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Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))

Bovine TB case turns up in southern B.C.

By Dave Bedard November 19, 2018

Federal food safety officials are now looking into the life story of a slaughtered British Columbia beef cow confirmed with bovine tuberculosis. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced it has launched an investigation after a mature beef cow was confirmed Nov. 9 with bovine TB. The case comes a few months after the […] Read more

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Japan resumes Canadian wheat purchases

By Reuters July 20, 2018

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan’s agriculture ministry said Friday it had resumed purchases of Canadian wheat after testing showed no imports that reached the country included grain containing a genetically modified trait discovered in Alberta last summer. Japan’s agriculture ministry said it was seeking to buy 62,957 tonnes of food-quality Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Extended-tolerance canola now on deck for 2019

By Dave Bedard May 17, 2018

Giving growers a wider window to spray in-crop weeds with glyphosate, the new platform for Monsanto’s future canola trait stacks is now booked to make its way into the Canadian market next year. The U.S. seed and chemical company’s Canadian arm announced last week it plans to commercialize TruFlex canola in 2019, following plot trials […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe officially closed

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff May 3, 2018

An investigation across three provinces following the appearance of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in six Prairie cattle in 2016 has officially closed with no further cases found. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported receiving the last of the lab culture test results on about 30,000 animals tested during its probe. “All of the results […] Read more

Southern Ontario wine grapes on the vine. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Grapes

‘Cellared in Canada’ wine label on way out

By Dave Bedard April 2, 2018

An often-used euphemism for wines made in Canada from blends using imported product is set to disappear from wine labels. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced the voluntary statement “Cellared in Canada” will no longer be used on labels for wines blended in Canada, as per revisions made in March to the agency’s wine […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

CFIA seeks ‘fundamental change’ in chicken processing

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff, GFM Network News March 28, 2018

Canada’s chicken processors have a year to make plant-level changes to cut the risk of salmonella infection from frozen raw breaded chicken goods. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said March 12 it will require processors to identify salmonella as a hazard likely to occur in these products — and to “implement changes in order to […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 12, 2018

The mystery of how six Prairie cattle caught a Mexican strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB) is now expected to remain a mystery indefinitely. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced quarantines have been lifted from all Prairie cattle operations tested during its probe of a bovine TB outbreak beginning in the fall of 2016. […] Read more

A file photo of BASF’s citral manufacturing plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany. (Photo courtesy BASF SE)

Livestock

Feed manufacturers to retool recipes under vitamin shortage

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 22, 2017

Feed manufacturers up against a global shortage of vitamins A and E will be able to temporarily reformulate their products for sale in Canada without a complete rewrite of their product labels. The shortage stems from an Oct. 31 fire during the startup of an aroma chemicals plant operated by global chemical firm BASF in […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 19, 2017

On-farm testing work has wrapped on all the cattle herds that supplied animals in the past five years to an Alberta herd that turned up six cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the fall of 2016. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported Tuesday it has completed on-farm testing of those “trace-in” herds, which include […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Ontario processor fined for faux-kosher cheese

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff July 8, 2017

An Ontario food processing company has been slapped with $25,000 in fines for labelling non-kosher cheese as kosher, in the first Canadian case of its kind to get to a provincial court. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported Creation Foods Co. of Woodbridge had pled guilty June 22 in the Ontario Court of […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as Cattle on Feed report shows lower inventory

Canadian cattle herd sees first year-over-year increase since 2021

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend gains to two-month peak; corn and wheat choppy

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as Cattle on Feed report shows lower inventory

Canadian cattle herd sees first year-over-year increase since 2021

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend gains to two-month peak; corn and wheat choppy

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Bovine TB case turns up in southern B.C.

Japan resumes Canadian wheat purchases

Extended-tolerance canola now on deck for 2019

Bovine TB probe officially closed

‘Cellared in Canada’ wine label on way out

CFIA seeks ‘fundamental change’ in chicken processing

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Feed manufacturers to retool recipes under vitamin shortage

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

Ontario processor fined for faux-kosher cheese

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