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Canadian health authorities are trying to stamp out fears of a mad cow disease outbreak, saying three patients with suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease did not get sick from eating contaminated beef. One person has died and two others remain gravely il...

Ahead of the G8 Summit in Fermanagh later this month, IFA President John Bryan warned against a trade deal that would inflict severe damage on the Irish and European livestock sector as a result of a substantial increase in beef imports from an EU-Canada trade deal.

CANADA – Foot safety improvement efforts from the government responding to XL Foods product recall have been supported by the Market Development organisation, Canadian Beef Inc.

CANADA – Cattle have had to be sold at auction in Saskatchewan following the arrest of two farmers after Animal Rights officers discovered 300 animals in ‘distress’ on an Assiniboia farm.

CANADA - The process to renew the Canadian Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Beef Cattle through the National Farm Animal Care Council is entering the final stages, with the final code on track to be released later this summer.

An independent report has concluded the largest beef recall in Canada's history could have been prevented, finding a "weak food safety culture" and "relaxed attitude" to safety protocol at the XL Foods plant where the tainted meat was processed.

CANADA – Canadian beef producers will now benefit from full market access to Chile for beef exports, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has confirmed.

EXCLUSIVE: A MAD cow expert has raised the alarm over beef imports from Europe, urging Australia not to "lower its guard" against it.        

EXCLUSIVE: A MAD cow expert has raised the alarm over beef imports from Europe, urging Australia not to "lower its guard" against it.

EXCLUSIVE: A MAD cow expert has raised the alarm over beef imports from Europe, urging Australia not to "lower its guard" against it.

CANADA - Crested wheat grass, fall rye and winter triticale are great for early spring growth but farmers should not be rushing cattle onto pasture, says Grant Lastiwka, forage expert at Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development.

CANADA - Cattle tracing efforts, feed bans and testing programmes have led to confidence in Canadian beef, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association (CCA) announced on Monday, the tenth anniversary since the bovine spongiform encephalopathy outbreak.

Holy cow! It's mad cow! The reaction from many people to the confirmation of one case of "mad cow" disease in Canada was one of overreaction. As one of the largest beef processing and producing states in the nation, the story received a l...

CANADA - With the recent long winter, on some farms and ranches hay supplies are short or completely used up. In some areas of the province, purchasing hay is not an option, so some producers are turning cows out on banked grass that was not grazed last fall because of the early snowfall.

Most doors have reopened to Canadian beef, but industry has contracted significantly in 10 years.

Alberta's beef industry is still in decline, with Canadians eating less of the meat and fewer producers raising cattle 10 years after BSE, or mad cow disease, savaged the industry.

What would eventually become one of the worst crises in Canadian agriculture history began quietly in late January 2003, when Marwyn Peaster, a former catfish farmer from Mississippi trying his hand at cattle ranching in Alberta, sent a sick cow to a l...

As Jason Bradley saddles his horse to ride out to check on a herd of Scottish Highland cattle, he relays a bit of homespun lore. “There’s an analogy as a cowboy. If you’re not looking where you’re riding, if you’re just always looking behind ...

Federally registered meat plants will be required to put new labels on tenderized beef in order to make it safer for consumers, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says.

CANADA – Cattle producers in Quebec and eastern Canada will see a drop in their carcase disposal and handling costs thanks to the opening of a biomass boiler plant at the Sanimax rendering facility in Lévis.