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SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

The vacant pork slaughterhouse formerly known as Great Lakes Specialty Meats is now expected to restart as a turkey processing plant by year’s end. Meat processor Sofina Foods bought the 78,000-square foot plant and property at Mitchell, Ont., about 60 km west of Kitchener, for $4.77 million last September, after Great Lakes entered receivership in June.

Our History

Roto-Egg washer

Our History: February 1958

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 10, 2015

You could clean and sanitize up to 10 dozen eggs every three to five minutes with this Roto-Egg egg washer advertised in our Feb. 6, 1958 issue. Other ads in that issue remind of how many farmers raised poultry at that time. Swifts advertised chicks for New Sky-Hi 314A breed, averaging 289 white eggs per

Livestock

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters January 26, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– A California turkey farm has been quarantined after confirmation of the first case of an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza strain in the Pacific Northwest, and in a commercial flock, the U.S. government said. The news on Saturday came just weeks after China banned U.S. poultry after an

Livestock

Cargill to shutter U.S. turkey plant

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 9, 2015

Reuters — Agricultural conglomerate Cargill said Friday it will shutter its turkey and cooked meats processing plant in Springfield, Mo., and move the operations to Nebraska City, Nebraska, and Waco, Texas. Cargill said it will close its Springfield plant, which employs 118 people, on March 11. The decision came about after Cargill assessed its turkey

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

A stuffed turkey breast is a way to enjoy a Christmas food tradition if a whole bird is too much for your smaller brood

By Lorraine Stevenson December 29, 2014

If you have a big extended family squeezed around the dining table next week, you’re blessed. The large, blood-relative family event seems to be going the way of the grandfather clock. Many extended families don’t gather as they once did at Christmas. Part of the reason is family members live farther apart nowadays. They can

cooked turkey on a plate with vegetables

Country Crossroads

Food safety tips

Keep these tips in mind as you celebrate the holidays

By Health Canada Release December 24, 2014

Food is an important part of many celebrations. However, many of the foods found at holiday parties, such as baked goods, eggnog, cider, seafood and turkey, can carry viruses, bacteria or parasites that could cause foodborne illness. Health Canada would like to remind all Canadians of some basic steps they can take to help reduce

Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

A stuffed turkey breast is a way to enjoy a Christmas food  tradition if a whole bird is too much for your smaller brood 

By Lorraine Stevenson December 19, 2014

If you have a big extended family squeezed around the dining table next week, you’re blessed. The large, blood-relative family event seems to be going the way of the grandfather clock. Many extended families don’t gather as they once did at Christmas. Part of the reason is family members live farther apart nowadays. They can

Livestock

Two Fraser Valley farms quarantined with H5 avian flu

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 2, 2014

Federal officials have quarantined a turkey farm and a broiler breeder farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley after both were confirmed with outbreaks of an H5 strain of avian influenza. The quarantines, announced Tuesday, follow death losses of “over half” of the 11,000 birds at the turkey farm near Abbotsford, and of about 1,000 of

Mentoring food and business skills among a younger generation, and closer connection to consumers are some of the benefits that will come from improving the business environment for smaller-scale direct marketers, said proponents at MAFRD-hosted consultations across Manitoba. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

Livestock, News, Poultry

Small-scale producers want regs re-evaluated

Supply management limits and restrictions on advertising were among the concerns

By Meghan Mast August 21, 2014

Producers attending public consultations on small-scale food production last week had a consistent message — the current system prohibits their success, and food safety rules and regulations need to be re-evaluated. Not everyone is so lucky. Monika Zinn, a small-scale mixed-livestock producer in Springfield, raises and directly markets chickens. She was not grandfathered. She said

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SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

Roto-Egg washer

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

Cargill to shutter U.S. turkey plant

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

Food safety tips

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

Two Fraser Valley farms quarantined with H5 avian flu

Small-scale producers want regs re-evaluated

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