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By Alice McFarlane

Saskatchewan Animal Protection Act updated

New Animal Production Act for Saskatchewan

Jul 10, 2024 | 2:23 PM

The Saskatchewan livestock sector has a new Animal Production Act.

Agriculture Minister David Marit said the changes are a step toward modernizing and streamlining regulatory processes for producers.

It governs animal production including domestic game farming, fur farming, domestic meat inspection, milk compositional standards, animal identifiers, premises identification, animal keeper’s liens, and livestock dealer licensing.

Livestock Services of Saskatchewan (LSS) CEO Jason Pollock said the updated regulations focused on clarity.

“It will allow LSS to communicate more clearly with its stakeholders as well as guide our support and enforcement services to the industry in a more straightforward manner,” Pollock said.

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Other changes include clearer requirements for livestock inspection and transportation standards. When transporting animals, they must be accompanied with documentation that specifies the premises identification numbers for the animal’s point of origin and destination.

Another area of interest for the livestock sector includes the newly added wild boar farm requirements where all farms must be licensed and inspected along with a moratorium on new wild boar farms.

Sask Pork Chair Toby Tschetter said he was pleased to see the province’s commitment to regulate wild boar farms.

“The new oversight of these operations will position the province and the pork industry to better respond to wild boar escapes and potential animal disease outbreaks,” he said.

Also updated are the stray animal requirements to provide rural municipalities with more flexibility to address strays in their area.

This modernized legislation consolidated four existing Acts related to animal production into one Act and reduces 10 sets of regulations into a single set which reduces red tape and simplifies the legislation.

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