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Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

Ottawa has seen enough drought in parts of southwestern Alberta, southern and eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec to offer deferrals on their ranchers’ 2016 income tax from breeding livestock sales. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Tuesday released the federal government’s initial list of municipalities designated for the 2016 deferral. In Alberta, those areas include Clearwater,

Beef cattle, Livestock

Ranchers under quarantine fear going ‘broke by spring’

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel November 22, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Ranchers in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan whose herds are under quarantine due to the spread of bovine tuberculosis told federal legislators Tuesday they desperately need to sell cattle or receive compensation to avoid financial disaster. Ranchers who raise calves typically sell them in autumn to feedlots, where they are fattened

Manitoba in the past decade has imposed restrictions on intensive hog production in a bid to reduce the nutrient load on the Red River heading north toward Lake Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Livestock

Investors press meat producers to cut water pollution

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein November 21, 2016

Reuters — Forty-five large investors collectively managing C$1.6 trillion in assets are pressing some of the nation’s largest meat producers to set policies for reducing water pollution in their feeding, slaughtering and processing operations. The investors, who are members of sustainability non-profit advocate Ceres and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), sent letters to

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

U.S. October feedlot cattle placements hit four-year low

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters November 21, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. feedlots in October received five per cent fewer cattle than a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday, a four-year low for that month that was in line with average trade predictions. Ranchers grew cattle outside of feedlots longer thanks to still healthy grazing pastures in parts of

Crops

OMAFRA seen needing a soil health ‘tuneup’

By GFM Network News, John Greig November 18, 2016

Ontario’s environmental commissioner is calling on the provincial ag ministry to rebuild its soil health expertise and find ways to encourage farmers to adopt soil-friendly production practices, to deal with what she calls a “catastrophic” loss in soil organic matter levels. The report recommends better soil carbon level monitoring and 10-year programs to financially encourage

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

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB strain of Mexican origin in Alberta probe

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 16, 2016

While new to Canada, the strain of tuberculosis bacteria which infected the Alberta cow at the centre of a bovine TB probe has been seen before in Mexico. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported the strain of Mycobacterium bovis found in a southeastern Alberta cow is “closely related” to a strain originating from

Crops

Ritchie Bros. buys Saskatchewan’s Kramer Auctions

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 15, 2016

One of the Prairies’ major farm auction houses has become part of the world’s biggest industrial auction firm. Vancouver-based Ritchie Bros. announced Tuesday it has bought Kramer Auctions of North Battleford, Sask. for an undisclosed sum. The company, set up in 1949 by the late Eiling Kramer, today runs about 75 on-farm dispersal auctions, four

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle finish mostly firmer

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters November 14, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts on Monday finished modestly higher after investors sold December futures and simultaneously bought deferred months in a trading strategy known as bear-spreading, traders said. December live cattle closed down 0.025 cent per pound at 105.575 cents (all figures US$). February ended up 0.225 cent

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB quarantines push into Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 14, 2016

Two farms in southwestern Saskatchewan have been added to the list of those under federal quarantine as inspectors widen their search for cattle exposed to a new-to-Canada strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB). As of Thursday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it had “approximately 33” farms in Alberta and two in Saskatchewan under quarantine. The

Crops, Local news

Manitoba government extends nutrient application deadline

Mild fall weather means the window is a bit longer this year

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 14, 2016

Manitoba’s nutrient application deadline has been extended to Nov. 18. The province’s sustainable development department said Monday the move, which allows fall fertilizer applications through to the end of Nov. 17, is possible because soil temperatures, due to an extremely mild first half of November, have yet to reach the freezing point. The restrictions are designed to ensure nutrients aren’t

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Pasture

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

Ranchers under quarantine fear going ‘broke by spring’

Investors press meat producers to cut water pollution

U.S. October feedlot cattle placements hit four-year low

OMAFRA seen needing a soil health ‘tuneup’

Bovine TB strain of Mexican origin in Alberta probe

Ritchie Bros. buys Saskatchewan’s Kramer Auctions

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle finish mostly firmer

Bovine TB quarantines push into Saskatchewan

Manitoba government extends nutrient application deadline

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