Ontario Corn Fed Beef and the attractive mobile kitchen unit proved to be a popular combination at the 18th annual Good Food Festival and Market at the International Centre in Toronto.
The impressive vehicle, known as the “There’s No Taste Like Home” Mobile Educational Trailer, was parked right inside the building for the April 23-25 exhibition.
Of all the factors that affect crop and livestock prices, the value of the Canadian dollar will be the one to watch in 2010. Ontario-based market analysts Moe Agostino and Philip Shaw stressed the importance of the stronger Canadian dollar in their presentations at the Western Fair Farm Show in London.
Agostino, marketing commodity strategist for Farms.com Risk Management, is cautiously optimistic about the livestock markets in the months ahead. The one main negative factor in his outlook is the projection for the Canadian dollar to trade at or above par with the U.S. greenback.
A guest speaker at the recent Ontario Cattlemen’s Association annual meeting says a different type of consumer will emerge from the recession.
Peter Chapman, a former food retailing executive, presented his view of retail and consumer trends during the meeting. Prior to founding his current consulting firm, GPS Business Solutions in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Chapman spent 19 years with Loblaws, Canada’s largest food retailer.
Curtis Royal, a past-president of the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association, is the new president of the Ontario Cattlemen’s Association.
The Simcoe County beef producer took the helm of the OCA at the annual general meeting February 24 in Toronto.
Of the many issues challenging the beef industry, Royal says working with the Ontario Agriculture Sustainability Coalition will continue to be a key priority. “We’ll continue take our message forward about the state of the industry and we’re also going to do more work on the risk management side to develop a good, sustainable risk management plan for all sectors of our industry,” says Royal.
We, at the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association, realize the growing importance of using the internet in the day-to-day lives of people in our Industry. With an ever-changing environment in production agriculture, we all want to be as
Dr. Ron Hanson, an agri-business professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a leading speaker on farm succession planning, says he didn’t come to Canada to make friends. The goal of Hanson’s presentation at the Beef Industry Convention was to help save farms and, more importantly, save families. Unfortunately, both are often lost when the farm succession process goes terribly wrong.
The panel at the 2010 Beef Industry Convention produced a lively and fascinating discussion on many national and international issues that affect farmers. This year’s panel was moderated by Globe & Mail political columnist John Ibbitson (centre) and featured University of Nebraska-Lincoln agri-business professor Dr. Ron Hanson (left) and Alex Avery (right), director of research and education for the Virginia-based Center for Global Food Issues.
The Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association fears that a sharp rise in U.S. imports will continue to weigh heavily on the province’s beef producers in the coming year. OCFA President Bob Brander (pictured left) and OCFA Executive Director Jim Clark (right) expressed concerns about the issue during their presentations at the 12th Annual Beef Industry Convention in London.