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Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Indiana

By Country Guide Staff January 18, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cross-border travellers coming into Canada from the U.S. are now warned against bringing in raw poultry and eggs from Indiana, the site of the country’s latest cases of avian flu. Travellers entering Canada from the U.S. may not bring in uncooked poultry products, live birds and/or eggs from Indiana, North Dakota or Missouri, the Canadian […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

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

By Tom Polansek January 15, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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, […] Read more

Mondelez’s brands in Canada include Oreo cookies, which marked their 100th anniversary with this giant replica unveiled in 2012 in Toronto. (CNW Group/Kraft Canada)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Snack maker Mondelez plans for cage-free eggs by 2020

By Reuters January 15, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Mondelez International, the maker of Cadbury chocolates and Oreo cookies, said it would stop using eggs laid by caged hens for its products sold in Canada and the U.S. by 2020. Formed in 2012 by Kraft Foods’ spinoff of its grocery business, including the Christie and Nabisco cookie and cracker lines, Mondelez joins […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. cracks down on intake of added sugar, saturated fat

By Julie Steenhuysen January 8, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Chicago | Reuters — New U.S. dietary guidelines on Thursday urged Americans to cut their added sugar and saturated fat intake to less than 10 per cent of daily calories, but consumer advocates criticized the recommendations for not providing clear guidance on the need to reduce consumption of meat. The government guidelines, which are issued […] Read more

California’s Department of Water Resources gauges the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains through manual surveys, such as this one in late December 2004. (Paul Hames photo, copyright California Department of Water Resources)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Deep snow in California mountains offers hope in drought

By Sharon Bernstein December 31, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — A cold, wet start to California’s winter has dumped nearly five feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, state water experts said Wednesday, fuelling hope that 2016 will bring enough precipitation to help offset four years of drought. Snow surveyors headed to the mountains in Phillips near Lake Tahoe on Wednesday for […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Subway to switch to cage-free eggs by 2025

By Reuters December 28, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Sandwich chain Subway said it would stop using eggs laid by caged hens in its North American outlets by 2025, joining a number of companies that are going cage-free amid pressure from consumers and animal-rights groups. Subway, which already serves eggs laid by free-range hens at its outlets in Europe and eggs laid […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Nestle to switch to cage-free eggs in U.S. by 2020

By Anjali Athavaley December 22, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes New York | Reuters –– Nestle said Tuesday it will stop using eggs laid by caged hens in its U.S. products by 2020, making it the largest packaged food company to go cage-free amid pressure from consumers and animal-rights groups. The world’s largest food maker said it uses about 20 million pounds of eggs annually […] Read more

The WTO’s director-general, Roberto Azevedo, and Kenya’s cabinet secretary for foreign affairs and international trade, Amina Mohamed, close the fifth day of the WTO ministerial conference in Nairobi. (Photo courtesy Admedia Communication, copyright WTO)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

WTO backs agricultural reforms, split on Doha

By Edith Honan December 20, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nairobi | Reuters — The World Trade Organization reached deals on agricultural export subsidies, food aid and other issues on Saturday, capping a ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital where rich and poor countries had been split over the path of trade reform. Members said the Nairobi deal had drawn a line under years of […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada seen dawdling on TPP ratification

By David Ljunggren, Krista Hughes December 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canada is set to hold back on ratifying a key Asia-Pacific trade treaty, a move that would assuage critics but might hamper Washington’s bid to build domestic support for the deal, according to sources close to the talks. Canada is one of 12 nations that initialed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in early October, […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery

Alberta’s farm worker bill passes, with tweaks

By Country Guide Staff December 12, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes A more specific version of the Alberta government’s bill to extend workers’ comp and OHS regulations to paid farm workers has cleared the legislature. Bill 6, the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act, passed third reading 44-29 Thursday. It received royal assent Friday, after the legislature adjourned until Feburary. But the bill, as […] Read more

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Eggs

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Indiana

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

Snack maker Mondelez plans for cage-free eggs by 2020

U.S. cracks down on intake of added sugar, saturated fat

Deep snow in California mountains offers hope in drought

Subway to switch to cage-free eggs by 2025

Nestle to switch to cage-free eggs in U.S. by 2020

WTO backs agricultural reforms, split on Doha

Canada seen dawdling on TPP ratification

Alberta’s farm worker bill passes, with tweaks

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