Industry

Canada and U.S. Agree on Safe Trade Zones In Event of an African Swine Fever Outbreak

For business continuity, Canada and the United States have worked to modify their export certificates to allow trade of live swine, swine semen, pet food and animal by-products and meat…

Automated Swine Transport Trailer Cleaning Offers Added Animal Welfare Benefits

Research aimed at speeding up and lowering the cost of cleaning swine transport trailers is offering added animal welfare benefits By Bruce Cochrane – FarmScape Online Researchers working on behalf…

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Reports Feeder Cattle Dip To Contract Lows

U.S. feeder cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) dipped to new contract lows on Thursday as a rally in Chicago Board of Trade corn futures this week continued…

Canadian Cattle Producers Back Quebec Farmers’ Beef With Beyond Meat Over Plant-Based Meat Marketing

Cattle producers across the country are backing Quebec colleagues who have filed a complaint over a popular new meatless burger that is being advertised as plant-based meat by Mark Lennihan…

Quebec Cattle Producers Take Issue With Advertising of Beyond Meat Burger

The Quebec Cattle Producers Federation has launched a complaint with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, saying that the American veggie burger company Beyond Meat has no right to advertise their…

Market Reports World Releases Animal Feed Testing Report

Market Reports World recently announced a new addition of the report titled 2019-2024 Global and Regional Feed Testing Market Production, Sales and Consumption Status and Prospects Professional Market Research Report,…

Dual Biosecurity Ring Needed to Protect Against Foreign Animal Disease

The Manager of the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network says two rings of biosecurity are needed to protect the North American swine herd from the threat posed by foreign…

The First Slaughter-Free Meat Startup Secures $12M in Funding

Aleph Farms, co-founded by The Kitchen Hub, is the first company to grow real meat cuts directly from cattle cells, and announces it has raised $12 million in funds from…

Turkey Farmers of Canada Launches National Think Turkey Campaign

Turkey Farmers of Canada, a national organization representing Canada’s 500+ turkey farmers, the Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council, Turkey Primary Processing Sector Members, have together launched Think TurkeyTM /…

Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence Offers Gate to Plate Beef Cattle Research

A Professor with the University of Saskatchewan says the new Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence takes beef research all the way from the feedlot to the consumers’ plate by…

Marketing Farming to Youth by Youth in P.E.I.

One in eight jobs in Canada is in the agriculture and agri-food sector. By 2022, there will be 74,000 job opportunities available in Canadian agriculture To address this issue, Agriculture…

Canadian Pork Exports to Japan Catching Up To The United States Under CPTPP

Canadian pork exports to Japan are closing in on those of the United States as homegrown producers race to take advantage of a new Asia-Pacific trade deal abandoned by the…

Ontario Farmers and Grocers Fear the Worst Over Review of Ontario Food Terminal

From the outside, it looks like a relatively normal day at the Ontario Food Terminal in Etobicoke On the inside, the massive warehouse is cold. Everyone working inside the 16-hectare…

Cows and Climate Change: A Closer Look

The extent to which meat production contributes to climate change is hotly contested by Andre Mayer – CBC News Earlier this year, when U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first started promoting…

Farm Property Incursions Are a Risk to Animals and Families

Ontario farm groups strongly disagree with yesterday’s decision to drop charges against a well-known animal rights activist “Yesterday’s court decision negatively impacts all of Ontario agriculture,” said Keith Currie, President…

Cleanfarms Posts Increases in 2018 Farm Ag-Plastic Recovery Programs

Cleanfarms continues to demonstrate that Canada’s agricultural community is committed to managing farm waste responsibly Canada Newswire In its 2018 annual report just released, Cleanfarms recorded an increase in recovery…

Canadian Farm Exports Hit New Chinese Obstacles Amid Diplomatic Dispute

An expanding list of Canadian farm exports is hitting obstacles at Chinese ports, leaving sellers of soybeans, peas and pork scrambling amid a bitter diplomatic dispute Reuters China has already…

Ranchers Keep Watch on Beyond Burger Retail Debut

Saskatchewan rancher Ross Macdonald isn’t afraid of the Beyond Burger by Arthur White-Crummey – Regina Leader-Post The meatless product is set to come to Canadian grocery stores in time for…

Walmart Creates Angus Beef Supply Chain and Cutting Out Meat Processors

Walmart Inc is taking control of the supply chain for Angus beef sold in some of its stores, cutting out meat processors as the company looks to offer higher quality…

Plant Based Burgers Signal Shift in Canadian Grocery Retail

It was just a matter of time before we saw Beyond Meat, the California-based company partially owned by Bill Gates and meat-giant Tyson Foods, make a jump from drive-throughs to…

Our November 2024 Issue

In our November 2024 issue we feature FCC’s trend predictions on USA agriculture’s impact on Canada, McDonald’s E.coli crisis, Crowned Ontarios’s finest butcher, Beef industry leaders meeting to face 2025 challenges, Disappointment with Bill C-282, Rising crime in Agriculture, and much more!