Q&A

The Future of Cultivated Meat

Meat Business Pro spoke recently with Dana McCauley, CEO of the Canadian Food Innovation Network (CFIN), one of this country’s top food industry experts.  Our discussion focused on the status…

Q&A: Meena Sankaran and the Ketos Solution

With increased droughts decimating herds and ravaging what previously had been fertile crop lands, water sustainability and resiliency has never been more important. For Ketos CEO, Meena Sankaran, clean water…

Q&A with CHAR Technologies’ Andrew White

CHAR is a cleantech development and services company that has gained attention in renewable natural gas and agriculture circles with its application of High Temperature Pyrolysis (HTP) to convert low-value…

Q&A: Cattle Are Part Of The Climate Solution

A conversation with rangeland ecologist Richard Teague, PhD, analyzing the role that adaptive multi-paddock cattle grazing plays in sequestering carbon There’s a lot of terms for management intensive grazing, you…

Our Latest Q&A: Talking Turkey with Manitoba Turkey Producers’ Rachelle Brown

Rachelle Brown is the Chair of the Manitoba Turkey Producers and is currently serving her fifth consecutive three-year term. She is also Manitoba’s director to the Turkey Farmers of Canada,…

HyLife and Beekeeper: The Employee Communication Platform that Softened the COVID-19 Blow

According to Dennis Brewster, Learning  and Development Manager at HyLife Foods, one of Canada’s top pork producers, the company embarked on a search for a comprehensive solution to improve communications among their diverse…

A Q&A with Central Products & Foods Ltd: Built on Tradition

When you walk into Sausage Makers store front delicatessen at 630 Nairn Avenue in Winnipeg’s east end, the wafting aroma of fine deli meats makes your mouth water. Customers have…

Talking Agriculture with Lawrence MacAulay

Prior to Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle earlier this March that saw Honourable Minister Lawrence MacAulay appointed Minister of Veteran Affairs, and Quebec MP Marie-Claude Bibeau assuming the desk of Minister of…

Ron Glaser Q&A: What the New Check-Off Means for Canada Beef

Ron Glaser is Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Canada Beef and he also serves in another capacity for the agency on the Executive Leadership Team, responsible for setting Canada…

Q&A with CCA’s Emily Ritchie: Shaping Youth in the Industry

Typically the beef industry, or for that matter the agriculture industry in general, tends to suffer from poor youth retention, especially in the boardrooms and on the ranches and farms.…

Fawn Jackson Q&A: Sustainability is Really Coming Now

After five years of forums and metrics planning the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) is going live today in Edmonton and executive director, Fawn Jackson, couldn’t be more excited.…

David Francis Farms, PEI – 2017 TESA Recipient

David Francis will tell you no one was more surprised than he when the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) selected their farm as recipient of this year’s TESA -The Environmental Stewardship…

John Masswohl Q&A: The Real State of the Trade Talks

The tone of NAFTA headlines throughout the media seems to be particularly negative since the last round of sessions in Ottawa concluded last week. And one word seemed to be…

Canada Beef’s Ron Glaser: The Exciting Road Ahead

The year ahead is an open road in many ways for Canada Beef, the organization amalgamated out of the former Beef Information Centre (BIC), the Canada Beef Export Federation (CBEF),…

The Banff Pork Seminar Overview with Mark Chambers

The Banff Pork Seminar has become one of the most anticipated annual industry events and this year’s conference held in January set the bar even higher according to Committee Chairman…

Dr. John Church and His Wonderful Drones

Consumer drones have become the hobby of choice for a growing number of eager video enthusiasts. The technology behind the drone and the camera payload has rapidly broken performance barriers…

Q&A with Dennis Laycraft: The Beef Conference 2016

When we had our last Q & A with Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) Executive Vice President Dennis Laycraft, it was shortly following his November 2015 appointment as the newly elected…

Beretta’s Frozen Butcher Setting the Online Bar

Beretta Farms of Ontario has long been regarded for their quality, heritage and sustainable meat products but when they added the Frozen Butcher concept, guaranteeing nationwide delivery within 48 hours,…

Q & A: Melinda German and Ron Glaser on the 2016 Check-Off Program

This past January, the Canadian Beef Cattle Research, Market Development and Promotion Agency announced the appointment of Melinda German as their new general manager. The announcement meant more than just…

Lawrence MacAulay Q&A

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his new cabinet in November, the appointment of Lawrence MacAulay as Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food was welcomed by the industry. MacAulay is well…

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!