CANADA COMPENSATION
June 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the CDN$402 million handed out to Alberta beef producers following Canada's isolated BSE outbreak have been released by the prairie province's government. It said 96 per cent in federal and provincial payments went to beef ranchers (covering 836,000 cattle), with sheep, goat, bison, elk, deer, llama, alpaca, reindeer and caribou producers getting the remainder.
DETAILS of the CDN$402 million handed out to Alberta beef producers following Canada's isolated BSE outbreak have been released by the prairie province's government. It said 96 per cent in federal and provincial payments went to beef ranchers (covering 836,000 cattle), with sheep, goat, bison, elk, deer, llama, alpaca, reindeer and caribou producers getting the remainder.
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