Glacier FarmMedia – A senior American agricultural policy leader is cautioning Canadian farmers to expect a resurgence of the dairy dispute. “Watch out on dairy. I think that’s real,” Ted McKinney, a former undersecretary at U.S. Department of Agriculture, former Indiana minister of agriculture and current chief executive officer of the National Association of State
U.S. feels ‘betrayed’ over dairy deal
Former official says dairy dispute between U.S. and Canada about to erupt again
Future growth in agriculture will require investment
Canadian ag at forefront of growth: FCC president
Glacier FarmMedia – Farm Credit Canada’s president is bullish about the future of Canadian farming. “Consumers around the world are counting on us to increase sustainable food production and, to do so, we will need to take on new risks, new beginnings and form new partnerships,” said Justine Hendricks at Canada’s Agriculture Day in Ottawa
Load out risky time for hog farm
Load out can open door for infection in a barn
Glacier FarmMedia – What if the truck driver asks to enter the hog barn to use the bathroom? Does the operation have a protocol for that? That’s a question asked of Dr. Julia Keenliside at the Manitoba Swine Seminar. “Everybody’s got to work out what your procedures are, because that happens,” said Keenliside, an Edmonton-based
Young cattle producers needed
Youth programs help attract young people to the cattle breeding sector
Glacier FarmMedia – It wasn’t hard to find young cattle folk in the barns at Manitoba Ag Days. “They always say (average age) is getting older, but not in livestock, especially not in this kind of seedstock industry,” said Austen Anderson, as he braced himself against one of his Angus bulls. “It’s a young (person’s)
U.S. greatest geopolitical risk: Frum
Author and political analyst says U.S. absence harms global prospects
Canadian farmers have front-row seats to the world’s biggest geopolitical risk, according to David Frum. “I think the thing that worries me the most is the threat that lies within the United States,” Frum, a journalist, former White House speechwriter, and conservative intellectual, told farmers at Manitoba Ag Days earlier this month. “If Americans make
Flexibility touted for wild pig fight
Manitoba’s industry-led efforts say minimal government involvement is an advantage
Glacier FarmMedia – Manitoba’s wild pig busters have moved fast to find, trap and destroy the invasive species since their Squeal on Pigs initiative was set up a few years ago. The aim is to eliminate Manitoba’s wild pig problem. They have a lot of work ahead. “It’ll probably take most of a decade,” said
Looming pandemic loan deadline must not be ignored
Farmers face a significant financial hit if they don’t pay back their Canada Emergency Business Account loan by Jan. 18
Glacier FarmMedia – It’s not the sort of thing you can afford to forget. If farmers received money from the Canada Emergency Business Account during the pandemic, missing the Jan. 18 repayment deadline could bring a sharp boot to the finances. “It would be $20,000 evaporating,” said Marvin Slingerland, MNP’s national director for livestock services.
Carcass competition spices up Hog and Livestock Show
Slumping prices have created trying times in the industry, but producer interest was high at trade show
Glacier FarmMedia – Anyone who wanted to meet a young, competitive and chatty hog producer last week just had to hang around outside the glass-fronted hog cooler at the recent Brandon Hog and Livestock Show. Throughout the event, groups of young men, mostly Hutterites, approached the glass and appraised the top five carcasses on display.
African swine fever plans continue to fall into place
Hog sector sees new compartmentalization rules as another way to plan ahead
Glacier FarmMedia – Another piece has fallen into place in Canada’s two-track approach to African swine fever preparation. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s release of standards and the framework for “compartments” within hog production regions allows farmers and industry to get ahead of any future ASF outbreak. “It’s one of the tools we have to prepare for ASF,”
CAPI pitches national agri-food water strategy
Think tank says farmers have been let down by lack of a national plan
Glacier FarmMedia – Canada should use its enormous water resources to become a sustainable food powerhouse and a global water research superpower, says a new paper from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. The country’s water policies, management and research efforts are under-developed and uncoordinated, it said, which leaves water resources and challenges largely unaddressed. That’s something a national plan should fix, says the report written
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