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Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. cuts poultry export forecast as avian flu spreads

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 9, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. government on Thursday reduced its forecasts for poultry exports by nearly six per cent from last month due partly to an accelerating outbreak of bird flu that has triggered wider-than-expected trade restrictions. The steep cuts came as the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed a second commercial flock of turkeys […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Ont. turkey farm’s avian flu confirmed as H5N2

By GFM Network News April 8, 2015

A quarantined southwestern Ontario turkey farm has been confirmed with the same strain of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian flu seen on farms in British Columbia and several U.S. states. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Wednesday that samples tested at its National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg have confirmed the virus’ subtype and […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Taiwan, Japan ban Ont. poultry over avian flu

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News April 7, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — Japan and Taiwan have imposed trade restrictions on poultry and poultry products from Ontario, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday, a day after avian flu was confirmed in the province. The government agency said a turkey farm near Woodstock, Ont. was under quarantine after the presence of H5 avian influenza […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

SW Ont. turkey farm quarantined, avian flu suspected

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 6, 2015

A quarantine has been set up at a commercial turkey farm west of Woodstock, Ont. pending the outcome of federal tests for avian flu in the flock. Ontario’s Feather Board Command Centre, the emergency response office for the province’s chicken, turkey, egg and hatchery sectors, said in a statement Monday that birds from the flock […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Canada blocking poultry from Montana, South Dakota

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 4, 2015

Canada is blocking cross-border shopping for raw poultry, eggs and live birds from another border state, after H5N2 avian flu was confirmed in central Montana on Friday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Friday expanded restrictions that block travellers to Canada from H5N2-positive states from bringing in live birds, hatching eggs, eggs, yolks, egg […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

H5N2 avian flu arrives in South Dakota

By GFM Network News April 2, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — A virulent strain of avian flu has spread for the first time to poultry in South Dakota and infected a fourth turkey flock in Minnesota, the nation’s top turkey producer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. The latest infections of H5N2 flu show the virus, which can kill almost an […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Poultry/Eggs

Same standards apply to all livestock sectors

The livestock industry as a whole is on the same track in aiming to produce a high-quality product

By Lee Hart March 31, 2015

I can’t talk much about the situation across Canada, but I certainly get the impression poultry producers in Alberta are doing their best to produce meat birds and eggs to deliver a high-quality product raised with the best production practices possible. Poultry operations don’t have a big fit with Cattleman’s Corner, but looking around the […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery, Poultry/Eggs, Weather

Ont. poultry packer back under hidden-camera spotlight

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 30, 2015

Canada’s biggest poultry processor is back under animal welfare activists’ scrutiny with hidden-camera footage alleging more mishandling of birds at one of its packing plants. Maple Lodge Farms, which in September 2013 was convicted under the federal Health of Animals Act over birds’ exposure to cold weather during transport, said Saturday it’s paying “prompt attention” […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 27, 2015

The quarantine has been lifted at the last of the 13 farms in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley known to have been infected with highly-pathogenic avian flu. The farm, a 53,000-bird table egg layer operation at Langley, B.C., was confirmed Dec. 13 with high-path H5N2 avian flu. At the end of a 21-day waiting period following […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 27, 2015

The vacant pork slaughterhouse formerly known as Great Lakes Specialty Meats is now expected to restart as a turkey processing plant by year’s end. Meat processor Sofina Foods bought the 78,000-square foot plant and property at Mitchell, Ont., about 60 km west of Kitchener, for $4.77 million last September, after Great Lakes entered receivership in June. […] Read more

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Poultry/Eggs

U.S. cuts poultry export forecast as avian flu spreads

Ont. turkey farm’s avian flu confirmed as H5N2

Taiwan, Japan ban Ont. poultry over avian flu

SW Ont. turkey farm quarantined, avian flu suspected

Canada blocking poultry from Montana, South Dakota

H5N2 avian flu arrives in South Dakota

Same standards apply to all livestock sectors

Ont. poultry packer back under hidden-camera spotlight

Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

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