Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Hog farmers in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan will have the opportunity to join a producer co-operative looking to buy a controlling interest in a hog slaughter plant in Minot, N.D. That’s according to Daryl Dukart, general manager of the Cloverdale Growers’ Alliance Co-operative (CGAC), a group of producers from North Dakota, […] Read more
Prairie hog farmers can buy into N.D. hog plant
Ont. winter wheat poised for excellent yields
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Ideal weather conditions through the fall planting season and winter thus far are reason to believe that this year’s Ontario winter wheat crop has excellent yield potential, according to an industry specialist. Peter Johnson, provincial cereal specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), said weather conditions […] Read more
COOL legislation remains a mystery
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government’s plans this fall for mandatory country-of-origin-labelling (COOL) continues to confound the Canadian livestock industry, a sector already reeling from the effects of higher costs and lower prices. Mandatory COOL “is still being debated and how it actually ends up in its final stage will be hard […] Read more
Beef, cattle export outlook mixed
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Resource News International) — Exports of Canadian beef to the U.S. are expected to remain steady or decline slightly in 2008, whereas beef exports to other key markets are expected to increase, according to industry watchers. Live cattle exports, meanwhile, are expected to remain steady. Andrea Brocklebank, research analyst with CanFax, a division of the […] Read more
Hog outlook: Industry crisis may spur decline
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Resource News International) — The Canadian hog industry may lose some of its best producers if the crisis now facing the industry continues, according to Clare Schlegel, president of the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) in Ottawa. In two to three years’ time, Schlegel said, he anticipates the Canadian hog industry will have declined. The CPC […] Read more
Grain Act changes leave questions unanswered
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — The federal government’s recent announcement that it plans to modernize both the Canada Grain Act (CGA) and the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) is being met with scepticism among farmers, who say there are too many unanswered questions as to what the amendments will mean for producers. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz recently […] Read more
Alta. counties aggressively address clubroot
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Counties in Alberta are implementing aggressive measures designed to address the growing clubroot infestation in canola, according to crop specialists with Alberta Agriculture and Food. Although clubroot appears to be spreading rapidly, Harry Brook, a crop specialist with the provincial Ag Info Centre in Stettler, pointed out that as awareness increases, […] Read more
StatsCan production numbers lower than expected
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — The main surprise in the updated grain and oilseed production survey from Statistics Canada, released Thursday, is that production levels for five major crop varieties were lowered. Mike Jubinville, a farm consultant with ProFarmer Canada in Winnipeg, said, “It’s a surprise across the board. I don’t get the sense that the […] Read more
India’s pulse demand is Canadian exporters’ gain
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — As India’s demand for pulses grows in coming years, Canadian exports are expected to increase accordingly, according to Carl Potts of Pulse Canada, and that increase may support prices. Canada is India’s largest supplier of pulse crops — legumes such as peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas and fababeans — and stands to […] Read more
Cattlemen cautiously optimistic border will stay open
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is cautiously optimistic that a U.S. rancher group’s latest bid to halt the import of older Canadian cattle won’t succeed. The most recent move by the U.S. cattle group Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF USA) began just days before “Rule 2” took effect. Rule 2 refers […] Read more
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