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CHILLIWACK – BC’s privacy watchdog has rejected a bid to outfit farm workers with body cameras intended to reduce livestock abuse, saying companies need to follow specific protocols before they do so. An undercover video by


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bird turkey stocks are dropping but storage stocks are still higher than either growers or processors would like. As a result, Turkey Farmers of Canada is reviewing the methodology in its quota allocation process. “Our allocation process


hasn’t been reviewed in over a decade,” BC’s TFC director Vic Redekop told growers at their meeting in Surrey, October 24.


Recent attempts to reduce


the national turkey quota have failed because BC and other western provinces oppose pro rata reductions. Redekop pointed out the glut of storage is in Ontario and Quebec, inferring that is where production needs to be reduced. Meanwhile, the BC Turkey


Marketing Board plans to increase efforts to market turkey to BC’s growing ethnic population. “We will conduct a


marketing program in the spring aimed at the Asian market,” BCTMB vice-chair Les


Burm said. The $150,000 campaign will be funded equally by the BCTMB and the Investment Agriculture Foundation Buy Local program. “We are studying how we can encourage turkey usage by Asians who are mostly unfamiliar with it,” he said. Growers also got a primer on antibiotic use in poultry feeds from Ritchie Smith Feeds nutritionist Dr. Mike Leslie. The preventative use of Class 1 drugs (those most


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Mercy for Animals – the same activist group that used hidden cameras to secure footage of animal abuse at another Chilliwack company, Chilliwack Cattle Sales, in 2014 – led to the termination of several employees at


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