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Laminitis has been found to be closely related to cresty necks in horses, and can even be predicted by the condition of the neck fat.

The ‘cresty’-necked horse

Horse Health: Neck fat is a valuable barometer of horse health

By Carol Shwetz September 2, 2020

The observance of a cresty neck in a horse indicates some level of metabolic sickness and reflects more than just a fat horse. Although the fat or obese horse is burdened with a form of metabolic illness, the appearance of a cresty neck signals further metabolic complications along the continuum of diseases associated with obesity.

News

Regenerative Ag Conference moves online

The event will be free to attend across four Thursdays in November

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 2, 2020

This year’s Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association Regenerative Ag Conference will be both online and free, the organization announced Aug. 18. “An in-person gathering of the magnitude and impact we had hoped to make for our conference delegates is simply not feasible in these strange times,” the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA) said in

A producer in west-central Manitoba moves bales earlier this year.

News

Improvements relative when it comes to hay yield

By Alexis Stockford August 28, 2020

FORAGE Hay yields are up compared to last year, but many areas are still a long way from ‘good’

Manitoba is seeing its best hay year in two years, but given how dismal yields were in 2018 and 2019, that’s a low bar. Poor growing conditions both last year and the year before had pastures fall short of production, hay yields in areas dropping to half or less of normal and dugouts drying. Producers

Crops

Seed groups weigh options as CSGA rejects merger

Grower group's membership calls nay on Seeds Canada amalgamation

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 28, 2020

The boards of five national seed sector groups planning a major merger are considering their next move after a less-than-unanimous vote on the proposal. Members of the Canadian Plant Technology Agency (CPTA), Commercial Seed Analysts Association of Canada (CSAAC), Canadian Seed Growers’ Association (CSGA), Canadian Seed Institute (CSI) and Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) had

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Yearling prices on fire

Canada's cattle herd remains in contraction stage

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen August 25, 2020

Compared to last week, yearlings coming off grass traded $3-$5 higher; backgrounded yearlings were $1-$3 higher on average while calf markets were relatively unchanged. February and April live cattle futures closed marginally lower for the week; however, fed cattle basis levels from U.S. packers are very strong for winter and spring. This appears to be

Sweet clover is easy to recognize by its yellow or white flowers.

Livestock

Sweet clover hay can be toxic

Testing can tell you if mould-related toxins are in your bales

By North Dakota State University August 18, 2020

Sweet clover can provide good nutrition to cattle because it is high in protein and energy when not mature. However, sweet clover can become toxic to cattle if fed as hay, North Dakota State University Extension livestock systems specialist Karl Hoppe cautions. Sweet clover is a biennial legume that lives for two years. It is

Crop Report, Crops, News

Winter cereals harvest half complete, yields seen mostly average

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 18

By Manitoba Agriculture August 18, 2020

[UPDATED: Aug. 19, 2020] Southwest Region Unsettled weather continued in the Southwest. There are reports of a tornado that touched down near the village of Alexander but no reports of any loss. Wind damage to crops as lodging is visible in some fields. Canola, wheat and other crops are suffering with minor lodging especially in

This file photo shows a rack of blood samples being tested for bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand dairy cattle. (Lakeview_Images/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe wraps with no exact point of entry found

'More stringent' tests now being run on U.S. rodeo cattle imports

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 13, 2020

Federal inspectors have formally closed the book on a 2018 outbreak of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in a British Columbia cattle herd, but with “no definitive source of infection” found. The probe dates back to October that year, when a beef cow of an unknown age, from a cow-calf operation in B.C.’s southern Interior, was culled,

Conditions reported to AAFC’s Canadian Drought Monitor as of July 31, 2020. (Agr.gc.ca)

Crops, Weather

Most of Prairies to see little rain

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 12, 2020

MarketsFarm — Warm and dry weather that has generated little precipitation across the Prairies is expected to continue in most areas, aside from southern Manitoba, according to two meteorologists. “Looks like the overall pattern isn’t going to be changing too much,” Scott Kehler of Weatherlogics said. “What you see is what you’re going to get,”

A spray plane flies over a swarm of desert locusts at Lemasulani village in Kenya’s Samburu County on Jan. 17, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Njeri Mwangi)

Crops, Other

Locust swarming pheromone identified in step toward curbing plagues

By GFM Network News, Will Dunham August 12, 2020

Washington | Reuters — Scientists have identified a chemical compound released by locusts that causes them to swarm, opening the door to possible new ways to prevent these insects from devouring crops vital to human sustenance as they have for millennia. Researchers said on Wednesday they identified the pheromone — that is, a chemical produced

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

Pasture