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Livestock

Livestock premises ID participation strengthens Canadian agriculture

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is considering changes to the Health of Animals Regulations for livestock traceability, the agency announced during PremisesIDWeek July 26, a federal release says. The changes would require all Canadian operators of premises where livestock may be loaded or unloaded from a vehicle to have a valid premises identification number for […] Read more
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Crops, Spring Wheat

Ottawa to back P+H’s Hamilton flour mill

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Winnipeg agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker has lined up more government financing for its planned new flour mill at Hamilton, this time from the federal level. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Thursday announced a $10 million “repayable investment” in the project from the AgriInnovation program, part of the Growing Forward 2 ag policy funding framework. […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock

Fines now an option for pig traceability enforcement

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Canadian hog producers who don’t follow the federal requirements for animal identification and tracking of animal movements could now be fined for non-compliance, though it’s expected such fines would be a “last resort.” The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday announced new amendments to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations, allowing CFIA-designated officials […] Read more
These overhead ultra-high frequency transponders can read tags as cattle pass by.
Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

New RFID tech improves livestock tag readers

New system works at greater distance and can read groups of animals

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Researchers at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary have developed a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system using Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) tags that will make it easier and faster to track and trace cattle at every stage of their movement from the farm to the processing plant. With the new system, animals do not need to go […] Read more
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Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Grants available to help with traceability programs

Traceability technology helps to track animals or food products from farm to consumer

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Traceability is a high priority for the livestock industry in Canada, and federal and provincial governments have been working in collaboration with the industry to develop a National Agriculture and Food Traceability System, primarily focusing on livestock and poultry. Traceability, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s website is the ability to follow an item or […] Read more
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Cattleman’s Corner

COOL may be the right direction

Labelling of origin and other functional characteristics will become more important

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The confirmed new case of BSE in Alberta on Feb. 13 has caused Chian, Peru, Belarus and Taiwan to place temporary restrictions on Canadian beef. South Korea temporarily suspended imports immediately after the confirmed case while Indonesia has placed temporary restrictions on some non-edible meat products. The ability to persuade or educate the consumer is […] 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 Cattlemen’s Association; Hubert Lau of ViewTrak, CEO of the new company; and Ted Power, president of ViewTrak.
Cattleman’s Corner

BIXS being rolled out to the launch pad

New private partnership to take over pasture-to-packer tracking

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A service established by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) over the past four years to carry information back and forth along the entire beef production chain is about to shed its training wheels. The Beef Information Xchange System — commonly known as BIXS — is about to begin a new era following the December announcement […] Read more

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