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Pre-weaned calves can be easily stressed in cold weather, which can affect their future health and productivity.

Taking the bite out of cold-weather livestock care

Strategies for keeping calves warm and healthy

By Ralph Pearce January 3, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – The youngest calves on the farm are the most sensitive to temperature changes and, in the case of a turn toward colder weather, producers can have problems managing morbidity, mortality and suboptimal growth rates, said Sarah Morrison. She is a research scientist with the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy,

Letters

Letters: Why the cover up?

By John Fefchak December 4, 2023

In response to the Nov. 2 article,“The Catch-22 on animal activism.”: Cam Dahl, general manager of Manitoba Pork, voices concern about the threat of disease outbreaks to the Manitoba hog industry. He tells readers that legislation like the now-law Bill 62 is a necessary step for those who trespass onto farm operations. However, he does not

“Laws that are really narrow and tightly focused ... can often create more deliberate and rational responses, instead of these kinds of laws that respond to hyperbole.” – Rob Danisch, University of Waterloo.

News

The Catch-22 on animal activism

‘Ag-gag’ laws might comfort producers, but they could cause more polarization and amplify the issue

By Geralyn Wichers November 2, 2023

The photo, texted by a tipster to a Co-operator reporter this fall, showed a dead pig of about market size. The image was taken outside a barn in southeastern Manitoba after the tipster gained permission to access the property by claiming to look for a lost dog, they said. The tipster claimed there were 15-20

Conservative agriculture critic John Barlow speaks Nov. 24, 2021 in the House of Commons. (Screengrab from supplied video)

Livestock

Anti-activist bill back before Commons committee

Bill adds protections for biosecurity, farmers' mental health, Barlow says

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News October 6, 2023

A bill to create harsher penalties for unlawful entry onto farms and biosecure zones is back before the House of Commons after a previous iteration died on the order table in 2021. Conservative MP John Barlow brought forward Bill C-275, “an Act to amend the Health of Animals Act (biosecurity on farms),” as a private

Livestock, Markets

‘Shocking’ farm videos barred at egg-price antitrust trial in Chicago

Food firms sought to show animal care claims not genuine

By GFM Network News September 20, 2023

Reuters — A U.S. judge has barred Kraft, Kellogg and other major food producers from showing what the court called “shocking” and “heart-wrenching” videos of conditions inside certain hen houses at an upcoming antitrust trial against egg producers and marketers. In a ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger in Chicago said the risk

One of eight billboards placed on busy Winnipeg streets as part of a Winnipeg Humane Society campaign criticizing the treatment of pigs.

News

WHS campaign targets Manitoba hog industry

Group says the billboard campaign is meant to spur discussion ahead of the election; industry says its off the mark

By Don Norman September 1, 2023

A new Winnipeg Humane Society billboard campaign takes aim at Manitoba’s pork industry. Eight billboards have gone up around Manitoba’s most populous city, all carrying various warning messages about pig welfare on farms and during transportation in the province. “Our goal is to educate consumers on the various animal welfare red flags that are associated

Letters

Letters: Care, knowledge, passion at the heart of Canada’s egg industry

By Roger Pelissero August 16, 2023

In response to the July 20 Co-operator article, “Survey says Canadians want cage-free eggs but purchase choices don’t agree”: The article is largely based on a survey commissioned by an animal activist group in partnership with a U.K.-based polling firm seeking to eliminate the consumption of animal protein. Their agenda is not to contribute to

The pork sector is concerned about the legal precedent of the state-level Prop 12.

Hogs, News

U.S. pork firms divided over bill to overturn Prop 12

The California animal welfare law is set to come into effect in the New Year

By Leah Douglas August 15, 2023

Reuters – Some big U.S. pork producers that have spent money to comply with a California law requiring more living space for certain farm animals are lukewarm about legislation proposed in the U.S. Congress that would overturn the state law. Why it matters: Canadian pork groups say Prop 12 will introduce non-tariff trade barriers and

Laying hens in cage-free aviary housing at the Manitoba Egg Farmers Learning and Resource Centre at Glenlea.

News, Poultry

Survey says Canadians want cage-free eggs but purchase choices don’t agree

The Canadian egg-farming sector is about halfway into a transition to enriched cage housing

By Geralyn Wichers July 25, 2023

Do Canadians want cage-free eggs? Survey says yes. But the data says they’re not voting with their wallets. In a survey of more than 1,000 Canadians, 72 per cent of respondents said Canada’s code of practice should ban caged confinement of laying hens. The survey, released this summer, comes from Bryant Research, a U.K. firm

Livestock

Activists target Ontario hog farm with ransomware

'We are dealing with adversaries whose motivation is not money'

By GFM Network News, Matt McIntosh July 20, 2023

A ransomware on a small Ontario hog business is something a cybersecurity expert says needs more attention from the agriculture industry. Instead of cash, the attackers demanded the hog business owners publicly admit to what they alleged to be livestock mistreatment. The occurrence was unique and alarming, says Ali Dehghantanha, Canada research chair in cybersecurity

Daily Network News

‘Significant’ Canadian GDP slide expected in 2026, FCC says

Gene edited, PRRS resistant pig approved in Canada

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher

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