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The Butler building advantage, rain and slush halts harvest

Our History: October 1954

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 13, 2016

This ad from our Oct. 21, 1954 issue promoted the ease of erection, expansion or relocation of Butler steel buildings. Another ad by the Manitoba Power Commission celebrated a milestone in rural electrification with the installation of the 100,000th power meter at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weerts at Ochre River. “Just nine

Livestock

Cargill stops using human antibiotic against disease in turkeys

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek August 9, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. meat processor Cargill has stopped using an important antibiotic for people to prevent disease in turkeys, the company said Tuesday, the latest food maker to drop the drug amid concerns about the impact on human medicine. Cargill has not used the drug, gentamicin, to prevent disease in turkeys that supply

Livestock

Shareholders press Yum for stricter antibiotics policy

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein August 9, 2016

Los Angeles | Reuters — Yum Brands investors on Tuesday filed a shareholder proposal requesting that it quickly phase out harmful antibiotic use in its meat supply, taking aim at the practices of the company’s KFC fried chicken chain. The proposal from shareholder activists As You Sow, of Oakland, Calif., and the Sisters of St.

Livestock

Wendy’s aims for antibiotic-free chicken by next year

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 4, 2016

U.S. fast food chain Wendy’s aims to source all of its chicken products from birds raised without the use of antibiotics “important to human medicine” by 2017. Columbus, Ohio-based Wendy’s, the world’s No. 3 burger chain behind McDonald’s and Burger King, said in a blog post Wednesday about 50 per cent of its chicken supply

Crops

McDonald’s to remove corn syrup from buns

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek August 1, 2016

Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. will replace corn syrup in hamburger buns with sugar this month and has removed antibiotics that are important to human medicine from its chicken months ahead of schedule, it said Monday, moves that are part of its drive to target increasingly health-conscious consumers. The fast food company also said it eliminated

Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef 911: The pros and cons of hormone-free beef programs

There’s a lot of confusion about these programs — here’s a take from a veterinary perspective

By Roy Lewis July 20, 2016

With all the terms we are hearing in the beef industry — such as organic, natural, hormone free, sustainable — there is no doubt confusion even for you the producers trying to raise cattle to fit into these programs. Most of these branded or niche programs are trying to differentiate themselves from the traditional ways

Beef cattle, Livestock

Regulatory changes would limit farmers’ vet drug imports

Proposed Health Canada changes will affect how antimicrobials are imported into Canada

By Shannon VanRaes July 19, 2016

For John Prescott, a move to end farmers’ right to import certain veterinary drugs marks a significant turning point in the fight against antimicrobial resistance in Canada. The Public Health Agency announced last year that Health Canada’s Veterinary Drugs Directorate would introduce new regulations requiring veterinary oversight of antibiotics used in food animals, such as

Cattle and other animals alter antibiotics as they pass through their digestive systems.

Did you know?, News

Antibiotics manure risk requires a rethink

Manitoba researchers say previous studies ignore the interplay of animals’ digestive systems on the drugs

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 28, 2016

A University of Manitoba research paper may upend the way environmental scientists consider the issue of residual antibiotics in manure. They’re a cause of concern because when they’re fed to animals, a lot of the antibiotics pass right through the animal and into the manure. Scientists have worried that could promote antibiotic resistance. “Often, 90 per

Livestock, News

EU agency wants 65 per cent cut in farm use of last-ditch antibiotic

Colistin is widely used in livestock production and resistant bacteria are growing

By Ben Hirschler June 8, 2016

Agricultural use of a last-resort antibiotic should be cut by two-thirds to limit the spread of dangerous drug resistance, European medicine regulators said on May 26. The demand for strict curbs on giving colistin to animals is the latest in a string of warnings about antimicrobial resistance. It follows the discovery last year of a

News

G7 told to act on antibiotics as dreaded superbug hits U.S.

The U.S. has recorded its first case of resistance to last-resort drug,  but it has already surfaced in Canada and Europe

By Ben Hirschler, Kylie Maclellan June 8, 2016

Britain told the G7 industrial powers on May 27 to do more to fight killer superbugs as the United States reported its first patient with bacteria resistant to a last-resort antibiotic. U.S. scientists said the infection in a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman “heralds the emergence of truly pandrug-resistant bacteria” because it could not be controlled even

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back, hogs continue slide

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat after rally, wheat holds at three-month high

Klassen: Feeder market drops sharply

Tag Archives Antibiotics

The Butler building advantage, rain and slush halts harvest

Cargill stops using human antibiotic against disease in turkeys

Shareholders press Yum for stricter antibiotics policy

Wendy’s aims for antibiotic-free chicken by next year

McDonald’s to remove corn syrup from buns

Beef 911: The pros and cons of hormone-free beef programs

Regulatory changes would limit farmers’ vet drug imports

Antibiotics manure risk requires a rethink

EU agency wants 65 per cent cut in farm use of last-ditch antibiotic

G7 told to act on antibiotics as dreaded superbug hits U.S.

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