The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has suspended the licence held by Morales Food Ltd. of Montreal.
The CFIA said Morales failed to identify and analyze food safety hazards and failed to develop and implement a food safety plan.
The company imports exotic foods.
The United States Department of Agriculture is releasing $13.2 billion in crop subsidies for 2025 just days before the federal elections.
The payments will vary by state and county.
This is a record high farm subsidy under two federal crop programs, yet is less than th $13.9 billion estimated earlier.
Rice subsidies are the highest and are estimated at $120 per base acre for medium-grain and $344 for long-grain. Rice estimates could still shift because final prices for the three rice types have not been set.
Maud Murray has been chosen acting deputy minister for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness.
She is also deputy minister of Red Tape Reduction.
“She brings extensive leadership experience to the role, including work supporting small businesses and economic growth across Ontario,” Michelle DiEmanuele, secretary of the cabinet, said Tuesday on social media.
Murray is a lawyer and served as the agriculture ministry’s deputy legal director from 2013 to 2015.
John Kelly is retiring after six years as deputy agriculture minister.
Agriculture now has two new people at the top. Sam Oosterhof, who was the youngest person elected to the Ontario legislature, was recently appointed agriculture minister.
Paul Hoekstra has been named executive director of Agri-Food Strategy and Partnerships, a new position at the University of Guelph.
Hoekstra has been vice-president of strategic development for Grain Farmers of Ontario since 2020.
His main job at University of Guelph will be advancing the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a province-wide platform for agri-food research, training and innovation.
Hoekstra holds a PhD in environmental biology from the University of Guelph and a bachelor of science (B.Sc.) from the University of Waterloo.
Swine Health Ontario reported an outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus at a hog finishing barn in the Waterloo Region.
It is the first outbreak in Ontario since September 10.
Perth County is open for applications for its Stewardship Program Spring 2027.
Past experience indicates the money will soon be snapped up.
The grant program "supports local landowners and community groups in enhancing the natural environment through projects focused on planting windbreaks, block plantings, forest restoration, forest health assessments, and community tree sale events," said a posting on the county website.
Since 2024, the Stewardship Program has had 99 project applications, planted 28,429 trees, and 43 kilometers of windbreaks across Perth County. The 2027 program offers four grant streams:
· Forest Management: supporting management strategies for woodlots and woodlands.
· Living Snow Fence: supporting rural landowners planting trees along roads to make a windbreak.
· Landowner Tree Planting.
· Community Tree Planting: supporting non-profit community groups that plant trees on public lands.
Because Canadian Food Inspection testing detected Listeria monocytogenes food-poisoning bacteria, 11 organic cheeses distributed across Canada are on recall.
Four were from Farm Boy stores and six from L'Ancêtre.
There have been no reports of illnesses linked to these cheeses.
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