Manitoba spent a lot of effort in past decades to keep bovine tuberculosis out of the province’s cattle. In June 2025, the disease made a return in a Manitoba dairy. (Dairy cattle photographed above are unrelated to the recent bovine tuberculosis finding) Photo: File

Bovine tuberculosis found in Manitoba

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis, the province’s first bovine TB case in years

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis after samples from a cow tested positive for the bacterial disease. It's the province's first bovine TB case in years.



A man walks in an empty Ein al-Fejeh spring basin, in Damascus countryside, Syria, May 12, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Yamam Alshaar

Barren fields, dry wells: after war, drought ravages Syrian farms

Digging wells adds costs as harvests fail; many farmers have heavy debts, want assistance

Syrian farmers hoped for some reprieve after Islamist rebels ended Assad' 24 years of autocratic rule in December, but a devastating drought and continued water theft mean their crops are still dying, their pears and plums withering on the branch.










U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

G7 farm groups on governments to support rules-based trade, innovation

Increasingly volatile geopolitical, economic, environmental landscape pressuring farmers say groups

Farm organizations from the G7 countries called for governments to support stable rules-based trade, modernized regulations and other measures to help farmers weather “unprecedented pressures,” the Canadian Federation of Agriculture said in a joint news release, Monday.


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