Sask. Farm awarded animal welfare certification
Triple H Beef of Dysart, Sask., has been certified as Animal Welfare Approved Grassfed.
The ranch, owned by Leonard Pigott, joins three other ranches in Alberta given the certification.
The distinction and the AWA Grassfed logo guarantees that food products marked as grass fed come from animals that are raised on pasture or range and fed a 100 percent grass and forage diet their entire lives.
The logo informs consumers that animals were raised with high animal welfare standards.
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Pigott manages 300 head of cattle on more than 2,200 acres. The animals never receive grain, supplements or added hormones.
Triple H Beef’s name refers to “healthy bodies, holistic living and healing the land.”
Pigott said his goal is to improve the water and mineral cycle on his land.
For more information, visit www.triple-h-beef.com.
Agricultural mission to visit Denmark
Canadians wanting to learn more about Danish agriculture or network with companies in Denmark can join a partially subsidized business mission Nov. 24-28.
The Royal Danish Consulate General in Toronto is organizing the mission to the Agromek show.
Participants will be able to learn about Danish best practices and innovation with livestock equipment, crop management, agricultural machinery and energy.
Registration is limited to 25 people. The deadline is May 16.
The estimated total cost is $2,500, which includes the flight, hotel, access to Agromek, opening party, local site visits and most meals.
For more information, visit canada.um.dk/en/the-trade-council/news/.
Newalta facility wins safety award
Newalta has presented its facility in Alida, Sask., with a vice-president’s award for health, safety and environmental excellence for the second year in a row.
Newalta works with Canadian oil and gas industry as an environmental services provider to minimize waste, enhance recycling and recover valuable products.
The Alida facility focuses on recycling and recovering materials from drilling mud, waste water and solids that have been contaminated by spills during oilfield waste treatment and processing.
New 4-H Ontario president appointed
Kim McCaw was recently appointed president of the Ontario 4-H Council for a two-year term. She replaces John den Haan.
McCaw was a 4-H member in dairy and beef clubs for nine years. She also participated in judging and was a youth leader in Hastings County.
She has often volunteered with the organization, and was a Halton County beef leader in 2012.
She has also mentored at the 4-H Canada Global 4-H Youth Ag Summit, served as association representative for Halton and has been a director on the Ontario 4-H Council board.
She has also held leading roles with the Canadian Young Speakers For Agriculture, the Canadian Agriculture Communicators of Tomorrow, the OAC Alumni Association, Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program Class 14, Toastmasters and the Junior Farmers Association of Ontario.
New directors were also elected, including those filling some executive positions.
Egg producers donate to food bank
Egg Farmers of Ontario is celebrating its 50th anniversary by donating eggs to Ontario food banks.
The voluntary program will donate at least $250,000 worth of eggs to the Ontario Association of Food Banks during the first year. It will provide 12,000 dozen eggs per month.
Ontario egg graders are supporting the program by donating all of the egg grading and packaging costs.
Burnbrae Farms and Gray Ridge Egg Farms are supporting the program.
The program is expected to help more than 370,000 people, including 131,000 children, who access food banks in Ontario.
B.C. animal health lab receives accreditation
British Columbia’s animal health lab in Abbotsford has received five year accreditation from the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians for its diagnostic testing. The lab, which handles 5,000 submissions per year, is one of three labs in Canada accredited by the AAVLD.
It diagnoses, monitors and assists in controlling and preventing animal diseases, including BSE, avian influenza, West Nile Virus and porcine epidemic diarrhea.
The lab provides a wide range of testing to the livestock and veterinary industries, including pathology, bacteriology, serology, molecular diagnostics and virology in animals, poultry and fish.
