UK imports Live Animals from Canada
Ten Lowline heifers boarded a plane for England April 28, the first live cattle to be exported to the United Kingdom from Canada in almost 10 years.
It took six months of paperwork, blood tests and export regulations after buyers from England indicated they wanted to buy the small beef cattle.
Canadian cattle have been shut out of British markets since Oct 1, 2001.
Before the export process could begin, the herd had to be certified leukosis free, which took four months. Then the family could start the export testing procedures.
Before the heifers boarded the plane from Calgary, they had to pass a final blood test. The results came back April 23 and the animals were allowed to be loaded.
There is already excitement around the cattle that have arrived at the Salisbury farm, about 100 kilometres outside London.
The 11-month-old heifers will be bred with semen imported from Australia.
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