Politics & Science

When Canadian dairy farmer Ben Loewith’s calves are born next spring, they will be among the first in the world to be bred with a specific environmental goal: burping less…

More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising food, but millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in…

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) is pleased to extend a warm welcome to Minister Lawrence MacAulay as he returns to the role of Minister of Agriculture & Agri-Food  …

Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are exploring the prospects of using artificial intelligence to improve animal welfare…

The annual conference of Federal, Provincial and Territorial (FPT) Ministers of Agriculture was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, from July 19 to 21, 2023       Ministers discussed the agriculture…

Thousands of port workers across British Columbia are resuming strike activity after failing to ratify a tentative deal that was reached through federal mediation    CBC News More than 7,400…

The Canadian Meat Council (CMC), Canadian Cattle Association (CCA), and the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) are deeply disappointed with the agreement announced by the Minister of Trade to grant the…

British Columbia port workers are back on the job after a tentative agreement was reached between the employers association and the workers union, ending a 13-day-old strike      …

Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, and other major meat industry suppliers that are challenging price-fixing claims in U.S. court said they oppose a plan to let a litigation funder affiliate take over…

The Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) is welcoming more than $12 million in funding from the Government of Canada for Canada’s Beef and Forage AgriScience Cluster under the Sustainable Canadian…

France has chosen German company Boehringer Ingelheim to supply the 80 million doses of vaccines against bird flu for its vaccination campaign to start on the autumn, an agriculture ministry…

Evidence of African Swine Fever recombination in China is raising concern over the potential long-term effectiveness ASF vaccines    by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca Researchers in China have published a report…

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday initial local trials for an African swine fever vaccine had showed promising results, raising hopes that it will soon be available in…

A new tool that uses swine disease data submitted voluntarily by participants in the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring project is helping warn U.S. pork producers of diseases that are present…

A three-year, one-million-dollar grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will help expand the use of data collected through the Swine Disease Reporting System to identify disease…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will take steps to better verify antibiotic-free labels on meat and poultry products after receiving petitions challenging its existing process for not being rigorous enough,…

Canada and the United States along with four of their allies condemned the use of trade practices that amount to economic coercion in a joint declaration that did not single out…

Ontario has backed off a housing proposal that farmers say would have had a “catastrophic” impact on farmland and livestock operations      by Allison Jones – The Canadian Press…

A new pilot scale vaccine manufacturing facility in Saskatoon will speed up the development of new vaccines for both animals and humans     by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca The…

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture and its partners, The Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council (CAHRC) and Food and Beverage Canada (FBC), are pleased to see Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC)…