The organizers of the BBQ Canada Challenge had hoped to see four million Canadians eat one million pounds of Canadian beef on Labour Day. While preliminary results show those numbers may have been ambitious, event co-ordinator Joe Acker said Canadians still showed up in droves. “Any consumption in the order we achieved is considered a […] Read more
Stories by Allen Warren
Beef industry needs gov’t help: expert
Canada has too much idle protein wandering its countryside and the government has to do something about it. That’s according to Ted Bilyea, president of Maple Leaf Foods International and co-chair of the Canadian Agri-Food Marketing Council. Bilyea spoke to a Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership luncheon crowd Sept. 5 in Saskatoon about bovine spongiform […] Read more
