Pork
During his FarmScape Online interview Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said governments and industry are working toward resolving issues that are limiting Canadian pork and beef producers’ access to Europe under…
Lobbying efforts on the North American Free Trade Agreement hit a crucial stage this week after the Trump administration ignored the U.S. business community’s advice and pitched proposals to radically…
Canada is growing and promoting trade for its farmers and food processors, which helps to ensure a strong and vibrant agricultural sector with good middle-class jobs The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay,…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaving one country whose political leaders are mixed about saving NAFTA and is on his way to another where officials are uneasy about the fate…
The Government of Canada supports the Canadian livestock sector in its efforts to raise healthy, productive and well-cared for animals Member of Parliament for Guelph, Lloyd Longfield on behalf of…
The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, yesterday completed the first leg of a 10-day European agricultural trade mission in Cologne, Germany As part of his efforts to…
Andrew Dickson, the general manager of Manitoba Pork, is one of the brightest people in Canada’s meat industry. He always has his fingers on the issues of the day and…
As part of the Government’s efforts to foster growth for farmers through new export opportunities and well-paying jobs, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay will lead a trade mission…
Canada has agreed to drop a decades-old trade dispute against the European Union’s restriction of beef imports thanks to terms in the recently enacted Canada-EU trade agreement The dispute goes…
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…
Editor’s note: The following article is by Bryan Thiessen, Chair of the Beef Cattle Research Council. Bryan manages Namaka Farms near Strathmore, Alberta and represents 11 more council members who…
Beef farmers must look beyond feed efficiency when evaluating the potential of young sires, according to research looking at the relationship between feed and reproductive performance What might be a…
Manitoba is 2017’s most Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) affected province, and additional cases aren’t out of the question by Richard Kamchen – Farm Credit Canada (FCC) “With the number…
The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) is pleased to announce that Ontario Pork’s Friends of the Food Bank program has donated its one-millionth serving of fresh, Ontario pork to…
Dr. Paul Sundberg, the Executive Director of the Swine health Information Centre, told FarmScape Online that the creation of a Rapid Response Corps will speed up the response to emerging…
As Canada, the United States and Mexico continue to work towards modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Government of Canada remains committed to hearing from Canadians from…
For Canadian producers, CETA will mean duty-free access on 96% of EU tariff lines immediately upon the trade pact’s provisional application CETA will improve market access for Canada while mitigating…
Ontario’s pork processing capacity took a huge leap forward last week when the province announced a $5.3 million investment into a state-of-the-art processing facility at Conestoga Meat Packers in Breslau,…
The biggest trade deal in history – the Trans-Pacific Partnership – was assumed to be dead when the United States pulled out last January by John Ivison – The National…
While still awaiting the resolution of critical technical barriers, Canada’s meat packing and processing industry notes the provisional entry into force, effective September 21, 2017, of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive…
Our March 2025 Issue
In our March 2025 issue we deep dive into the Trade War endgame, Protecting farms in the digital age, Rising beef prices and reduced cattle herds, the end of USMCA, Cattle market diversity, and much more!
