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Comment: Grading changes still on hold
Beef Cattle, Comment

Comment: Grading changes still on hold

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On January 21 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) published its proposed Safe Food for Canadians regulations for public comment. The overall aim is to streamline and tighten up on the regulation of Canada’s food supply. CFIA’s current food safety program is managed under 13 different regulations spread over five pieces of legislation covering nine […] Read more
Deciding what beef research and innovation to fund
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Research

Deciding what beef research and innovation to fund

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

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This column usually features Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) projects supported by Canada’s national checkoff, mainly through Canada’s Beef Science Cluster. The current Beef Cluster involves the BCRC, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Alberta Beef Producers, the Alberta Cattle Feeders Association, Manitoba Beef Producers, Beef Farmers of Ontario, the Quebec Beef Producers Federation, DuPont Pioneer, the […] Read more
CRSB moving ‘verified sustainable beef’ forward
Beef Cattle, News

CRSB moving ‘verified sustainable beef’ forward

McDonald’s headline-grabbing pilot is over, but the effort to boost the cattle industry’s environmental and welfare credentials continues

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It won’t happen in a hurry, but the effort to create a Canadian ‘verified sustainable’ beef brand is moving along and will reach an important milestone by the end of the year. When McDonald’s Canada ended its groundbreaking sustainable beef pilot project last year, the torch was passed to an industry initiative called the Canadian […] Read more
calves and cattle in a feedlot
Beef Cattle, News

BSE lawsuit aims for a trial date in 2017

$8-billion class-action suit says Ottawa should have done more

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It’s been more than a decade since it started, but a class-action suit against the federal government for damages incurred as a result of BSE could be going to trial by the end of the year. “We had the first round of discoveries for 2015 and various questions arose from that, that there were outstanding […] Read more
Beef Cattle, News, News Roundup

ABP focused on checkoff and TB

Associations: News Roundup from the January 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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For three days in early December Alberta Beef Producers’ (ABP) delegates debated resolutions passed at their district fall meetings related to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), carbon tax and sequestration, industry funding and collaboration, and electoral structure. “The resolutions that were carried will provide clear direction to ABP as we move into 2017,” said […] Read more
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CCA reports

CCA Report: Preparing for change

From the January 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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As the January 20 inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump approaches, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is also preparing for the transition. We have worked hard over the years to build strong relationships with American industry and government officials and we will continue to do so. One of the early questions is obviously related to the […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Reuters

Cargill profit jumps on meat demand, big U.S. crops

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Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill on Tuesday reported a sharply higher adjusted quarterly profit led by strong results from its beef and turkey businesses and robust demand for North American grain and oilseed crops. The privately held company said adjusted operating earnings jumped nearly 80 per cent in the second quarter ended Nov. 30 […] Read more
beef on display at a meat counter
Straight from the hip

Schoepp: The value of beef

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Beef remains the most valuable protein in the world. Surprisingly, the approximately 128 billion pounds now produced globally each year could supply each person on earth with 18 pounds. The imbalance in income and the lack of distribution in some places along with the massive per capita consumption in beef-producing countries like Argentina and the […] Read more
Nine per cent of roasts and eight per cent of steaks carried traceability claims; less than two per cent carried claims related to animal diets.
Features

Opportunities in the retail meat case

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Seventy retail store visits and more than 21,000 packages of beef later, findings from the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s National Retail Meat Case study are coming together. This is the first big-picture view of how the beef you produce is being marketed to Canadian consumers. “Asking consumers what they would like to buy is not always […] Read more
young brown or red calf in straw
Cow-Calf, News, News Roundup

Veal code of practice out for comment

Animal Welfare: News Roundup from the November 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The committee working on updating Canada’s Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Veal Cattle is on target to publish a draft following its seventh and final meeting in late October. A start date for the 60-day public comment period will be announced some time afterward by the National Farm Animal Care Council […] Read more

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