Alberta Livestock

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Alberta Livestock Meat Strategy
www.agric.gov.ab.ca

• Communities without Borders presentation by
• Dr. Sandra Honour Alberta Livestock and Meat
  Agency
• Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development

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Areas in the strategy supported by better access
to technology

• INFORMATION AVAILABILITY BIG!!
• traceability supporting food safety animal
  health
• Value added information through LISA
• Communication and engagement
• what is available , reporting to industry
• Live feed participation in one meeting instead of
  100s
• Industry LEADERSHIP capacity and capability-
• no details on this yet working with industry
  but what are the possibilities??

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Livestock Information System of Alberta
Supply Chain Participants from producer to
retailer
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Animal Health

• Disease outbreaks
• Live feed of quarantine zones
• Information as it happens
• Real time information

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Moo is sick
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Food safety - recall

• Real time traceability
• Back to risk introduction location packing
  plant, feed company,
• find other food or livestock exposed to the hazard

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Technology
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Communication and engagement

• All programs in Agriculture require input from
  industry technology is not utilized to its
  fullest to achieve this
• Nothing replaces a face to face meeting but
  videoconferencing is better than documents with
  no discussion

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Leadership, capacity, capability development

• Distance learning big
• Video workshops
• Knowing the WHY is so important to adult
  learning..

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Current Limitations

• Communication of the strategy
• Battling misinformation
• Participation in the highway
• Technologically challenged
• Lack of access to high speed the LAST MILE
• Geographical discrimination
• Access to video conferencing systems that speak
  between jurisdictions..