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Saputo to consolidate U.S. cheesemaking, shut three plants

Plans include one new plant, one repurposed

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 9, 2023

The Canadian company ranked among the three biggest cheesemakers in the U.S. is preparing to consolidate five of its cheese plants in that country down to two. Montreal-based Saputo announced last Thursday it has construction underway on a new $240 million cut-and-wrap cheese plant in the Milwaukee suburb of Franklin, to be up and running

Canadian ginseng, whose shipments to Hong Kong have plummeted since COVID-19 infections peaked in Canada this spring and travel restrictions took effect, is seen in southwestern Ontario’s Norfolk County in this undated photograph. (Handout photo courtesy Helen Mels via Reuters)

Crops

Ginseng piling up in Canada despite Chinese demand

Travel restrictions depress new-crop sales

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel September 30, 2020

Winnipeg/Hong Kong | Reuters — The pandemic’s crushing effect on international travel has grounded Canadian exports of ginseng, a root widely used in Asia to treat everything from the common cold to impotency, at a time when health is top of consumers’ minds. Canada is the world’s second-largest ginseng exporter after China, with most of

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks April 18 at Snap-on Tools’ headquarters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Video screengrab from Whitehouse.gov)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Trump vows to back U.S. dairy farmers in Canada trade spat

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel April 18, 2017

Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to defend U.S. dairy farmers who have been hurt by Canada’s protectionist trade practices, during a visit to the cheese-making state of Wisconsin. Canada’s dairy sector is protected by high tariffs on imported products and controls on domestic production as a means of supporting prices that

Livestock

Low-path bird flu turns up in Wisconsin turkeys

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 7, 2017

Paris | Reuters — The U.S. has reported an outbreak of avian flu on a farm in Wisconsin, the second in the country in less than a week although the virus found this time is considered less virulent, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. A strain of low-pathogenic H5N2 avian flu

Photo taken on July 28, 2015 from NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 showing algal blooms on Lake Erie.

Comment

Going against the flow on water quality issues

Strong leadership is needed to address problem of deteriorating water quality

By Alan Guebert August 5, 2015

As summer heats up so too will agriculture’s ongoing water quality problems. On July 10, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that Lake Erie’s algal bloom will be “more severe in 2015” due to “historic rains in June.” On a scale of 1 to 10, forecasts NOAA, this year’s bloom will be 8.7,

Hogs, News

Shipping manure by underground pipeline considered feasible

New study considers manure transport alternative

By Ron Friesen June 30, 2015

With an increasing number of railway spills causing environmental and human health risks, underground pipelines are touted as a safer way of transporting oil, natural gas and chemicals. Now, it appears, you could add manure to the list. A new study suggests it might be possible in Manitoba to send 60 million gallons of liquid

Our History

Southwest Manitoba goes from dry to drenched

Our History: June 1999

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 4, 2015

Manitoba’s southwest has historically been considered a bit on the dry side, but that reputation was beginning to change in 1999. Our June 3 issue featured several stories on dealing with that year’s deluge. Many farmers were said to be seeding from hilltop to hilltop, aerial sprayers were hoping for federal government approval to apply

Livestock, Markets

Iowa reports biggest single U.S. outbreak of bird flu

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 22, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– Iowa, the top U.S. egg-producing state, found a lethal strain of bird flu in millions of hens at an egg-laying facility on Monday, the worst case so far in a national outbreak that prompted Wisconsin to declare a state of emergency. The infected Iowa birds were being raised near the city

Livestock

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from N.D., Wisconsin, Iowa

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 15, 2015

The list of U.S. jurisdictions from which travellers can’t bring live poultry, eggs or raw poultry products into Canada is now three states longer. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Tuesday announced new restrictions on such products from North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, following confirmed cases of H5N2 avian flu this week at commercial poultry

Livestock, Markets

Zone coverage set up around SW Ont. avian flu site

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

The only farm in Canada now in the midst of an avian flu cleanup is the centre of a new control zone, meant to limit the flu’s spread and keep Canada’s trading partners at ease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Sunday announced it has set up an avian flu control zone, which so

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

Daily Network News

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

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Saputo to consolidate U.S. cheesemaking, shut three plants

Ginseng piling up in Canada despite Chinese demand

Trump vows to back U.S. dairy farmers in Canada trade spat

Low-path bird flu turns up in Wisconsin turkeys

Going against the flow on water quality issues

Shipping manure by underground pipeline considered feasible

Southwest Manitoba goes from dry to drenched

Iowa reports biggest single U.S. outbreak of bird flu

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from N.D., Wisconsin, Iowa

Zone coverage set up around SW Ont. avian flu site

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