Delegates to Alberta Beef Producers are uneasy about the implications of the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act. The provincial government amended Bill 6 Dec. 7, promising to exclude farm and ranch owners and their families from mandatory Occupational Health and Safety rules and mandatory Workers’ Compensation Board coverage. Mandatory coverage goes into […] Read more
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P&H to build $45 million Hamilton flour mill
P&H Milling Group, Canada’s largest milling company, is building a $45 million flour mill in Hamilton, Ont. The mill will be built adjacent to the terminal elevator that its parent company Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd. opened in 2011 at the Port of Hamilton. P&H Milling will spend $40 million on the project and the government […] Read more
CME live cattle ends mostly lower after rocky session
CHICAGO, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts landed in negative territory on Tuesday after an up-and-down day of trading stirred by short-covering and uncertainty about near-term cash prices, traders said. Spot December closed up 0.625 cent per lb to 122.250 cents per lb, February ended down 0.075 cent to 127.075 […] Read more
Tackling a taboo: climate activists take tender approach on meat
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Chances are that you believe in climate change but would be furious if someone tried to take away your steak. That’s why activists at this year’s United Nations climate summit in Paris are taking a gentle approach to tackling the world’s greenhouse gas-intensive love affair with meat, ranging from offering lookalike […] Read more
El Nino near peak intensity, some signs of easing: Australia
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — The current El Nino weather event is near its peak intensity and likely to persist well into 2016, but some indicators are showing signs of easing, Australia’s weather bureau said. Sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean remain close to record levels, the bureau said, and the 2015-16 El Nino will […] Read more
Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology
LONDON, U.K. (Reuters) — A British animal genetics firm, working with U.S. scientists, has bred the world’s first pigs resistant to a common viral disease, using the hot new technology of gene editing. Genus, which supplies pig and bull semen to farmers worldwide, said it had worked with the University of Missouri to develop pigs […] Read more
‘Monster’ El Nino could usher in decade of more and stronger events
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Reuters) — It hasn’t snowed yet in Buffalo this year. A newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota, reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero Fahrenheit, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what’s already the third wettest December in local history. What’s going on with the weather? It’s the […] Read more
British review calls for urgent cuts to antibiotic use in livestock
LONDON, U.K. (Reuters) — Massive use of antibiotics in farming poses a critical threat to global public health and should be reduced dramatically to an internationally agreed target, says a British government-commissioned review. Agreeing on and implementing a global target for agricultural antibiotic use won’t be easy, said the review, led by former Goldman Sachs […] Read more
Meat labeling news weighs on CME live cattle, hog futures
CHICAGO, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell on Monday, partly led by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling against the United States in a meat-labeling dispute, said traders. Canada and Mexico may impose tariffs worth $1 billion onto U.S.-traded products, a WTO panel ruled on Monday, as the countries prepared […] Read more
COOL tariff ruling renews calls to repeal law
UPDATED: Dec. 7, 2015 – 1145 CST – The World Trade Organization has granted Canada and Mexico the right to impose more than $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs against the United States following a seven year dispute over country-of-origin labeling. In a Dec. 7 news release, the WTO arbitration panel set the annual level of […] Read more
