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Ukraine opens to more Canadian beef imports

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 22, 2015

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and International Trade Minister Ed Fast have announced the Ukrainian market has opened for beef from cattle under 30 months of age and ready-to-eat meat. In 2014 Ukraine lifted a ban on imports of other Canadian beef products imposed after Canada reported a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003. A […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Fruit/Vegetables, Grapes, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada preparing shorter list of tariff targets in COOL fight

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 2, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat-labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday. The Canadian government is likely to target beef, pork, California wines, mattresses, cherries and office furniture, possibly along with other goods, from […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Peru, Taiwan, Belarus ban Canadian beef over BSE case

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 23, 2015

Reuters — Three more countries have blocked imports of Canadian beef or beef products, following Canada’s discovery of BSE earlier this month, its first in four years. Taiwan, Peru and Belarus have imposed trade restrictions on beef and/or beef products, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Monday in an update on its website. The […] Read more

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Ireland says China agrees to lift ban on Irish beef

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 20, 2015

Dublin | Reuters –– China has agreed to lift its ban on Irish beef, Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Friday, making it the only European country to be allowed to export beef to both the U.S. and China. Ireland last month became the first European Union country to regain access to the lucrative U.S. […] Read more

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West Coast port impasse beefs up U.S. meat stockpile

By GFM Network News February 19, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. meat exporters caught in the middle of the West Coast port labour standoff diverted millions of pounds of chilled pork and beef into cold storage facilities over the last few weeks, creating an oversupply of meat, analysts said. Redirected protein shipments come as frozen inventories are starting to build ahead […] Read more

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Brazil exported 3.3 per cent more beef in 2014, industry says

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 8, 2015

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil, the world’s top beef exporter, shipped 1.56 million tonnes of meat abroad in 2014, 3.3 per cent more than it did in 2013, industry association Abiec said on Thursday. Volumes exported were near the 2007 record of 1.62 million tonnes. Beef exports by value were a record US$7.2 billion […] Read more

Key players at the news conference announcing the new company to deliver BIXS include (from left) Larry Thomas, national co-ordinator of BIXS; Rob McNabb, general manager of the Canadian Cattleman’s Association; Hubert Lau of ViewTrak, CEO of the new company; and Ted Power, president of ViewTrak. (Lee Hart photo)

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New company set up to deliver BIXS livestock data system

By Lee Hart, GFM Network News December 8, 2014

A new company — a partnership between the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) and livestock technology company ViewTrak — plans to bring the newborn unsteadiness of an information exchange network to a full gallop for all Canadian livestock sectors. The as-yet unnamed private company was formed to bring the CCA’s beef information exchange system, BIXS, to […] Read more

Equipment such as this offal blow tank at Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex plant was sold to buyers onsite and online on Dec. 2. (BidSpotter.com)

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Shuttered Que. beef plant’s equipment sold

By GFM Network News December 5, 2014

The chance of a rescue for Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant has passed, now that the facility’s equipment has been sold off piecemeal at auction. Provincial investment financing agency Investissement Quebec and other creditors still own the Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region. But the plant’s receivers sold its equipment to a consortium of […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. to appeal latest WTO loss on COOL

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 28, 2014

Canada will have to wait up to three more months before it can impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods over Washington’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat from imported livestock. The U.S. government on Friday filed a notice of appeal against the latest ruling by a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance panel, which last […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Chance remains for Que. beef plant before asset sale

By GFM Network News October 10, 2014

The equipment at Quebec’s now-shuttered Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant goes to auction in about eight weeks — but until then, its owners will entertain offers from buyers interested in rescuing the plant. The Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region, are still owned by provincial investment financing agency Investissement Quebec and […] Read more

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Ukraine opens to more Canadian beef imports

Canada preparing shorter list of tariff targets in COOL fight

Peru, Taiwan, Belarus ban Canadian beef over BSE case

Ireland says China agrees to lift ban on Irish beef

West Coast port impasse beefs up U.S. meat stockpile

Brazil exported 3.3 per cent more beef in 2014, industry says

New company set up to deliver BIXS livestock data system

Shuttered Que. beef plant’s equipment sold

U.S. to appeal latest WTO loss on COOL

Chance remains for Que. beef plant before asset sale

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