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Canada blocks poultry, eggs from U.S. Northwest

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 9, 2015

Birds, eggs and poultry products from Washington and Oregon are being kept out of Canada after findings of high-path avian flu in a pair of backyard flocks in those states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Dec. 24 reported highly pathogenic (“high-path”) H5N2 avian flu in a backyard free-range flock of geese, turkeys, chickens, ducks […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery, Poultry/Eggs

Poultry, captive bird movements now limited in southern B.C.

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 8, 2014

Movements of birds, poultry products and poultry farm equipment are under new restrictions in the area where five poultry farms in British Columbia have been quarantined with avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced a new “primary control zone” in the entire southern half of B.C. south of Highway 16, split in […] Read more

Livestock

When bovine tuberculosis is suspected

By Debbie Furber October 10, 2014

CFIA’s current tuberculosis-testing protocol starts with a caudal tail fold (CTF) test, where tuberculin is delivered intradermally into the loose skin along the side of the tailhead. Seventy-two hours later, the cattle have to be presented again for examination. Animals with suspicious CFT surface reactions have blood taken for a bovigram test. A positive bovigram leads […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Bovine tuberculosis surveillance gets a facelift

A case of bovine TB in Manitoba’s domestic herd hasn't been seen since 2008

By Debbie Furber October 10, 2014

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is wrapping up an ambitious round of bovine tuberculosis testing of cattle, wild elk and deer in and around Riding Mountain National Park in west-central Manitoba as the first step in easing TB surveillance measures for producers living in this area. It can’t come soon enough for the producers […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Comment, Livestock

Editorial: Grading beefs

Those seeking quick changes to grade standards will likely be disappointed

By Gren Winslow September 23, 2014

The stars seem finally to be aligned to revise the Canadian beef-grading system, but don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen. The last revision was in 1992 and a lot has changed since then. That in itself clearly has not been enough to force a change. The Canadian Beef Grading Agency (CBGA) has […] Read more

Features

Has traceability fallen off the track?

By Debbie Furber September 10, 2014

“What happened to recommendations from the cattle summit in Saskatoon?” was the big question of the day at the Livestock Markets Association of Canada’s annual conference this summer, after two senior Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) officials explained the reasons behind a new epidemiological assessment of three movement reporting options that weren’t in the cattle […] Read more

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Daily Network News

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Tag Archives CFIA

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from U.S. Northwest

Poultry, captive bird movements now limited in southern B.C.

When bovine tuberculosis is suspected

Bovine tuberculosis surveillance gets a facelift

Editorial: Grading beefs

Has traceability fallen off the track?

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

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