The Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council is hosting a special Beef Producers Forum to survey cattle farmers and industry stakeholders about the challenges and opportunities facing our industry today.
The results of the half day session will help MCEC as it prepares its strategic plan for the future. The forum will feature some great speakers participants consider how the Manitoba industry can make its way in an increasingly competitive and intertwined global marketplace. MCEC is looking for Manitoba cattle producers to tell them in their own words how MCEC should prepare itself for the years to come.
Speakers include:
- Charlie Gracey, former head of the CCA,
- Todd Churchill, founder of the Thousand Hills Cattle Co., and
- Ted Bilyea, former executive with Maple Leaf International.
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Manitoba cattle, Uncategorized
Beef Producers Forum, CCA, Charlie Gracey, Maple Leaf, MCEC, Ted Bilyea, Thousand Hills Cattle Co., Todd Churchill
We were thrilled with the response from our recent Facebook fan contest where we gave away a free variety pack of premium Natural Prairie Beef. So much so, we decided to reward our whole ‘fan base’ with a sale on all of our steaks.
All of our steaks are 15% off until November 30.
You can buy them in person (663 Marion St.), by phone (204) 235-0454, or online. Read more…
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Facebook, steak sale
Our sale on 85% lean ground beef ends on Sunday. It’s only $2.29/lb. Get yours today. The beef is our Natural Prairie Beef brand, which means it was raised without hormones on wide open Manitoba farms.
Buy it online.
By phone: 235-0454
Or in person: 663 Marion St., Monday to Friday 9-6, Saturday 11-3.
Buy Local, Natural beef, Online shopping, Retail locations, Uncategorized
ground beef sale, Natural Prairie Beef
Since we started selling roasts online and at our Marion St. plant, we’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to cook them. It seems that a few moms (or dads) forgot to pass along some comfort food recipes over the past generation.
The good news is that beef roasts are about the easiest dish you can prepare. You get maximum taste and “show” for minimum time and effort. We recommend using a slow cooker, but you can pop them in your oven too.
Here’s a great resource for how to cook roasts from the Canadian Beef Information Centre, and you’ll find a good video on preparing roasts on the right side of this page. Read more…
Nutrition, Online shopping, Recipes, Retail locations
Canadian Beef Informaton Centre, roast beef
The Cattlemen’s Beef Board in the U.S. has launched an interesting campaign to fight misinformation about the beef industry. They’re calling it the “Food Fight” and it aims to mobilize people in the cattle and dairy industries to counter some of the incorrect or misleading information that seems to be reported more and more these days.
One of the main points they’re raising is the myth that farms are all dominated by heartless, mindless corporations. Farmers in the U.S. and Canada are bombarded daily with accusations that we mistreat our animals and pollute the environment. Read more…
Environment, Manitoba cattle
Cattlemen's Beef Board
Keystone Processors Ltd. is very pleased to announce that we’ve joined the Better Business Bureau of Manitoba. The BBB and its members have a vision of: ”An ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other.”
The BBB promotes marketplace trust by:
- Creating a community of trustworthy businesses
- Setting standards for marketplace trust
- Encouraging and supporting best practices
- Celebrating marketplace role models, and;
- Denouncing substandard marketplace behavior
At Keystone Processors, we’re dedicated to developing a strong, credible brand for selling high quality Manitoba beef. We already meet or exceed all provincial standards for food safety and are in the process of upgrading our plant to meet Canadian, U.S. and European standards for export too. Meanwhile, we are already a leader in our field on traceability, an important food safety and customer service protocol that allows us to trace each product we sell back to its original farm.
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Food safety, Kosher and Halal, Manitoba cattle, Traceability, Uncategorized
Better Business Bureau
Farmer-owned company to market premium beef from Manitoba farms to the world
Winnipeg, November 2, 2009 – The employees and investors of Keystone Processors Ltd. welcomed Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to their plant today as he announced his government has conditionally approved the farmer-owned company for a loan of up to $10 million.
Additionally, Manitoba Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Rosann Wowchuk joined Minister Ritz to announce that the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council would increase its investment in the plant by up to an additional $7.5 million. The money will be used to upgrade the former pork plant on Marion Street into a federally-licensed beef slaughter and processing plant.
“These funds are critical for us to move forward with significant plant upgrades, which will eventually allow us to export Manitoba beef across the country and around the world,” said Kelly Penner, President and CEO of Keystone Processors Ltd. “Our company represents Manitoba farmers taking control of their destiny by owning every part of the value chain from farm gate to our customers’ plates.” Read more…
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kelly penner, MCEC, Minister Gerry Ritz, Minister Rosann Wowchuk
