Photo: Ed White

Ag in Motion Innovation Awards handed out

The competition was made up of five categories, each including three contestants. Their innovations ranged from a giant manure bio-gas tank-trailer to a simple plastic calf castration card, from analytical management systems to hand-held leaf-scanning apps.





The official launch of the funding campaign to establish the Global Agriculture Technology Exchange (GATE) has been postponed, with Cereals’ Canada’s June 27 board meeting expected to clarify which members are staying and which might leave. Photo: Screencap via gate-canada.ca

Membership crisis rocks Cereals Canada

Official launch of campaign to establish the Global Agriculture Technology Exchange has been postponed

One medium-sized grain company has definitively decided to leave the organization, a large one has triggered a two-year option to depart if it chooses and other grain companies may have also triggered two-year potential-departure options, sources say.




Pigs.

Issues loom over hog farmers as they gather in Des Moines

Prop 12, bird flu, farm bill top of mind at this year's World Pork Expo

North America's hog industry is grappling with multiple issues these days, but is presently feeling better than some of the other livestock industries. That doesn't mean that everything's great, but not yet having to deal with avian flu infections is keeping hog farmers in a cautiously optimistic mood about their challenges.

Beef cattle graze on a pasture near Ethelbert, Man.

Sustainability demands put pressure on livestock feed industry

Conference attendees challenged to take micronutrient impact, efficiency and waste more seriously

Glacier FarmMedia – In today’s sustainability-focused world, farmers and the animal nutrition industry must think as much about what comes out of an animal as what goes in. That was one message at the annual Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada held in Winnipeg in May. Why it matters: Producers of all types of livestock face


The last regulations were introduced more than four decades ago.

Updated national feed rules expected soon

Government efforts to modernize the national regulations have been underway for 13 years

It’s been a long time since the last update of national feed regulations, but the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada hopes that will soon change. “I’m really optimistic,” executive director Melissa Dumont said at the organization’s May conference in Winnipeg. “We really are expecting these regulations to be published in 2024 unless someone in the