Building on the value-added chain has long been a priority of many involved in Alberta’s agricultural industry. Back in 2005, an attempt was made to accomplish that for the beef industry, as a producer-owned plant near Balzac, Rancher’s Beef, looked to increase slaughtering
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Rich Vesta picked up his first butcher’s knife at the age of 14.
Now, after 47 years in the meat industry, he’s preparing to be the newest owner of a state-of-the-art facility in East Balzac that was intended to be a life force in Rocky View County (RVC) when it first opened its doors in 2006.
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News that a new beef processing plant will open north of Calgary is being welcomed by the industry.
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CALGARY – It was largely symbolic, but one year after the largest meat recall in Canadian history, the city of Brooks in southeastern Alberta held a celebration to mark the turning of a page.
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OTTAWA – Canada and Chile have struck a deal to open the South American country’s beef market to Canadian meat.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canadian exporters will have full access to the market in Chile as part of a new partnership between the two countries.
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OTTAWA – Canadian cattle producers say they’re pleased Japan is relaxing restrictions on imported beef from Canada and three other countries a decade after raising barriers amid the so-called mad cow disease scare.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday it will allow imports of beef from cows up to 30 months old, effective this Friday. The previous standard was to ban imports of beef from animals older than 20 months.
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The market hates uncertainty, and ranchers hate feeding cattle longer than they have to, but at the end of a year that saw major disruptions in the beef industry, cattlemen and women are feeling for the most part that strong prices helped them weather the storm.
Attendance at this year’s All-Beef Pen Show at the Medicine Hat Stampede this weekend is a good indication.
“We felt that with the industry a little softer that there wouldn’t be as many guys showing up,” said Jim Tennant, the Stampede’s manager of corporate development and marketing.
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Alberta beef as a brand hasn’t suffered long-term damage because of the E. coli outbreak at the XL processing plant in Brooks.
That was the message Ted Haney, president of Ranch 4 International, a family business Haney set up to provide management and logistical support services to meat companies, brought to Thursday’s Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs. Haney, who was born and raised in Picture Butte, also managed the Canadian Beef Export Federation for 20 years.
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WINNIPEG, MB, Oct. 20,2012/ Troy Media/ – According to Doug Sawyer, chair of the Alberta Beef Producers, JBS USA’s take-over of management – and possible future purchase – of XL Foods could have a positive influence on Canada’s cattle industry.
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