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Heartland Livestock Services closes Brandon auction mart
Heartland Livestock Services announced the closure July 25. The Brandon auction mart has been a historic standby for Manitoba beef producers selling their cattle.

Canadian farms at risk from animal activism
A legal expert warns that growing animal rights activism is creating complex challenges for Canadian farmers, despite livestock industry groups spending considerable effort on their public trust files.

New Manitoba beef research chair to have financial focus
The University of Manitoba will host the BCRC Chair in Beef Cattle Economic Sustainability. The research chair role will focus on economical sustainability on beef farms.

Wildfire smoke threatens to turn down honey tap for Manitoba beekeepers
Honeybees hunker down when there’s too much smoke in the air, slicing at a beekeeper’s honey flow —With so many fires raging in Manitoba, there’s been a lot of smoke to contend with.

First Manitoba hay harvest short
Manitoba’s first hay cut of 2025 isn’t huge by initial counts, but things are worse farther west in the Prairies

A Canadian idea to save the bees
Canada’s beekeepers are losing hives to issues like foulbrood and varroa mites. A B.C. company hopes their product, ApiSave, will help turn the tide for Canadian honeybees.

Manitoba auctions offer respite to fire-evacuated livestock
Heartland Livestock Services in Virden and Grunthal Auction Mart in Grunthal have offered farmers in fire-threatened areas a safe place to evacuate their livestock.

U.S. cattle ranchers slowly start to rebuild decimated herd
In major U.S. livestock regions, some ranchers have slowly begun taking the first steps to boost cattle production after the nation’s inventory shrank due to a years-long drought that dried up pasture land used for grazing and hiked feeding costs.

Manitoba Crop Report: More scattered rains across the province
More scattered showers across Manitoba helped crops advance in their development during the week ended July 13, 2025.