The door is opening for an American meat packing giant to step into Canada with its processed pork products, says a consultant in the meat packing industry. Consolidation within Canada’s pork processing industry could tempt a company like Oscar Mayer to build markets for its products in Canada, said Bruce Cowper, co-owner of Ontario-based Mallot […] Read more
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Conditions ripe for U.S. packer
Winter wheat growers offer seeding advice
MORDEN, Man. – Deciding when to plant, picking the right seeding depth and avoiding winterkill are among the topics that crop up when producers gather to talk about their experiences growing winter wheat. Three Manitoba farmers offered their thoughts on those kinds of issues at a winter cereals school held this fall in Morden. For […] Read more
Stock Sales
Nov. 15: Northern Select sale, Camrose, Alta., 403-341-5098 Nov. 15: Full French Charolais sale, Red Deer, 306-933-4200 Nov. 15: Northern Select sale, Camrose, Alta., 403-341-5098 Nov. 15: Pembina Triangle Association female sale, Cypress River, Man., 204-876-4665 or 204-379-2443 Nov. 15: Sheep and goat sale, Moose Jaw, Sask., 306-693-4715 Nov. 16: Harvest Hoedown production sale, Neepawa, […] Read more
Crop report system lacking
WINNIPEG – Statistics Canada has conceded it should have done more to show how a severe prairie drought and difficult survey conditions muddled its 2002 canola crop estimates. The federal agency’s phone survey of more than 33,000 farmers for its season-ending report last December resulted in a canola production number that was off by 17 […] Read more
Junior futurity class turns out future breeders
EDMONTON – Having fun, meeting new people, and, oh yeah, showing cattle is what brings a group of young cattle producers back to the junior futurity classes at shows across the Prairies. “I just love showing cattle,” said Jessica Hehr of Ponoka, Alta., sitting on a tack box chatting with a group of kids beside […] Read more
Mailbox
Wanted: McCall’s boys fleece hat pattern, peak and ear flaps. Pattern has been discontinued. Will pay postage. – E. Elsom, Box 1653, Moose Jaw, Sask. S6H 7K7.
Manitoba cabinet shuffled
Rosann Wowchuk remained agriculture minister and deputy premier following last week’s reshuffling of the Manitoba cabinet. Also important to agriculture and rural Manitoba is the conservation department, which will now be headed by Dauphin-Roblin MLA Stan Struthers, who replaces Steve Ashton. Ashton will head the newly created water stewardship department, which makes him responsible for […] Read more
Food export lobby says tariff cuts necessary
A food industry export lobby has warned MPs not to be seduced by a supply management sector proposal that world trade can be expanded by increasing regulated trade rather than lowering tariffs. In late October, a coalition of poultry groups told the House of Commons agriculture committee that the focus of World Trade Organization talks […] Read more
Coming Events
Nov. 12-15: Saskatoon Fall Fair, Prairieland Park, Saskatoon, 306-931-7149 Nov. 13-14: Alberta Horticultural Congress and Prairie West Horticultural Show, Mayfield Inn and Suites, Edmonton (Shirley Alton, 877-998-2782 or 780-998-7586) Nov. 14-15: Roblin and district trade show, community centre, Roblin, Man. (Dale Scott, 204-937-2156) Nov. 14-16: Alberta Sheep Symposium, Red Deer Lodge, Red Deer (Gordon Fulton, […] Read more
Vanclief may axe cull cattle funding
Federal agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief appears poised to rescind an offer to co-fund with provinces a $200 million cull cattle program that would have paid producers $159 per head for each slaughtered older animal. On Nov. 7, he said objections from the industry and provinces meant a program he had expected to announce last week […] Read more
