. “Our government remains committed to working with industry

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Potential Benefits From Livestock ID

By Kevin Hursh February 25, 2010

Here in Canada, we’re enhancing our livestock identification programs. Individual cattle ID with radio frequency eartags (RFID), age verification, premise ID, animal movement records – about the only thing that isn’t planned is a GPS locator attached to each individual animal. Incredibly, American efforts for a National Animal Identification System are back to Square 1.

Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 25, 2010

February 25, 2010

Serve domestic markets first The recent federal commitment to spend up to $6 million to eradicate disease, enhance traceability and improve on-farm food safety practices in the sheep and goat industry directs all monetary support to directions that will ultimately not benefit the sheep and goat producer – only sectors trading for export. What we

News

U. S. Will Narrow Scope Of Livestock-Tracking Plan

By Charles Abbott February 11, 2010

The government will redraft its moribund livestock-tracking program, attacked as a violation of privacy, so it covers only animals that cross state lines, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Feb. 5. In a speech to state agriculture directors, Vilsack said the revamped system would be run by states, with the Agriculture Department bearing much of the

Livestock, Other livestock

Sheep And Goat Industry Receive $6 Million

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 11, 2010

The federal government is investing $6 million in Canada’s sheep and goat industry to help with disease eradication, enhance traceability and improve on-farm food safety practices. “As Canada begins to show signs of economic recovery, the Government of Canada knows that the sheep and goat industry can deliver tremendous returns as it already brings in

Livestock

McDonald’s VP Hears Ranchers’ Beefs

By Daniel Winters December 24, 2009

The first rule of marketing is to know who the customer is and what they want. In the cattle business, that’s the buyers of burger meat, because up to 60 per cent of every steer that goes down the kill chute is eventually sold as hamburger. Out of last year’s beef crop, some 64 million

Daily Network News

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

JBS profit falls amid still-challenging US market environment

U.S. grains: Soy hits 17-month high, corn to four-month top as trade braces for U.S. data

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