Dr. Vincent Amanour-Boadu shared the following tips on how to position yourself for success in the global marketplace with participants at the Making Tough Decisions in Tough Times conference:

Increase and sustain industry share of plate and market. Consumers are not loyal and will buy from wherever they think their needs are being met. Find a [...]

Meeting the needs of a finicky consumer is hard – but essential for success in the evolving global marketplace. And it’s something farmers need to start committing to, according to a popular agricultural economist from Kansas State University.
“We need to understand consumer needs and how ungrateful they are,” said Dr. Vincent Amanour-Boadu as he [...]

If producers don’t survive, the rest of the industry won’t either.
That’s the blunt message Canadian Pork Council president Clare Schlegel is hoping the government will hear loud and clear. The Canadian livestock industry has been battling an economic crisis since last summer, when Canada’s high-flying currency helped sink cattle and hog prices and drive up [...]

Farming is a tough business. I’ve been around agriculture all my life and it seems as though one sector or another is always hurting.
Right now, grains and oilseeds (crops grown for their oil such as soybeans, canola, sunflowers etc) farmers are enjoying record high demand for their crops – and the high prices to [...]

Now you can know for sure.
There’s a new, fool-proof way of determining whether the steak you’re eating came from a cloned animal using DNA barcoding technology.
This statement was made by an Irish scientist at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston this week. According to Professor Patrick Cunningham, DNA tracking [...]

Tough decisions about their businesses and their futures are facing many livestock farmers these days. But there may be some help on the horizon – a one day conference in London this week is designed to help them with those decisions.
The Ontario Pork Industry Council is hosting a day-long information meeting for beef, pork [...]

A Canadian-made cattle vaccine against a deadly form of e.coli has been given a conditional licence for sale by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Developed in Canada and already conditionally approved for sale in this country, this vaccine is the first that can be used on-farm to reduce the shedding of e.coli 0157:H7 bacteria [...]