Industry

CFA President Issues Statement on COVID-19

The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) applauds all Parliamentarians for swiftly ratifying the Canada—United States—Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) CFA President Mary…

Can You Get Covid-19 From Food?

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 coronavirus a pandemic globally on March 11, 2020. All levels of government continue to monitor and update Canadians to help minimize this rapidly…

Shorter Calving Seasons Can Improve The Bottom Line

For many producers across Canada, calving season has just begun or will soon begin. For other producers this is the time to shift gears into the start of the breeding…

Ontario Beef Farmers Urgently Requesting Federal Assistance Through Time of Crisis

Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO) has raised the alarm regarding the economic crisis facing the industry and has brought an urgent request to Ottawa for federal assistance A perfect storm…

Proper Management Key To Minimize Risk Of Calf Scours

Get cow-calf pairs out onto clean ground, such as fresh pasture, and give them as much space as possible. That’s how Ryan McCarron sidestepped a calf scours outbreak on his…

Canadian Agri-Food Exporters Face Bumpy Road

If last year was a road full of potholes for Canadian agri-food exporters, 2020 is hardly looking much better. Already facing global geopolitical issues, increased protectionism and mounting modernization challenges…

Pigs Unlikely Susceptible to COVID 19

The Manager of the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network says there’s no reason to believe the new human Coronavirus, COVID 19, will affect pigs but it’s always prudent to…

Celebrating Women in Canadian Cattle Farming

With many cattle farms in Canada going back three or more generations, beef has long been an iconic livestock raised across the country and sought after around the world. Not…

Annual Meat Conference Exhibitors Donate More Than 28,000 Pounds of Meat & Poultry Products to Nashville Food Project

Exhibitors at the Annual Meat Conference , co-hosted by FMI, The Food Industry Association and the North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute), this week in Nashville, Tennessee, donated 28,000 pounds…

TrustBIX and Cargill Double Down on Certified Sustainable Beef

TrustBIX and Cargill signed a new agreement for TrustBIX to continue to provide chain-of-custody services that enable Cargill to offer sustainable beef sourcing to its Canadian customers Cargill has and…

Winners of The SilverChef Hospitality Awards 2020 Announced

SilverChef, Canada’s leading hospitality financier, has announced the winners of The SilverChef Hospitality Awards, which recognize the highest standards in Canadian hospitality for innovation, sustainability, and social responsibility and impact.…

Canada Prepared for ASF But More Work Needed

The Canadian Pork Council says African Swine Fever preparedness has advanced considerably and Canada is well positioned but there is still lots left to do by Bruce Cochrane – FarmScape…

Analysis Finds Demand for Meat Strong

The Food Industry Association and the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, the foundation for the North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute), released their 15th-annual in-depth study of…

Restaurants Canada and MeazureUp Partner to Help Restaurants Maintain Quality and Consistency

Restaurants Canada has partnered with MeazureUp to digitize routine quality audits, assessments and checklists. This will allow foodservice operators to track their operations and ensure brand consistency straight from their…

U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Hit An Eight-Year High

U.S. farm bankruptcy rates jumped 20% in 2019 – to an eight-year high – as financial woes in the U.S. agricultural economy continued in spite of massive federal bail-out funding,…

Updated CWSHIN Survey Gathers More Relevant Swine Disease Surveillance Data

The Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network has updated and improved the quarterly survey it circulates among western Canada’s swine veterinarians by Bruce Cochrane – FarmScape Online As part of…

2020 Outlook: Canada’s Red Meat Sector

FCC Ag Economics helps you make sense of these top economic trends and issues likely to affect your operation in 2020 by Leigh Anderson, Senior Agricultural Economist – Farm Credit…

Canadian Scientists First To Test Diagnostic Tool For “TB” in Bison

To help protect Canada’s cattle and bison and maintain the country’s bovine tuberculosis (TB)-free status, scientists from University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) and…

New Tools For On-Farm Record Keeping In Cow-Calf Operations

Are you curious about which areas of your operation are excelling? Or which areas of your operation that might need some work? Are you interested in record keeping but not…

Climate Change Could Open New Land For Farming in Canada — But At What Price

Climate change could open a whole different area in Canada to farming, says newly published research by Bob Weber – The Canadian Press But Evan Fraser of the University of…

Our April 2025 Issue

In our April 2025 issue we look into Agritourism Ontario’s economic growth study, how Americans view meat, the Side Effects of Trump’s Chaos, Faster line speeds in processing plants, IFFA’s sustainability in action, CMC’s Protein PACT, the Alizes awards 2025, the challenges of the Chinese Tariffs, and much more!