Cattlemen are learning more about Biosecurity and Food Safety as part of Canada’s on farm food safety program known as Verified Beef Production .
Producers have been attending workshops learning how to identify and deal with potential disease risks.
Coy Schellenberg is the Provincial Co-ordinator for the Program and says funding is also available through the program to help producers with their risk identification.
"As a producer attends our workshop, then they are elegible for funding which is 50% up to $1000 to work with their vet and this includes a consultation visit where the vet would go through the risks and what kind of things they can add or improve to mitigate those risks."
Schellenberg also says the goal of the Biosecurity component focuses on dealing with disease risks and how to manage them.
Source : Discoverestevan