Cattle ordered destroyed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be eligible for more compensation, the federal government said.
The maximum amount for purebreds has been increased from $10,000 to $16,500 and for non-registured cattle from $4,500 to $10,000.
Kerry Wright will take over as executive director of the Ontario Soil and Crop Association on July 28.
The Ontario Soil and Crop Association advocates for farmers and has been chosen by federal and provincial governments to administer a number of subsidy programs.
The association cited Wright’s career in strategic planning, marketing, communications, governance and management.
She has worked for the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, the Canadian Agri-food Automation & Intelligence Network (CAAIN) and Mallot Creek Group.
The Thamesvfille Threshing Festival this weekend will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
There will be a parade on Friday, a midway and a drone show.
Publicity for the event features a long list of attractions, but not threshing machines.
Stu and Kim Lang of Guelph are donating $10 million towards a building at Lakehead University for the joint veterinarian training project with the University of Guelph.
Kim Lang said she has long been interested in animal welfare and wants to help address the “crucial” veterinary shortage in Northern Ontario.
"They do go up into Indigenous communities and take care of animals up there," she said.
"One of them is just about three hours north of Thunder Bay, so I thought this was a great place to start because there is such a shortage of vets."
Under the joint venture, students spend two years at Lakehead and two at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College.
Stu Lang was head coach of the University of Guelph’s football team, the Guelph Gryphons.
The couple founded the Community Healthcare Partnership Program (CHPP) which identifies, understands and removes barriers to healthcare for companion animals in under-resourced and made-vulnerable communities, its website says.
Remember about four years ago when farmers were complaining about the lack of competition among meat packers and then-president Joe Biden prescribed multi-million-dollar subsidies to entice investment?
How things have changed!
Last week packers lost $278.44 per head, according to Sterling Marketing’s weekly Beef Profit Tracker by Drovers.
Losses have been hovering at a level of nearly $300 per head, according to calculations covering a week earlier and a month earlier. A year ago packers were taking losses of $82.22 per head.
Steer and heifer slaughter declines by 4.2 per cent from the week earlier, to 453,096 head. Total beef production dropped the same percentage to 484.9 million pounds from the week-earlier total.
Slaughter is at 76.8 of plant capacity, down from 80.1 per cent the week earlier, and compared with 78.8 per cent capacity a month ago.
Choice steer prices averaged $239.91 per hundredweight while breakeven prices for finished cattle were $179.98 per hundredweight, supporting feedlot margins of $839.06 per head, up by 10.9 per cent from a week ago and 124 per cent from a year ago.
The Senate has passed Bill C-202 and “Canada’s dairy, poultry and egg farmers welcome any effort aimed at ensuring no further supply managed concessions are made in trade negotiations,” said a news release from the marketing agencies.
“We won,” said Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet enthusiastically, hours after the Senate adopted his party’s bill.
But Senator Paul Simons said “It does seem strange to allow a separatist party to set Canada’s national trade policy to such an extent.”
It will have an immediate impact on negotiations with United States President Donald Trump, which seemed to make progress during the G-7 meeting in Alberta this week, and upcoming negotiations with the European Union where Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is this week.
Negotiations with the United Kingdom are another sensitive issue for supply management.
Livestock farmers can't be happy that Canadian trade negotiators will face even greater difficulty persuading countries to lower their trade barriers to Canadian meats, especially pork.