Pork

China Cancels U.S. Pork Import Order as U.S.-China Trade War Drags On

The same week U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping increases on tariffs against Chinese goods, Chinese buyers dropped orders for 3,247 metric tonnes of U.S. pork – the biggest cancellation…

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…

Bibeau Presses Chinese Counterpart on Canola Ban During G20 Meeting

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she used a G20 ministers’ meeting in Japan to press her Chinese counterpart for the evidence behind Beijing’s bans on Canadian canola by Mike Blanchfield…

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 Agriculture Sector Will Survive This Trade War But There Will be Casualties

The agricultural pedagogy of a global trade disruption. It’s a lofty, detached way of talking about the current conditions that are affecting lives and testing the fiscal thresholds of many…

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…

Bibeau travels to Japan for G20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

Agriculture ministers from the countries who make up the G20 traveled to Niigata, Japan, this week, including Canada’s Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau The purpose of the meeting for…

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…

Getting the Dirt on Soil at Senate Agriculture Committee

The Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry heard Thursday morning from witnesses with expertise in soil health The Honourable Robert Black, who joined the Senate last year after a…

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…

USMCA Ratification Unlikely Before Next Year

The Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute suggests it is now unlikely the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will be ratified by all three countries until some time next year…

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…

Bibeau Announces China Suspends Pork Imports From Two Canadian Companies

The federal agriculture minister says that department officials have told her the Chinese government has suspended the export permits of two Canadian pork exporters, both based in Quebec by Rod…

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!