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1. Receiver flushes out Quality Meat Packers assets

   ... in the Great Lakes Specialty Meats bankruptcy June 10 after Farm Credit Canada, a major secured creditor for that company, applied to have ... reply The four day work week was the real Notice of Intention,the filing was just a ...

   dstoneman - Jul 24 2014 - 23:17 - 2 comments

2. Raid on PKI headquarters triggered by fears of starving birds

   ... became public, telling holding barn operators they were on their own and he wouldn't be supplying feed, the Ontario SPCA became concerned. ... She directed Better Farming to speak to the Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC), which she said is the "lead organization" in making ...

   dstoneman - Mar 19 2012 - 18:56

3. COOL faces court challenge

   ... they exceed the authority granted to the USDA in the 2008 Farm Bill. The Pork Council says in its Tuesday press release there have ... the Canadian livestock sector have exceeded $1 billion per year since 2008 due to price declines, lost sales and added costs. That damage ...

   Mary Baxter - Jul 10 2013 - 16:23 - 1 comment

4. Sales barn operator convictions termed a ‘coincidence’

   ... of Justice in St. Thomas after pleading guilty to a total of four charges under the Livestock Community Sales Act. Those charges stemmed ... Crystal Mackay, executive director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council, says a report delivered during a meeting with ministry ...

   dstoneman - Mar 24 2010 - 14:30 - 0 comments

5. Ontario’s environmental commissioner calls for neonic phase out

   ... could be doing more to ensure farmers, first, scale back their use of neonicotinoids and “then eventually, of course, I’d like to ... integrate their key success factors into the ministry’s farm educational materials and research priorities. “One of those farmers ...

   Mary Baxter - Oct 7 2014 - 20:19 - 2 comments

6. Dairy farmers wait for processors' response on policy reforms

   ... and shared it with processors across the country last year. The plan comprises eight policy elements designed to act as a strategy to ... to be growth “measured in kilograms of butterfat at the farm level. We will know they’ve succeeded when your quota grows as a result ...

   Mary Baxter - Jan 16 2015 - 16:18 - 15 comments

7. Pigeon King's interim receivership order stands, bankruptcy on hold

   ... Wiersma.   Wiersma, of Fishersville, Ontario, is one of four creditor-appointed inspectors in the PKI bankruptcy. He claims there’s ... Yes, just imagine thousands and 10's of thousands more farm families losing their life savings and their farms all over the world and ...

   editor - Apr 5 2012 - 15:26 - 3 comments

8. Avian flu surveillance program debuts this summer

   ... million worth of processed products. This is the first year the CFIA will monitor for AI in domestic birds. The agency has worked with ... that virus to mutate,” she says. Adjacent flocks on the farm will also be tested and could be ordered destroyed. However, farms ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 5 2012 - 14:17 - 0 comments

9. Reducing red tape a priority for Ontario’s Tories

   ... The average farmer annually spends about 154 hours, or four standard work weeks, filling out government forms, according to the ... Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with proper farm training, independent oversight and increased consultation with ...

   Mary Baxter - Jun 7 2014 - 08:01 - 0 comments

10. Grain prices may bump higher for an unexpected reason

    Throughout most of the past four years, while the U.S. and European economies have wrestled with recession ... it was trading at on May 1 and where it might finish the year. This development is actually great news for Ontario agriculture. We ... cash basis, both of which should be useful for gross farm revenue. Just don’t plan on going south next winter . . . Besides, ...

    Mary Baxter - May 10 2013 - 15:03 - 0 comments