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Fall Field Work Wrapped Up, Cattle Traffic Rises

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Activity at Manitoba’s cattle auction yards picked up during the week ended Oct. 15, as good weather conditions across the province finally allowed many producers to finish their fall field work. Robin Hill, manager of Heartland Livestock Services at Virden, said prices were fully steady on the week for the most part, with a few
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Preventive Antibiotic Approved For Hogs

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Draxxin (tulathromycin) is now registered for control of swine respiratory disease (SRD) in groups of pigs where SRD has been diagnosed. Draxxin is the first and only injectable antibiotic with a control claim for use in pigs assessed to be at risk of developing SRD because of their proximity to sick animals. With the additional
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Higher Prices Hearten Ranchers Young And Old

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After years of living through the “downs” of the cattle business, Dewi and Liz Davis are hoping recent signs of an upward trend are for real. “We’re feeling a bit more optimistic this year than we were last year,” said Davis, who immigrated from the U. K. with his family and bought their first Canadian
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New Document Required For Slaughter Horses

As of July 31,2010 the Canadi an Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) initiated new rules and regulations before a horse can be sent for slaughter. These new measures were in response to the European Commission’s directive for identification and traceability of horses intended for human consumption. All horses presented for slaughter at a federally inspected processing
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Bernie PeetPeet On Pigs – for Oct. 21, 2010

Feeding sows ad lib during lactation results in higher feed intake, boosting piglet weaning weights and improving reproductive performance in the subsequent parity, says Dr. Malachy Young, a nutritionist with Gowans Feed Consulting. “Advances in litter size and changes in the sow’s genetics have created new challenges in feeding lactating sows, which generally have lower
Hogs, Livestock

Feeding Sows Ad Lib Boosts Piglet Weaning Weights

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Young’s own research (Table 1) showed that more than four per cent of all sows ate less than four kg and 17.5 per cent ate less
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Tax deferrals granted for northern Alta., B.C. ranchers

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The program that allows ranchers to defer taxable income on drought-induced sales of breeding livestock has rolled out an initial list of eligible areas for the 2010 tax year, starting in Alberta and British Columbia. The federal government’s tax deferral program allows eligible producers in designated areas to defer income on the sale of breeding
Livestock

Beef seen moving to China as early as December

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(Reuters) –– Canada’s first commercial shipments of beef and tallow to China in seven years may happen in December or early 2011, with technical work remaining to follow through on the Asian country’s political commitment to ease restrictions, an industry official said Tuesday. China agreed ahead of G20 meetings in June to accept Canadian boneless
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Ont. stewardship program to require premises ID

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Ontario livestock and poultry producers wanting to take part in a federal/provincial funding program to improve their land management will now need premises ID (PID) numbers to be eligible. New for the 2011 cropping year, the Canada-Ontario Farm Stewardship Program (COFSP) will require all applicant farm businesses with either livestock or poultry as a “primary
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Klassen: Feeder cattle prices strengthen

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Calf prices in Western Canada were $2 to $4 higher over the past week, with 600-pound steers bringing back $129 per hundredweight (cwt). We also saw heaver yearlings weighing 950 pounds selling for $107/cwt, about $2/cwt above week-ago levels. We are seeing a significant premium in Western Canada over central U.S. prices as basis levels

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