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Ernie Hardeman, the Ontario Tories’ agriculture and food critic, will now handle rural affairs as part of his critic portfolio. The Tories’ new leader, Tim Hudak, announced the move when introducing his new shadow cabinet Monday. As rural affairs critic, Hardeman replaces Perth-area MPP Randy Hillier, who was named Monday as the opposition critic for[...]

The pandemic flu strain H1N1 has crossed over to hogs in various areas of Manitoba, causing only "very mild" effects in assorted feeder barns, nursery barns and sow barns. The Manitoba agriculture department's chief veterinary officer, Dr. Wayne Lees, delivered that assessment last week on ProMed, an online archive operated by the Massachusetts-based International Society[...]

The annual round of federal drought designations, which provides income tax deferrals for ranchers in affected areas, starts off this year with 26 jurisdictions in Alberta and 76 rural municipalities in Saskatchewan. Ranchers in the municipalities designated by the federal government can defer a portion of tax owing on income from breeding stock sold due[...]

University of Illinois researchers mapping the cattle genome say that of the genes mapped so far, 83 per cent could be identified as identical to human genes."The comparative map has enormous predictive power," lead researcher Harris Lewin, director of the W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics at the University of Illinois said in[...]

The federal government's plan to diversify regions of British Columbia where infestations of mountain pine beetle have hit the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for the Cariboo-Central Interior Poultry Producers[...]

The Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA) expects to be better able to form industry-government partnerships now that it's incorporated, the agency said Monday. The agency, which reports to provincial Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld, got its incorporation status Monday. "This is an important step in creating a successful partnership with industry and transitioning to a[...]

Canada's former chief NAFTA negotiator and the operations manager for a well-known Calgary-area ranch are the newest board members for the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency. Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld named John Weekes and Cherie Copithorne-Barnes to ALMA's board on Monday. "Their combined experience in international trade and beef production systems, in both Alberta and[...]

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed two more fatal cases of anthrax in cattle in two different communities in Saskatchewan. The most recent case was confirmed Monday in the Rural Municipality of Big River, about 130 km northwest of Prince Albert. CFIA also confirmed a case on Saturday in the RM of Harris, about[...]

The federal government needs to release its plan now for food safety inspections in Canada, without worrying about the "communications risks" involved in releasing it, the federal Liberals said Wednesday. News reports in the past week have stated that a Canadian Food Inspection Agency biologist has been sacked after finding confidential documents outlining such a[...]