Nutreco Aquires Canada's Leading Animal Nutrition Business
CANADA - Nutreco Holding N.V. announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Canada's leading animal nutrition business from Maple Leaf Foods Inc. The purchase price for this acquisition is CAD 500 million (EUR 330 million). The transaction...

Ag Census Shows More Poultry, Less Beef in Area
CANADA - Census of Agriculture data continues to pour it -- with lots of information nationally, provincially, and from right here at home.

2006 Census Of Agriculture Shows Canada's Long Term Decline Continues
CANADA - Today, Statistics Canada provided the latest snapshot of the nation's agriculture industry, using new data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture.

WTO Fails To Recognize Canadian Egg, Poultry And Dairy Trade Position
CANADA - The challenges paper issued Monday in Geneva by the Chair of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agriculture Negotiations is a disappointing document that fails to reflect the Canadian position on trade.

Canada's New Government Invests $560,000 to Explore Market Demand for Pork, Chicken, Veal and Lamb
ONTARIO - Wajid Khan, Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Streetsville, on behalf of the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, today announced $560,000 in funding for a coalition of...

Poultry Workers Brace For Plant Shutdown
CANADA - The clock is ticking for hundreds of poultry workers in the Annapolis Valley who have only two days of work left.

Noveko and Monitrol sign distribution agreement
MONTREAL - Noveko International Inc. announces that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Monitrol Inc., a North American leader in ventilation management software and hardware for farm buildings.

Secretary of State defends interests of hatching egg producers
QUEBEC – The Honourable Christian Paradis, Secretary of State for Agriculture, today made the following statement after his address to Quebec hatching egg producers at their annual general meeting in Trois-Rivières.

Ontario's Minister of Finance Fails to Recognize Veterinarians as Health Care Providers
ONTARIO - Today's Provincial Budget has left Ontario veterinarians feeling unappreciated and undervalued.

Commentary - Chicken production 4.1% lower than a year ago
CANADA - North American Meat Protien Commentary from Jim Long.

Maple Leaf reports “significant improvements”
TORONTO - Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006.

Challenges for Canadian poultry industry
CANADA - A private company’s decision to close its longtime operations in the Annapolis Valley will cost nearly 400 direct jobs and possibly damage a key sector of the farm economy.

Loss of poultry plant latest blow to Nova Scotia farming
CANADA - Kings County is ground zero in the fight to save Nova Scotia’s struggling agriculture industry, and part of the problem is: What to do?

Banff Seminar 2007 Discusses United Egg Producers Certified
CANADA - This article contains a link to an audio file on a discussion at the latest Banff Pork Seminar.

Maple Leaf Foods closing poultry plant in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - Almost 400 people in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley will lose their jobs when food processor Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX:MFI) closes its aging poultry plant in Canard at the end of April.

Farm groups fear agri-business wins if CWB goes
CANADA - Alberta's beef producers already know what happens when multinational food giants dominate the market. Now, with the future of the Canadian Wheat Board in doubt, there are fears of diminished profits if U.S. grain buyers are left to do the same...

Canadian Gov Provides $25 Million For Cutting Edge, Vaccine Laboratory
CANADA - Today, the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, the Honourable Carol Skelton, Minister of National Revenue, and Parliamentary Secretary David Anderson announced that Canada`s New Government will invest in an ambitious new vaccine research...

Poultry, Swine Producers More Aware of Hydrogen Sulfide, Ammonia Risks
CANADA - Levitt Safety reports the level of awareness among swine producers related to the potential hazards posed by hydrogen sulfide and ammonia have improved tremendously over the past four years writes Bruce Cochrane.

Researcher turns turkey away from the dark side
CANADA - "White meat or dark?" That question, now as much a part of holiday traditions as rum and eggnog, will be asked again and again at dinner tables this Christmas, as carving knifes prepare to slice into the bird's crisp skin.

Canadian Researcher discovers, raising of safer and healthier chickens using probiotics
CANADA - Giving chickens probiotics – dietary supplements that contain live beneficial bacteria – stimulates their immune system and reduces the Salmonella bacteria in their gut by more than 99 per cent, a University of Guelph professor and an Agriculture...

Study Says US Chickens Are Not Safe
CANADA - A report has found that 83% of 525 chickens tested were infected with either campylobacter or salmonella bacteria.

Researcher: Dead Ducks Prove Avian Cholera Moving North
CANADA - More than 3,000 common eider ducks found dead on Nunavut's South Hampton Island this summer were infected with avian cholera, a scientist with the Canadian Wildlife Service says.

Livestock cruelty laws: Ontario moves forward
CANADA - Ontario livestock producers and the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) may view the issues of animal welfare and livestock cruelty from very different vantage points, but they agree that the current system of enforcing...

Science Succeeds in Extending the Shelf Life of Meat While Maintaining Optimum Quality
CANADA - Farm-Scape: Episode 2213. Farm-Scape is a Wonderworks Canada production and is distributed courtesy of Manitoba Pork Council and Sask Pork.

University of Manitoba Prepares to Expand Assessment of Pearling to Clean Fusarium Contaminated Barley
CANADA - Farm-Scape: Episode 2210. Farm-Scape is a Wonderworks Canada production and is distributed courtesy of Manitoba Pork Council and Sask Pork.