Red-hot demand and soaring prices for bison meat have producers smiling, but are causing headaches for marketers. “It’s going to take time, and people have to understand that,” said Terry Kremeniuk, executive director of the Canadian Bison Association. “The North American herd is very small and the demand is very high.” The association is trying
Bison Industry Reaches Out To Newcomers – for Sep. 23, 2010
AC Saltlander Shows Promise For Saline Pastures – for Sep. 23, 2010
Just because the land doesn’t look salty, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t. In fact, virtually all the land south of Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba is affected to some degree by salinity, and the total across the prairies amounts to some 10 million hectares. One dead giveaway for salt is the presence of foxtail
Want A Gun Registry That Works? Put It In Writing – for Sep. 16, 2010
Next week, left-leaning politicians, as usual, will forget whatever principles they once pretended to possess, and instead vote to save their own skins. That, more or less, shows how democracy in this country works, and how low the discussion surrounding the long-gun registry has sunk. We all know that NDP leader Jack Layton has pledged
Dragonfly Survey Finds Over 100 Species In Province – for Sep. 16, 2010
This summer, after torrential spring rains left oceans of standing water in ditches and fields, the evening air in many places seemed to vibrate with mosquitoes, especially when the humidity was high. At times like that, especially when you’ve got tools in both hands and no means of defence, there’s nothing more satisfying than to
“Feed And Weed” Strategy Seems To Be Working – for Sep. 16, 2010
Within sight of the grey dome of the old Brandon Mental Health Centre lies a field with leafy spurge so thick that, in the summer months, it looked like a field of flowering canola. But further up the hill, the noxious weed infestation tapers off, giving way to lush grass. Why? Credit a new “feed
U. S. Herd Smallest In 50 Years — And Shrinking Fast – for Sep. 16, 2010
The cattle herd in the United States is entering its 15th year of decline, and now, at just under 31 million head, stands at the lowest level since 1959. “It’s pretty shocking when you look at that,” said James Bo Reagan, senior vice-president of research, education, and innovation for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association based
Copper Thefts Near Carberry – for Sep. 9, 2010
Copper thieves are at it again. “I had a visit from them,” said Rick Fiskel, who farms near Neepawa and has heard of up to a dozen thefts on farms in the area. Sometime during the August long weekend, wire was stripped off a quarter-mile irrigation pivot. Thieves had stripped off the long wires that
Rancher Tries Out New Grazing Strategy – for Sep. 9, 2010
When some ranchers get on in years, they get to be like a ball of rusty old barbed wire. Before even thinking about straightening them out – or talking about newfangled ideas in the cattle business – proceed with caution. But for Ron Batho, 74, who has been ranching near Oak Lake since 1952, trying
Variable-Rate Hog Manure Still Needs Work – for Sep. 2, 2010
Precision agr icul ture isn’t ready for natural fertilizer. That’s the finding of a recently completed study by Nivervillebased Agra-Gold Consulting researcher Scott Dick, who along with Farmer’s Edge Precision Consulting, tested whether the cutting-edge technology could work with a drag-hose application system to apply hog manure. In the MRAC and Manitoba Pork Council-funded study
Squashing The E. Coli Bug – for Sep. 2, 2010
Ranchers worry about their cattle getting sick. For packers, the risk of making their customers ill is a major concern. “Nothing weighs on my mind more than the battle with E. coli,” said Entz, vice-president/general manager of Cargill’s beef business unit in High River, Alberta. An agriculture engineer by training, he has worked for Cargill
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