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| Canada wins COOL decision vs. U.S. |
| Source: OntarioFarmer.com |
| Date: 04-Jul-2012 |
| The World Trade Organization has upheld Canada’s challenge against the way the United States implemented mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) in 2008.
There is no avenue of further appeal, so the United States will have to change its COOL regulations.
The Canadian Pork Council estimates COOL cost hog farmers $1.4 billion because the price of Canadian hogs was depressed.
Packers an... (read more on OntarioFarmer.com) |
| Report critical of COOL |
| Source: PEIcanada.com |
| Date: 03-Jul-2012 |
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Complicated U.S. food labeling mandates on beef and pork impede trade between the U.S. and Canada without providing any real benefit to consumers, a new report shows.
The report, co-published by the Fraser Institute in Canada and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, explains how Mandatory Country-of-Origin (MCOOL) labeling laws have resulted in a drastic reduction in meat exports to the U.S.... (read more on PEIcanada.com) |
| All classes of cattle sold on a strong, active trade |
| Source: OntarioFarmer.com |
| Date: 03-Jul-2012 |
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Ontario Farm Market Summary for Friday, June 29
* REPLACEMENT CATTLE: There were 1,000 head on offer at Brussels. All classes of cattle sold on a strong, active trade.
Large & medium steers over 900 lbs: $131.16 - $144.20
Large & medium steers 700-800 lbs: $119.00 - $165.00
Large & medium steers 500-600 lbs: $160.00 - $199.00
Large & medium heifers over 80... (read more on OntarioFarmer.com) |
| BAAA! |
| Source: atlanticfarmfocus.ca |
| Date: 29-Jun-2012 |
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Central North River, NS — It's all blue skies and sunshine on this day as Ruth Mathewson strolls across her rolling, deep green pastureland amid a flock of bleating sheep.
For certain, this is a far cry from the concrete jungle and skyscraper city she left a few years ago but, there can be no doubt, she is now fully immersed into her lifestyle and is pure farmer now.
And from the cont... (read more on atlanticfarmfocus.ca) |
| Controlling Insects, Rodents for Healthy Livestock |
| Source: TheDairySite.com |
| Date: 28-Jun-2012 |
| Successfully preventing and eliminating flies and mice in livestock and poultry operations is crucial to maintaining animal health and productivity, says a Purdue University entomologist.
Cattle in both pasture and confinement situations are affected by flies, as are poultry, said Ralph Williams.
Bloodsucking flies literally drain animals' lifeblood, and all flies can transmit diseases,... (read more on TheDairySite.com) |
| Canadian Cattle Herd Rebuilding |
| Source: TheBeefSite.com |
| Date: 26-Jun-2012 |
| While cow meat production in Canada seasonally hits an annual low in June and July, cow slaughter over the past six weeks has declined below year ago levels, with Canadian cow-calf operators’ continuing rebuilding efforts.
Canadian cow slaughter from 28 April through to 9 June 2012 declined 7.6 per cent year-on-year and 28 per cent below the five-year average, while total steer and heifer slaug... (read more on TheBeefSite.com) |
| Local youth hone their 4-H skills during dairy, beef showcase |
| Source: Truro Daily News |
| Date: 25-Jun-2012 |
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BIBLE HILL, NS - Taylor Masters took a moment to relax during a stressful weekend by cuddling up to a special friend.
The 14-year-old Old Barns teenager was one of about a dozen Colchester County youth who participated in the 23rd annual EastGen 4-H Showcase on the weekend at Agridome in Bible Hill. About 85 Atlantic 4-H beef and dairy members between the ages of 13 and 21 learned the latest ... (read more on Truro Daily News) |
| Consumers want antibiotic-free meat |
| Source: OntarioFarmer.com |
| Date: 25-Jun-2012 |
| A survey by Consumer Reports magazine indicates the public wants meat that’s free of antibiotics.
Just as the controversy over sow gestation crates is passing a peak, this has all the ear-marks of a similar campaign against the use of subtherapeutic (growth promotant) dosages of antibiotics to improve feed conversion and growth rates of livestock and poultry.
Consumers Union, which is the l... (read more on OntarioFarmer.com) |
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| Trade dispute with Korea dropped |
| Source: AgriSuccessExpress |
| Date: 25-Jun-2012 |
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Ottawa is dropping its trade challenge to South Korea's ban on Canadian beef imports.
Trade Minister Ed Fast said Monday he has instructed officials to drop the challenge at the World Trade Organization because Korea restored access in January.
South Korea banned imports of Canadian beef after the 2003 outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.
But Fast says since the li... (read more on AgriSuccessExpress) |
| N.S. invests $25 million in fish farm |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca, by B. Medel |
| Date: 22-Jun-2012 |
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SHELBURNE, NS — It wasn’t only warm sunshine on the first full day of summer that put smiles on faces here Thursday.
Premier Darrell Dexter’s announcement that hundreds of new jobs would be coming to the Shelburne area and other parts of Nova Scotia had folks cheering.
Dexter’s government announced a $25-million investment to help Cooke Aquaculture grow in the province.
Cooke already em... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| NB: Farm owners coping with loss of thousands of animals |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 22-Jun-2012 |
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[NASHWAAK VILLAGE, NB] — Thousands of animals, mostly chickens, died Sunday after fires broke out at two New Brunswick farms.
The RCMP say some 9,500 chickens were killed at a poultry farm in Saint-Francois, in northwestern New Brunswick.
Police say it's not yet known what caused the fire, which destroyed a building that housed a chicken nursery.
Another fire at a farm near Frederi... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| Canada's Verified Beef Production program continues solid growth |
| Source: Submitted, by Verified Beef Production |
| Date: 21-Jun-2012 |
| Canada's on farm food safety program for beef, the Verified Beef Production (VBP) program, continues to attract strong beef producer participation across the country. That is good news for the national beef industry which is aggressively building its international brand on buyer confidence.
"Both the participation levels and the trends they represent are important," says Terry Gr... (read more) |
| Halal standards reject machines |
| Source: OntarioFarmer.com |
| Date: 21-Jun-2012 |
| Forty Islamic scholars in the United Kingdom’s have unanimously rejected the machine slaughter of animals.
That presents a challenge to the meat industry, especially poultry processors where 3.5 million chickens are slaughtered by machines and 1.2 million by hand.
In Ontario, CAMI International Poultry Inc. of Welland is one of the only poultry processing plants that hand-slaughters Halal c... (read more on OntarioFarmer.com) |
| U.S. hog farmers lobby Canadians |
| Source: OntarioFarmer.com |
| Date: 20-Jun-2012 |
| The National Pork Producers Council, which speaks for U.S. hog farmers, is lobbying Canadian politicians to end subsidies before gaining access to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks.
The Americans met with both federal and provincial officials this week to press their lobby.
They claim that if similar subsidies were implemented in the U.S., production would double in 10 years.
... (read more on OntarioFarmer.com) |
| Another suspected salmon infection probed at Cooke Aquaculture |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca, by B. Erskine |
| Date: 20-Jun-2012 |
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating another suspected outbreak of infectious salmon anemia at a Cooke Aquaculture operation in Nova Scotia.
“I can confirm another investigation in an aquaculture operation in Nova Scotia,” agency spokesman Guy Gravelle said Tuesday in an interview from Ottawa.
Gravelle wouldn’t comment on details of the investigation, including who the aqua... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| New Dung Beetle Improves Cattle Pastures |
| Source: TheDairySite.com |
| Date: 19-Jun-2012 |
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AUSTRALIA - Two new species of European dung beetles chosen for their spring frenzy and voracious appetite have arrived in Australia to improve cattle pastures.
Collected in the south of France, Onthophagus vacca and Bubas bubalus are the first new species of dung beetles imported in more than 20 years through a project led by CSIRO and supported by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).
“The... (read more on TheDairySite.com) |
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