Branded Almo beef sells for $6.60 more per kilogram than commodity beef

Much of Austria is covered in pastoral mountainside fields — beautifully scenic but largely unsuited for agriculture. But in the mountainous northern regions of the Austrian province of Styria, called the Almenland, some entrepreneurial beef farmers are not only farming on the alpine pastures, they’re also revitalizing rural communities and keeping ancient traditions alive. Farmer […] Read more



The National picture

Nearly a half of Canada’s 2008 total beef and dairy calf crop had been age verified in the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s (CCIA) traceability database by Dec 7. That is on a par with 2007. Gauging from the phones ringing off the hook at the CCIA’s service desk in Calgary, communications co-ordinator Brooke Hunter expected […] Read more