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Shareholders press Yum for stricter antibiotics policy

By GFM Network News August 9, 2016

Los Angeles | Reuters — Yum Brands investors on Tuesday filed a shareholder proposal requesting that it quickly phase out harmful antibiotic use in its meat supply, taking aim at the practices of the company’s KFC fried chicken chain. The proposal from shareholder activists As You Sow, of Oakland, Calif., and the Sisters of St. […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Wendy’s aims for antibiotic-free chicken by next year

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 4, 2016

U.S. fast food chain Wendy’s aims to source all of its chicken products from birds raised without the use of antibiotics “important to human medicine” by 2017. Columbus, Ohio-based Wendy’s, the world’s No. 3 burger chain behind McDonald’s and Burger King, said in a blog post Wednesday about 50 per cent of its chicken supply […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Reuters

McDonald’s to remove corn syrup from buns

By GFM Network News August 1, 2016

Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. will replace corn syrup in hamburger buns with sugar this month and has removed antibiotics that are important to human medicine from its chicken months ahead of schedule, it said Monday, moves that are part of its drive to target increasingly health-conscious consumers. The fast food company also said it eliminated […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures shrug off early selling

By GFM Network News July 18, 2016

Chicago / Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts settled higher on Monday after short-covering and futures’ discounts to late last week’s cash prices offset early-session losses, traders said. August live cattle ended 1.525 cents per lb higher at 112.450 cents, and finished above the 20-day moving average of 112.05 cents. October closed 0.775 cent […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 12, 2016

The last of Canada’s temporary avian flu-related rules against cross-border travellers bringing in poultry and/or eggs from the U.S. has been lifted. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, live birds, raw poultry, eggs and certain other raw or less-than-cooked poultry products originating in Indiana may again be brought into Canada. Lifted effective June 27, […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Bird flu control zone set up around Ontario duck farm

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 8, 2016

About 14,000 commercial ducks at a farm west of St. Catharines, Ont. are being euthanized following confirmation of a low-pathogenic strain of H5N2 avian flu in the flock. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday confirmed the influenza subtype, the day after announcing the low-path H5 flu outbreak, the resulting quarantine and the plans for […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Ontario duck farm catches low-path avian flu

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 7, 2016

All the birds on a commercial duck farm in southern Ontario’s Niagara region are about to be euthanized after some were confirmed with a less severe form of avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Thursday said the strain of avian influenza found in the birds on the farm is a low-pathogenic (“low-path”) […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Trump vows to renegotiate or withdraw from trade deals

By GFM Network News June 28, 2016

Reuters — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday promised to renegotiate international trade deals, withdraw from them if he is not satisfied and use executive power to remedy trade disputes with China if he wins the White House. Trump, speaking at an aluminum scrap metal factory in Monessen, Pa., south of Pittsburgh, said he […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

Loonie tanks post-Brexit, but benefits minimal for farmers

By GFM Network News June 27, 2016

CNS Canada — The Canadian dollar slipped after Britain voted Thursday to leave the European Union, a trend which one financial analyst expects to continue in an otherwise uncertain environment. But the loonie hasn’t fallen far enough to bring support to Canadian commodity markets. “Short-term, we’re going to be dealing with the day-to-day volatility and […] Read more

These sheep have figured out the black plastic pipe on the wall holds minerals.

Cattleman’s Corner

Hoping a simple PVC feeder saves money

Pipe feeder should help protect the minerals and take up less space

By Debbie Chikousky June 21, 2016

Over the years we have utilized many different delivery systems for feeding salt and mineral supplements to our small ruminants and feed to our poultry. The focus has always been on waste control and low investment cost for the device. Along with the level of waste by spillage there has always been an issue with […] Read more

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

Poultry

Shareholders press Yum for stricter antibiotics policy

Wendy’s aims for antibiotic-free chicken by next year

McDonald’s to remove corn syrup from buns

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures shrug off early selling

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

Bird flu control zone set up around Ontario duck farm

Ontario duck farm catches low-path avian flu

Trump vows to renegotiate or withdraw from trade deals

Loonie tanks post-Brexit, but benefits minimal for farmers

Hoping a simple PVC feeder saves money

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