News and Issues About The Cattle Industry with a focus on western Canada
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Farm readies biogas plant
London Free Press, Canada - 29 Nov 2007 The farm has the capacity to handle 2000 head of dairy cattle producing enough manure to generate 300 kilowatts of power. That output could supply more than … |
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NFU Calls for Gov't Action to Help Livestock Producers
Saskatoonhomepage.ca, Canada - 28 Nov 2007 The NFU wants Ottawa to distribute immediate, targeted, capped financial aid to family farm livestock producers. Delegates recommended ''graduated payments … |
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Ethanol industry makes for an easy target
StarPhoenix, Canada - 28 Nov 2007 The US, with much more ethanol production, also has far more distillers' grains for its livestock industry — particularly for cattle producers. |
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Sask. farmers produced $4.7B in crops, livestock
Regina Leader-Post, Canada - 27 Nov 2007 But it was different story for livestock producers who have been suffering from low prices, high feed prices and the high Canadian dollar. … |
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Uneasy future for cattle producers
Meridian Booster, Canada - 26 Nov 2007 Lori Creech, communications manager for the Alberta Beef Producers, says many Canadian cattle producers are looking at the open border with guarded optimism … |
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Cattle trade slowly adjusts after border opening
StarPhoenix, Canada - 9 hours ago REGINA — When Sylvan Martens of Marten's Cattle Company near Spiritwood sold a Charolais-bred heifer in 2002, he never suspected it would take five years … US owner finally gets his Canadian heifer Regina Leader-Post all 2 news articles |
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New ag minister finds job to be hard slogging
StarPhoenix, Canada - 9 hours ago By Friday morning, Bjornerud was already in a meeting with cattle ranchers and pork producers warning of a crisis caused by the loonie's rapid rise to above … |
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According to Alberta cattle producers. Like the remaining employees of Canada’s dwindling manufacturing sector, will cattle farmers have to wait until the 2008 budget to see if Canada’s prematurely aged government can be bothered to …
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New Sask Ag Minister Meets with Livestock Groups on Friday
Saskatoonhomepage.ca, Canada - 23 Nov 2007 Cattle and hog producers are looking for assistance to help them through a period of low prices. Bob Bjornerud says ''we ran over all kinds of scenarios … Major hog operators calling it quits across PEI Atlantic Farm Focus [FULL STORY] Atlantic Farm Focus all 3 news articles |
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great west beef and bison ceases operations
Southwest Booster, Canada - 23 Nov 2007 “one of the big obstacles was that we had gone from the packing plant concept to the assembly yard idea, and we were hoping to ship cattle to a packing … |
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