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Live Cattle Futures climb on cash market optimism, Beef demand

Live cattle futures rose on Wednesday for a fourth straight session, climbing ahead of Thursday’s U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as strong packer margins fed expectations of improving cash cattle prices over…

Eleven Ways To Avoid Feed Waste This Winter

Harvesting, storing and delivering a beef herd’s winter rations are the largest expense for most operations. Even small improvements in a winter feed system can result in significant feed cost…

Think Turkey presents “Nourish to Flourish”

With health rightfully top of mind as we head into winter, the Turkey Farmers of Canada have partnered with well-known Registered Dietitian Shannon Crocker to launch Nourish to Flourish: Recipes…

Welcome to Meat Business Pro!

Following on the success of our long standing Canadian Meat Business platform, we are proud to announce that we are widening our audience and our reach in Canada and the…

From iPolitics The Sprout: Canada’s Agriculture Ministers kick off two-day annual meeting

Canada’s agriculture ministers are kicking off two days of virtual meetings today after their annual Federal-Provincial-Territorial meeting was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic By Kelsey Johnson The meeting will…

Appetite for more: IFFA 2022 expands its focus

In addition to its traditional focus on meat, IFFA will open up to alternative proteins from 2022. With the new sub-title, ‘Technology for Meat and Alternative Proteins’, the world’s leading…

Britain and Canada agree post-Brexit rollover trade deal

Britain and Canada struck a rollover trade deal on Saturday to protect the flow of $27 billion-worth of goods and services between them after Brexit, and vowed to start talks…

COVID-19 surge slices U.S. demand for big Thanksgiving turkeys

All summer, Greg Gunthorp slaughtered and froze 15- to 24-pound turkeys on his northeastern Indiana farm for Thanksgiving sales to retailers, restaurants and families across the Midwest Reuters But as…

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…

Messe Frankfurt Increases Its Presence in North America

Messe Frankfurt and the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) are stepping up their collaboration. After Messe Frankfurt already took over the running of the event in May of this year,…

Partners Continue to Advance Canada’s Pork Industry

University of Alberta professor of Animal Biotechnology Michael Dyck has received new funding through Genome Canada’s Genomics Application Partnership Program (GAPP) Genome Alberta He is no stranger to the needs…

What To Expect On The Trade File From a Biden Administration

On the morning of the U.S. election, a Vancouver radio host asked Justin Trudeau what topped his list of cross-border concerns by Janyce McGregor – CBC News “Trade,” the prime…

Rural Broadband Implementation a Fundamental Step In Unleashing Agriculture’s Potential

CFA was very pleased with today’s announcement from the Federal Government of $750 million funding for the Universal Broadband Fund This is additional funding to the $1 billion announced in…

New Pork Promotion and Research Agency Will Help Canada’s Pork Producers Thrive

The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, today announced the creation of the Canadian Pork Promotion and Research Agency (PRA), while at the annual general meeting of Les…

New Report Signals Importance of Environmental Targets as Canada Aims For Agri-Food Leadership

Benchmarking environmental footprints of food production and supply is gaining traction across the global agri-food sector and presents Canada with the opportunity to better demonstrate its leadership in sustainable agri-food…

U.S. Election Fever And The Impacts On World Trade

November 3 is election day in the world’s biggest economy, a vote that’s particularly fraught due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the presidential candidates’ differing policy platforms and the potential for…

Research Examines Greenhouse Gas Implications of Low Cost High Fibre Feed Ingredients

Research conducted by the University of Saskatchewan shows the use of low cost high fibre feed ingredients can reduce the cost of producing pork with a minimal impact on productivity…

New Program Empowers Female Egg Farmers to Lead

Sandra Dyck wasn’t born a farmer. Her career began in healthcare, in fact—but everything changed when she married fourth generation egg farmer Eric Dyck and got involved in the family…

Canadian Farmers Are Paying Back Deferred Loans in Sign of Agriculture Sector’s Resilience

A Crown lender says nearly all the farmers and agri-food businesses that deferred payments on its loans because of COVID-19 have started making them again once those deferrals ended, a…

Canada’s Largest Foodservice Trade Show Goes “Online Live”

After months of listening, learning and supporting the Foodservice industry through the COVID-19 pandemic, Restaurants Canada is officially launching the RC Show 2021 ONLINE LIVE This year’s show aims to…

Our February 2025 Issue

In our February 2025 issue we look at, Dietary Guidelines including meat, AI at IFFA 2025, Trade challenges for the Canadian Beef Industry, Shifting Consumer Demand, Strengthening food security, Cattle Fax forecast, Eliminating internal food trade barriers, and much more!