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No Cap For Milk Quota In Manitoba

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Dairy Farmers of Manitoba has formally rejected the idea of capping the value of fluid milk quota. The DFM board has decided to leave the quota exchange system the way it is. It also decided not to put a ceiling on the amount of quota a producer can hold. The board made the decision this
Hogs, Livestock

More Loan Deadlines Loom For Hog Producers

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As Manitoba hog farmers struggle to repay their federal advance payment loans, another loan repayment deadline is looming. Over 130 provincial loans worth more than $40 million will start coming due for hog producers next April. Many producers are having trouble with their long-postponed advance payments and may find it even harder to repay loans
Livestock

Draft Horse Futurity A Success

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A Manitoba-bred draft mare emerged the winner of the Keystone Draft Futurity held Sept. 17 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Elkview Tammy, owned by Kendall Strawn and Deb Taylor and bred by Gordon and Ross Joseph of Virden won the top prize of just over $3,900, a release from the North American Equine Ranchers Information Council says.
Livestock

Animal Health Act Charges Dropped Against TB Alley Rancher

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Charges have been dropped against a 74-year-old Inglis-area rancher accused of refusing to submit his cattle for TB testing. Bill Mansell was told the Crown had withdrawn the charges when he made his third trip to the Dauphin courthouse for a pre-trial hearing. No explanation was given, but Mansell said he suspects the Crown realized
Livestock

Federal fines boosted for livestock transport violations

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will now be able to slap heavier fines on those who mishandle livestock during transport or otherwise mistreat food animals. The federal government on Wednesday announced it will more than double the CFIA’s maximum available administrative monetary penalties (AMPs), up to $10,000 from the previous $4,000, for those who violate
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Things to do in Geneva: COOL hearing goes public

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The next “substantive” round of arguing in Canada’s and Mexico’s challenge of mandatory U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) will be open to the public — that is, if the public doesn’t mind keeping its distance. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body recently announced that “at the request of the parties in the dispute,” its
Livestock

Canada seen shipping beef to China in near future

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(Resource News International) — Canadian commercial beef shipments to China are likely to end a seven-year absence within the next couple of months, an official with the Canadian Beef Export Federation said. The Asian country has not accepted Canadian beef products since 2003, when Canada’s first domestic case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was detected.
Livestock

Que. moves ahead with ASRA transition funding

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About 2,500 Quebec farms, mostly in the livestock sector, are expected to benefit from a new five-year, $100 million fund for them to adapt to changes in the province’s ag income stabilization program (ASRA). The new program, for which the provincial ag department said last week to expect an announcement, is meant to benefit those
Livestock

Klassen: Feeder cattle keep trending higher

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Black steers in central Alberta weighing 550 pounds have sold for just over $130 per hundredweight (cwt) while 515-pound steers reached $142. Presorted red steers averaging 420 pounds touched $155/cwt. Sharply higher fed cattle values were quickly passed onto the feeder market, as local auctions reported prices $2 to $4 higher than a week earlier.
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Feed barley bids firm as harvest winds down

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(Resource News International) — Cash bids for feed barley in Western Canada have managed to hold steady, if not slowly strengthen to some degree, but any upside was seen as being limited. “There was some pretty good selling of feed barley off the combine during the harvest which helped to weaken bids, but as those

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