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Alberta ranchers affected by quarantine because of the discovery of one TB-infected cow were to meet with government officials Nov. 14 to discuss potential financial assistance. About 35 cattle operations, including two in Saskatchewan, are under quarantine because their cattle may have had contact with the bovine tuberculosis infected cow in community pastures near Alberta’s […] Read more

Livestock operators warned about activists who believe animals should be free or trespass to take videos

CALGARY — A southern Alberta hog barn had an unwelcome visitor earlier this year, a stranger who tried to release pigs from the site. It was a potentially dangerous situation, said Alberta Pork executive director Darcy Fitzgerald. He did not name the farm or location, but he said incidents of strangers at livestock operations are […] Read more

The U.S. industry has seen processors buy out producers and raise their own supply, eliminating a cash market price

CALGARY — Pricing Canadian pigs based on the United States cash market is “a brain dead formula” that no longer serves producers, says the president of Alberta Pork. Frank Novak told producers at the organization’s Nov. 9 annual general meeting that the low number of pigs traded on the U.S. cash market don’t provide an […] Read more

The ball got rolling courtesy of Doug Gillespie, past-president of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, when he donated the beef from one animal to Saskatchewan food banks and challenged others to do the same. The official SSGA Beef Drive had begun. As of Nov. 10, three or four animals had been donated, along with about […] Read more