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A newly launched website offers pork producers and pork sector stakeholders direct access to data gathered through the University of Minnesota’s Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project by Bruce Cochrane…
Each fall, Cleanfarms teams spread out across the country, bringing a valued opportunity to local farmers to safely and conveniently dispose of unwanted and obsolete agricultural pesticides and old livestock,…
Atlantic Beef Products is going abroad to find specialized staff because it’s having a hard time finding the right workers on P.E.I. by Arturo Chang – CBC News The…
The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board is calling on the province to provide support to hog producers facing soaring feed costs similar to that being offered to other livestock producers …
The biggest concern is the water issue. If we don’t have the water dedicated to agriculture, we don’t have much of an agriculture industry at all in British Columbia …
Québec Solidaire (QS) is calling on the Quebec government to grant emergency aid to the farming sector, which has been badly hit by extreme weather events this summer The…
The Swine Health Information Center is again calling for research proposals under round-2 of the 2.3 million dollar Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Research Program by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca The deadline for…
Canada said on Friday it will participate as a third party in the dispute settlement proceedings between the U.S. and Mexico regarding genetically modified (GM) corn in imported tortillas and…
Overall global trade is expected to flounder throughout 2023 amidst weaker global economic growth, troublesome inflation and geopolitical turmoil, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)…
Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister says the province is making up to $70 million available this year to producers affected by drought by Jeremy Simes – The Canadian Press David…
A significant minority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday said they opposed a federal bill that would overturn a California animal welfare law, arguing it infringes…
Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, concluded productive meetings with key industry and provincial agriculture and agri-food stakeholders during his outreach to Saskatchewan and Alberta During his…
U.S. meat and processed food maker Tyson Foods (TSN.N)plans to sell its China poultry business, three people with knowledge of the matter said, in the latest case of a multinational…
Members of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture and their state and provincial counterparts from Mexico and Canada issued a joint communiqué underscoring North American food security and trade protections during…
The Canadian commercial feed market (for example, pelleted rations for cattle, dairy, hog and poultry) grew over 20% in 2022, reaching a record $11.5 billion in sales by Leigh…
President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday rejected pleas to strengthen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways, promising more study instead by John Flesher…
Computer based artificial intelligence is being harnessed to help assess and improve swine welfare by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca As part of research being conducted through the office of the…
Facciuolo is one of five scientists at USask awarded funding from the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) under the newly announced Canada’s Beef and Forage AgriScience Cluster …
CFA welcomes today’s announcement of the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Recognized Employer Program, a three-year pilot that will first be made available to agricultural workers this September before its wider rollout in…
The Canadian pork industry used to be an agri-food success story by Konrad Yakabuski – The Globe and Mail Unshackled by the chains of supply management that protected Canada’s…
Our January 2025 Issue
In our January 2025 issue we dive into the Smithfield files IPO, Global Red Meat Market trends, Solar Energy and Agricultural activities, Brazil adopting beef traceability, Meat Processing equipment, Rising agriculture crime, Canadian Ag investing, the Meat Institute's new COO, and much more!
