Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada has given its stamp of approval to pigs gene edited to resist porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
Gene edited, PRRS resistant pig approved in Canada
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were stronger on Friday, with positioning ahead of a major winter storm set to move through the United States providing support.
U.S. livestock: Cattle steady ahead of feed report
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange held close to unchanged on Thursday, with the bias lower in the most active months.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures drop Friday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell from nearby highs Friday, with profit-taking to end the week weighing on values. U.S. markets will be closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Swine Innovation Porc funds vaccine, barn cooling research
Reading Time: < 1 minute Vaccine development for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea and Porcine Delta Coronavirus are among new research projects Canadian pork groups will fund over the next few years, Swine Innovation Porc announced Tuesday.
U.S. livestock: Cattle mostly lower Monday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were mostly lower Monday, seeing a modest correction to start the week after rising in early December. The February live cattle contract lost 0.475 cents per pound at 226.675 cents. Feeder cattle were down 2.875 cents in the March contract at 330.425 cents per pound. An estimated 600,000 […] Read more
Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak
Reading Time: 2 minutes A research centre outside Barcelona will be investigated after Spain’s Agriculture Ministry said a recent swine fever outbreak could have been caused by a laboratory leak.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were weaker on Monday, ending a corrective bounce off nearby lows as high beef prices are said to be limiting consumer demand. The February live cattle contract lost 1.925 cents per pound at 215.925 cents. Feeder cattle were down 2.900 cents in the January contract at 321.075 cents […] Read more
Feds pause update on food from cloned livestock
Reading Time: 2 minutes Health Canada has indefinitely suspended a proposed update to the novel food policy governing foods derived from cloned cattle and swine, as well as their progeny.
Workers at Maple Leaf’s Lagimodiere plant in Winnipeg give overwhelming strike mandate
Reading Time: < 1 minute Workers at the Maple Leaf Consumer Foods plant on Lagimodiere Boulevard in Winnipeg, voted 98 per cent in favour of a strike mandate on Nov. 15.
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