Livestock

Lengthy delays last year to unload container ships at the Port of Vancouver has resulted in a drastically low grade on the latest global ranking of efficiently run harbours. The World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence ranking of 348 ports shoves the Port of Vancouver to second-to-last spot — just ahead of Savannah, Georgia, […]

According to the latest Drought Monitor report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, warm and dry conditions across much of the Prairies in May caused drought conditions to worsen, especially in Alberta. As of May 31st, an estimated 79 per cent of the Prairie region was classified as abnormally dry or in moderate to extreme drought, including […]

China is expected to feed a lot more of its domestic wheat crop to hogs and poultry this year after heavy rains reduced the quality of the harvest in the biggest growing region, boosting prospects for imports. The amount of wheat consumed in animal feed is likely to increase by 10 million tons to about 35 million […]

Canada has extended Ukraine’s tariff-free access for most goods, but tightened access for eggs, poultry and dairy — sectors protected under the Canadian supply-management system. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said tariff relief for Ukrainian goods such as steel — a temporary measure started a year ago — would continue for another year to help support Kyiv […]

The CEO of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is in the nation’s capital this week, focused on two pieces of federal legislation. Grant McLellan says one of the bills is C-282, a private member’s bill that he says makes it illegal for the federal government to discuss supply managed sectors during trade negotiations; the other is […]

The Government of Canada is taking another step forward in bringing its planned new Indo-Pacific Agriculture and Agri-Food Office to fruition – by announcing the Office’s location. Today, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, met with the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA), where they discussed the Indo-Pacific Strategy and she announced Manila, […]

A new report says that Canada’s agricultural land is under pressure to produce more food as demand grows domestically and internationally, while the industry grapples with limited resources and environmental constraints.  The report by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute released Thursday looks at the pressures on Canada’s agricultural land to produce more food while also […]

R-C-M-P say an appeal for information has produced “considerable information” about the deaths of 17 Skeetchestn traditional horses, west of Kamloops, BC. The remains of the wild horses were found in early March near Walhachin — and police said at the time that the herd had been shot. Corporal James Grady says the R-C-M-P’s livestock […]

Those in favour of creating a federal right to repair law say the government should avoid shaping such legislation according to the wishes of special interest lobbyists as Ottawa gets set to launch consultations on the issue. Ottawa signalled in its March budget that it would study the need for legislation to ban the sale […]

Landowners in southeastern Saskatchewan are raising concerns about drainage projects they say are flooding people downstream and wrecking roads.  Project documents show farmers in the Moosomin area have dug channels and ditches to move water out of wetlands and into a nearby creek.  Downstream landowners say much of this drainage work was done without permits […]