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Bison prices rise with market access

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 29, 2018

CNS Canada — Prices for Canadian bison are slowly gaining ground as the industry continues to try and expand its global footprint. While the U.S. remains Canada’s largest export market, efforts have been made to increase access to Mexico, Europe and some parts of Asia. Last year, roughly 11,500 animals were slaughtered domestically while 17,600

The Manitoba government has singled out the province’s beekeepers, dairy farmers, sheep producers and the horticulture sector for the $176-million Manitoba interpretation of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

Local news, News

Four sectors focus of Ag Action Manitoba

Some application deadlines are less than a month away

By Alexis Stockford May 28, 2018

The province has released the first round of Ag Action Manitoba funding guidelines for the $176-million Manitoba interpretation of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership. Their next challenge will be hitting the application deadlines, some of which are June 22. Four sectors have been earmarked for specific projects in the first year of assurance funding. The province

Our History

That’s one rich ditch

Our History: May 1994

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 16, 2018

Both the U.S. Midwest and the Canadian Prairies suffered from too much moisture in 1993, but things had switched by the spring of 1994. This photo in our May 26 issue showed a ditch full of topsoil north of Carman, the result of gale-force winds on May 17. A recently bulldozed shelterbelt could be seen

Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe officially closed

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 3, 2018

An investigation across three provinces following the appearance of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in six Prairie cattle in 2016 has officially closed with no further cases found. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported receiving the last of the lab culture test results on about 30,000 animals tested during its probe. “All of the results

Hogs, Livestock

Pork supply issues hit Maple Leaf’s Q1 ledger

By GFM Network News May 2, 2018

Reuters — Meat packer Maple Leaf Foods posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly profit as lower prices and a temporary interruption in supplies hurt sales of its pork products, sending its shares to their lowest in nearly two years. The company, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, said that processed fresh pork sales were affected by a

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Spring’s arrival brings price improvement

Many buyers were clearly interested in herd building at this sale

By Mark Elliot May 1, 2018

As the spring weather slowly unfreezes the landscape, so too have prices found new life. The warmer weather has no doubt enabled buyers to review low volumes from the winter season and made them more aware of their stock supply. Producers delivered 100 sheep and goats to the latest sale at Winnipeg Livestock Auction April

Livestock

Vet college’s full accreditation survives funding cut

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 28, 2018

The looming exit of one of its major funding partners notwithstanding, the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) has earned full accreditation through 2024. The American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) Council on Education, the accrediting body for veterinary colleges in North America, recently confirmed Saskatoon-based WCVM’s status as “Accredited (w/minor deficiency).” “Minor

Livestock, Local news

KAP delegates raise flag over biosecurity breaches

Farmers cite incidents of provincial inspectors, hydro meter readers bypassing inspection stations

By Lorraine Stevenson April 27, 2018

Anyone entering a restricted area of a livestock farm can increase the risk of spreading diseases farm to farm. It’s why farms have biosecurity measures in place and producers are vigilant to limit those coming and going on it. But as district representatives at Keystone Agriculture Producers’ spring meeting point out, some provincial government personnel

Black soldier flies are held in a pen at the Enterra Feed Corporation in Langley, British Columbia.

News

Bugging out

Insect farms gear up to feed soaring global protein demand

By Karl Plume April 25, 2018

Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10 high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, rotting mangoes, overripe cantaloupe and squishy zucchini. But this is no garbage dump. It’s a farm. Enterra Feed, one of an emerging crop of insect growers, will process the

The heavier winter coat protects horses from the harsh weather, but when spring arrives it begins to loosen and fall out.

Livestock

The shedding horse

Horse Health: This annual event arrives with spring and can be a barometer for certain health conditions

By Carol Shwetz April 25, 2018

Shedding of a horse’s winter coat is a complex physiological process that can reveal information about the horse’s general health. Many — well actually all — horses look cosmetically “messy” during the shedding period with a thorough shed usually occurring over a six- to eight-week period. This transition period often accompanies the fickle weather of

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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