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Tight chickpea supplies to limit Canadian acres

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 21, 2017

CNS Canada — Tight chickpea supplies will keep Canada from taking advantage of fresh demand out of Turkey, while any acreage increases will also be hampered by poor seed supply. Due to its own domestic chickpea shortage, Turkey recently announced it was temporarily lifting import tariffs on chickpeas. Turkey has bought Canadian chickpeas in the

Livestock

Maple Leaf to shut southern Ontario turkey plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 18, 2016

Maple Leaf Foods plans to outsource all its fresh turkey processing to another company’s southern Ontario plant in 2018 after shutting its own operation. The company announced Tuesday it will close its plant at Thamesford, Ont., east of London, after phasing its production over the next 18 months into Sofina Foods’ plant at Mitchell, about

Livestock

Cargill stops using human antibiotic against disease in turkeys

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek August 9, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. meat processor Cargill has stopped using an important antibiotic for people to prevent disease in turkeys, the company said Tuesday, the latest food maker to drop the drug amid concerns about the impact on human medicine. Cargill has not used the drug, gentamicin, to prevent disease in turkeys that supply

Canadian breeding cattle exports, such as these animals en route to Croatia by air in a CLGA file photo, now have access to Turkey. (CLiveGen.org)

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Breeding cattle get market access to Turkey

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 27, 2016

Exporters of Canadian breeding cattle expect to see another $4.5 million per year in business from a new agreement for market access to Turkey, according to the federal government. Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday announced an agreement with Turkey on export certificates for Canadian breeding cattle effective “immediately.”

Crops

Turkey bans ammonium nitrate sales after bomb attacks

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 10, 2016

Istanbul | Reuters — Turkey has banned the sale of fertilizers containing ammonium nitrate, which can be used in explosives, after at least half a dozen car bomb attacks this year, the agriculture minister said on Thursday. The move comes after 11 people including six police officers were killed on Tuesday in a car bomb

Phil Boyd, executive director of Turkey Farmers of Canada, speaks to producers during Manitoba Turkey Producers’ annual general meeting in Winnipeg.

News, Poultry

Processors under pressure to cut prices

An increase in production, coupled with less robust holiday sales, could translate into a quota reduction

By Shannon VanRaes March 15, 2016

Canadian turkey farmers could receive a belated lump of coal this spring, as reduced Christmas sales come home to roost. With 2015 closing stocks sitting at 19 million kilograms, Phil Boyd said a reduction in the national quota allotment is a possibility. Closing stocks in 2014 came in at 14.7 million kilograms. “What we’ve seen

Bill Uruski speaks to producers during Manitoba Turkey Producers’ annual general meeting in Winnipeg.

Livestock, Poultry

Turkey producers brace for TPP

Canadian turkey processors could export dark meat to Mexico under TPP,  but would have to overcome U.S. entrenchment first

By Shannon VanRaes March 14, 2016

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) loomed large last week, as the Manitoba Turkey Producers gathered in Winnipeg for its annual general meeting. “This is the most significant and serious issue that we as turkey farmers will be facing in the coming years,” said chairman Bill Uruski. Calvin McBain of the Turkey Farmers of Canada said when

Livestock

U.S. deploys new bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry

By GFM Network News, Julie Steenhuysen, Tom Polansek January 19, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farm and health officials are racing to assess the threat that a type of bird flu never before seen in the country poses to humans and poultry, employing emergency plans drawn up in the wake of a devastating outbreak in birds last year. The federal government sprang into action on

Livestock

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek January 15, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– An Indiana turkey flock has been infected with a deadly type of bird flu in the first new case of the disease in U.S. poultry since June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday. The flock in Dubois County, Indiana, was infected with a highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strain of H7N8,

Recipe Swap

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Prairie Fare: Chicken (Or Turkey) and Cranberry Salad

By Julie Garden-Robinson December 24, 2015

Through the years, I have worked with numerous “super-fit” student interns, graduate students and program assistants. They arrive at work bright eyed and report that they ran five miles, swam laps for an hour or biked several miles earlier that morning. Some of them exercise regardless of how cold the weather is. I look at

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tick down on supply numbers, year-end positioning

U.S. grains: Chicago grains and oilseeds fall as Black Sea, China headlines assessed

Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil

Tag Archives Turkey

Tight chickpea supplies to limit Canadian acres

Maple Leaf to shut southern Ontario turkey plant

Cargill stops using human antibiotic against disease in turkeys

Breeding cattle get market access to Turkey

Turkey bans ammonium nitrate sales after bomb attacks

Processors under pressure to cut prices

Turkey producers brace for TPP

U.S. deploys new bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

I pledge not to be a sloth this winter

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