Gerry Ritz
Beef producers welcome $3 million for federal cattle tracking system
Money will expand BIXS program linking genetic information to carcass performance
Soil conditions study garners federal funds
Canada’s ag industry welcomes CFIA changes
‘Agribusiness members had been telling us that CFIA needed to dramatically improve how it interacts with its stakeholders,’ says a Canadian Federation of Independent Business spokesperson
Federal funding supports specialized dairy exports
Industry must provide matching funding for grants to help Canadian dairy exports such as genetics and high value cheese
Korean beef ban lifted
Canadian cattle under 30 months are being allowed back into South Korea
Expert recommends surveillance to solve tainted food outbreaks
The Canadian government is trying to do its best, says food safety professor. ‘The problem is the focus is on the wrong place’
Meat producers win COOL victory
American government might still defend law that cost Canadian pig and cattle raisers ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’
Commodities a focus for Canada’s agriculture exports
New reports scrutinize the country’s agricultural export industry and its prospects
Mitchell refuses federal provincial agreement
Ontario's agriculture minister throws down the gauntlet at a federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers meeting
photo: Carol Mitchell