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India to accept Canadian pork

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 15, 2016

Canadian pork and pork products may now be exported to India under a new agreement for market access announced Friday. Canada, whose overall agrifood exports to India are mainly in pulse crops such as lentils and peas but also include oilseeds, canola oil, cereal grains, dairy goods, apples and cattle, expects to move $2 million […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Prime cuts

Is COOL dead yet?

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay, from the January 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Steve Kay January 15, 2016

Maybe I’m asking too much. But all I wanted for Christmas was an end to the COOL saga. I’m sure you did as well. Hopefully COOL has already been killed and consigned to the dustbin of ghastly blunders by the time you read this. But at time of writing on December 10, I was not […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News January 15, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– An Indiana turkey flock has been infected with a deadly type of bird flu in the first new case of the disease in U.S. poultry since June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday. The flock in Dubois County, Indiana, was infected with a highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strain of H7N8, […] Read more

Mondelez’s brands in Canada include Oreo cookies, which marked their 100th anniversary with this giant replica unveiled in 2012 in Toronto. (CNW Group/Kraft Canada)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Snack maker Mondelez plans for cage-free eggs by 2020

By Reuters January 15, 2016

Reuters — Mondelez International, the maker of Cadbury chocolates and Oreo cookies, said it would stop using eggs laid by caged hens for its products sold in Canada and the U.S. by 2020. Formed in 2012 by Kraft Foods’ spinoff of its grocery business, including the Christie and Nabisco cookie and cracker lines, Mondelez joins […] Read more

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred on Jan. 6. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Livestock, Reuters, Weather

FAO seeks help for drought-ravaged Ethiopia

By Reuters January 15, 2016

Rome | Reuters — Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations’ food agency to call on Friday for an emergency cash injection of US$50 million to help the country overcome the crisis. Crop production has fallen up to 90 per cent in some regions and failed completely in the country’s east, […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle sag despite supportive fundamentals

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News January 15, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Thursday, dragged down by technical selling that offset higher cash and wholesale beef prices, traders said. February live cattle closed 1.55 cents/lb. lower at 130.55 cents, and April had fallen 1.525 cents, to 131.5 cents (all figures US$). “People were disappointed that […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

EU to review use of last-resort antibiotic on farms

By Reuters January 14, 2016

London | Reuters — European drug regulators launched a review on Jan. 11 of the use in farming of a key last-line antibiotic called colistin, after international research found alarming evidence of a gene that makes bacteria resistant to the drug. The London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was responding to a European Commission […] Read more

Livestock, Straight from the hip

Pointing people in the direction of simple science

By Brenda Schoepp January 14, 2016

I am looking at my teapot. It is not an ordinary teapot but one which you drain from the bottom as it sits on top of your cup. Simple enough in design but transformational in the tea time world. How often, I wonder, do we skip simple innovation or science to get to the point […] Read more

Livestock, Weather

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino conditions weakening

By Reuters January 14, 2016

Reuters — The El Nino phenomenon currently affecting weather is expected to weaken during the Northern Hemisphere spring and transition to normal conditions by late spring or early summer, a U.S. government weather forecaster said Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, was in line in its monthly forecast […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Beef price rebound pulls CME live cattle higher

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News January 13, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts finished moderately higher on Wednesday, helped by short-covering following the day’s turnaround in wholesale beef values, traders said. February live cattle closed 0.5 cent/lb. higher at 132.1 cents, and April ended up 0.325 cent, to 133.025 cents (all figures US$). Wednesday’s afternoon’s wholesale beef price, […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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India to accept Canadian pork

Is COOL dead yet?

U.S. finds first avian flu in poultry since June

Snack maker Mondelez plans for cage-free eggs by 2020

FAO seeks help for drought-ravaged Ethiopia

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle sag despite supportive fundamentals

EU to review use of last-resort antibiotic on farms

Pointing people in the direction of simple science

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino conditions weakening

U.S. livestock: Beef price rebound pulls CME live cattle higher

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