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Reading Time: < 1 minute Former Alberta Farmer Express editor Janet Kanters is the new stakeholder communications manager for the Beef Information Centre (BIC). BIC, with offices in Calgary and Mississauga, is the beef market development division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. Kanters, the Alberta farm newspaper’s editor from June 2006 to November 2007, has previously worked for Alberta’s provincial […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes A major beef packing plant sale that would create “one of the most concentrated markets in the North American food system” shouldn’t be allowed to go ahead without major concessions, the National Farmers Union urged Tuesday. U.S. meat giant Tyson Foods announced last month it will sell its Lakeside Farm Industries plant at Brooks, Alta., […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Don Dixon, the retired head of the Manitoba agriculture department’s crops branch, has been named chairman of the Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative. Dixon, who recently retired from the provincial government after 30 years, began work with the department as the provincial apiarist and held several management positions before heading the crops branch based at […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Maple Leaf Foods has started up the formal process to sell Ontario’s largest pork plant before the end of the year. The Toronto food company’s pork processing plant at Burlington, near Hamilton, now employs about 1,200 people processing about 42,000 hogs per week, about 16 per cent below its capacity of 50,000. “Our Burlington, Ont. […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute There’s still time for hog producers who might want to downsize their herds or exit the business to apply for federal funds to cull breeding hogs, the Canadian Pork Council said last week. In a release Thursday, the council said that as of July 11, roughly 500 applications to the federal cull breeding swine program […] Read more