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Ontario seeking new rules on scope of vet services

Changes also considered to veterinary sector oversight

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News November 22, 2022

Updated Nov. 23 — Ontario’s government is considering new legislation to more clearly spell out who can provide what kinds of animal care in the province’s veterinary sector. The provincial ag ministry on Monday launched a round of public consultation on the Veterinarians Act, which governs licensing of veterinarians and accreditation of veterinary facilities in

Horse training programs need to start with an awareness of how horses learn.

Livestock

A lonely horse is often more prone to injury

Horse Health: Horses are social creatures and social isolation has been found to be among their strongest stressors

By Carol Shwetz November 16, 2022

Horses have major advantages associated with domestic life but they have also incurred disadvantages that deeply affect their overall health and well-being. Perhaps the greatest of these disadvantages is the disruption of their social structure due to frequent social isolation. Social support in humans has been found to protect individuals from the mental, physical and

File photo of a snow-topped field in Alberta. (Don White/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

Cold, snowy start seen to Prairies’ winter

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 8, 2022

MarketsFarm — Although the official calendar start to winter isn’t until Dec. 21, conditions on the Canadian Prairies are now winter-like, according to Weatherlogics chief scientist Scott Kehler. “For the month of November, it looks like we’re off to a cold start for most of the Prairies. The western Prairies… had quite a significant winter

Dr. Gillian Muir, dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, welcomes new funding announced by Manitoba’s provincial government.

News

Rural kids prioritized for new veterinary seats

Manitoba will be getting five new slots per year at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, and farm experience is the golden ticket

By Alexis Stockford October 20, 2022

The province has released more details on its plan to increase Manitoba vet student seats at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM). In particular, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson says his department will work with the college to target future poultry and large animal veterinarians. “The health of these animals is the most visible

Researchers struggle to quantify the healing properties of honey.

Livestock

The use of honey in wound care of horses

Horse Health: The right kind of honey is key if you want to try this technique

By Carol Shwetz October 18, 2022

Medicinal honey shows impressive results in combatting antibiotic resistance, improving patient welfare and economizing wound management for humans and companion animals. When the source of honey is well chosen, there are no mentionable side effects or contra-indications. Bees make honey from the nectar collected from flowers. Honey is roughly 80 per cent simple sugars like glucose and fructose and 20

Conservative agriculture critic John Barlow speaks Nov. 24, 2021 in the House of Commons. (Screengrab from supplied video)

Barlow remains ag critic in Conservatives’ new shadow cabinet

Poilievre also names two associate critics for ag file

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 13, 2022

The federal Conservatives’ point person on agriculture will remain at that post under the party’s new leader. John Barlow, MP for the southwestern Alberta riding of Foothills, was named Wednesday as the Conservatives’ “shadow minister” for agriculture, agri-food and food security. Pierre Poilievre, who was named Sept. 10 as the official opposition party’s new leader,

Farmer Derrick Gould (left) with his son Blaze (centre) and father Donald (right). Donald passed away this June.

News

BACK TO THE LAND: ‘We used to plant hay here.’

The past, present, and hopeful future of Indigenous agriculture in Manitoba

By Geralyn Wichers September 29, 2022

For decades, farming has declined in Derrick Gould’s community of Pinaymootang (Fairford) First Nation. In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, Gould estimates 35 to 40 families were raising cattle in pastures and hay lands along the Fairford River. Gould family history relates the beginning of the end for many of those farms: In 1961,

Wrecked structures float in the water in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona at Rose Blanche, N.L., about 45 km east of Port aux Basques, on Sept. 25, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/John Morris)

Weather

Cleanup work begins for Eastern Canada after Fiona

Five provinces assessing damage from 'unprecedented' storm

By GFM Network News September 26, 2022

Port aux Basques | Reuters — It will take several months for Canada to restore critical infrastructure after the powerful storm Fiona left an “unprecedented” trail of destruction, officials said on Sunday, as crews fanned out in five provinces to restore power and clean up fallen trees and debris. One 73-year-old woman died during the

A composite satellite view of Hurricane Fiona nearing Nova Scotia at about 6 p.m. local time on Sept. 23, 2022. (U.S. National Hurricane Center image, NOAA.gov)

Weather

Fiona pounds Bermuda as Canada braces for major jolt

Up to eight inches of rain expected along path

By GFM Network News September 23, 2022

Hamilton, Bermuda/Halifax, N.S. | Reuters — Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward Eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history. Fiona had already battered a series of Caribbean islands earlier in the week,

File photo of wild horses running on grasslands in Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island National Park Reserve. (Photo by Sarah Medill/Parks Canada/Handout via Reuters)

Other, Weather

Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears East Coast

Damages feared to buildings, utilities, crops

By GFM Network News, Ismail Shakil September 23, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — Shaggy, long-maned wild horses grazing freely on the sandy grasslands of the crescent-shaped Sable Island in the North Atlantic are expected to come under the swipe of a powerful storm forecast to hit Eastern Canada this weekend. Hurricane Fiona, tracking northward after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and

Daily Network News

Canadian alpacas impress American judge at Agribition

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm as traders gauge China purchases

U.S. livestock: Futures rally ahead of U.S. Thanksgiving

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