Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald has wrapped up a multi-day visit to Alberta during the Calgary Stampede, meeting with producers, processors, industry leaders and agricultural stakeholders.<\/p>\n
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says MacDonald travelled through Alberta from July 5 to 9, with stops focused on the province\u2019s crop, beef, forage, agri-business and food processing sectors.<\/p>\n
The visit included tours of farms, ranches, feedyard operations, agri-food businesses and agricultural processing sites.<\/p>\n
Producers and industry groups consulted<\/p>\n
During the trip, MacDonald met with Alberta producers and stakeholders to discuss issues and opportunities facing the agriculture and agri-food sector.<\/p>\n
His schedule included consultations with Alberta\u2019s crop sector, meetings with beef and forage representatives, and stops at local farms and ranches.<\/p>\n
MacDonald also visited an agricultural innovation hub to learn more about farm-focused innovation taking place in the region.<\/p>\n
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Stampede meetings held<\/p>\n
MacDonald attended industry events tied to the Calgary Stampede, including the International Livestock Congress.<\/p>\n
He met with regional, national and international industry leaders to discuss the livestock sector and continued engagement with crop, beef and business communities.<\/p>\n
While at the Stampede grounds, MacDonald also met with producers, agri-businesses and stakeholders, and made a funding announcement in support of the beef sector.<\/p>\n
Processing and veterinary medicine also highlighted<\/p>\n
The federal agriculture minister also met with agri-food processors and manufacturers to learn more about value-added wholesale, retail and foodservice operations.<\/p>\n
His Alberta visit included a stop at the University of Calgary\u2019s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for discussions on animal welfare, injury prevention, equine medicine and precision-based farming tools.<\/p>\n
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says the outreach was aimed at hearing directly from Alberta\u2019s agriculture sector while supporting Canada\u2019s producers, processors and food system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald has wrapped up a multi-day visit to Alberta during the Calgary Stampede, meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-796125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}