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Feds launch consultations on Canada Grain Act

Review to run until April 30

By Dave Bedard January 15, 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal government is now officially canvassing the grains sector on upgrades to Canada’s grain regulatory system. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, speaking Tuesday to Saskatchewan crop organizations’ virtual CropSphere conference, announced the feds’ current Canada Grain Act review has entered its consultation stage, running until April 30. The government said it wants feedback from grain […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

China’s coronavirus testing chokes beef trade

Additional inspections, disinfections costly for importers

By Dominique Patton, Hallie Gu November 27, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes Beijing | Reuters — In a supermarket in downtown Beijing, refrigerator shelves normally filled with steak from around the world sit empty as tougher testing for the novel coronavirus creates supply bottlenecks and raises prices for importers. Fresh supplies of beef won’t arrive for days, a salesman at the Suning.com-owned Carrefour outlet told Reuters — […] Read more

Livestock

B.C. ag ministry to take over regulation for on-farm slaughter

Class D- and E-licensed sites to move to ag ministry oversight

By Dave Bedard August 20, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes British Columbia is set to consolidate all provincial-level meat inspection duties into its agriculture ministry — including the regulatory oversight for on-farm slaughter work. The province announced Wednesday that all slaughter work licensed under its Meat Inspection Regulation for Class A, B, D and E sites will now be regulated through the ag ministry, starting […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Alberta’s Harmony Beef halts slaughter on positive COVID-19 test

CFIA pulls inspectors after plant employee tests positive

By Kelsey Johnson, Rod Nickel March 27, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa/Winnipeg | Reuters — Harmony Beef, an Alberta packing plant, halted cattle slaughter on Friday after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) kept some inspectors from work, due to a positive test for COVID-19 by a Harmony worker, the company said. The partial closure follows a positive COVID-19 test by a worker at U.S. chicken […] Read more

Crops

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

By GFM Staff July 18, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute Geneva | Reuters — Swiss inspections group SGS plans to trim its workforce by 2,000 across about 120 countries in a process of natural attrition rather than sudden cuts or corporate restructuring, company spokesman Daniel Rufenacht said on Thursday. CEO Frankie Ng was earlier quoted by Swiss newspapers Handelszeitung and Tribune de Geneve as saying […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

China forecasts rising soy imports to make up for less canola

By Reuters March 8, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing | Reuters — China on Friday raised its forecast for soybean imports during the 2018-19 crop year to 85 million tonnes, up from 83.65 million in last month’s outlook, after the country’s customs agency suspended some imports of rival oilseed canola. China’s ministry of agriculture and rural affairs said in its monthly forecast on […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Canada, other countries raise meat inspection bar for Brazil

By Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek June 28, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Meat-importing countries from North America to Europe and Asia have tightened inspection standards for shipments from Brazil in a bid to protect consumers, following a probe into possible corruption involving inspectors. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said on Wednesday that the tighter inspection standards it enacted in April have resulted […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Egypt tightens import quarantine rules on grains

By Reuters August 16, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cairo | Reuters — Egypt has tightened its agriculture quarantine regulations, imposing a rule that will prevent grain shipments suspected of contamination from being offloaded until they receive test results, according to a letter sent to traders Monday. The rule comes just one month after the world’s biggest wheat buyer discontinued its controversial zero tolerance […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Canada, China canola talks end without deal

By Rod Nickel August 12, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg | Reuters — Talks between Canadian and Chinese officials ended in Beijing without China backing down from plans to toughen its inspection standard for canola, threatening $2 billion in Canadian exports of the oilseed ahead of a visit by Canada’s prime minister. Discussions will continue between the two governments, and resolving the issue is […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Reuters

Canada, China meet to solve canola spat as deadline looms

By Rod Nickel August 10, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian officials are in Beijing this week to try to convince China to back off a plan to toughen its standard for Canada’s canola shipments, which has stalled $2 billion in trade, government and industry officials said on Wednesday. China’s quarantine authority AQSIQ told Ottawa in February that it would impose a […] Read more

Beef cattle sector weighs in for federal food processing study

Grain drying relief moving forward, one way or other

Major flour miller to buy U.S. chickpea processor

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