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Hog Industry Announces New Sustainability Commitments

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Major and possibly expensive changes lie ahead for Manitoba hog producers as the result of a new road map for the industry’s future. The Manitoba Pork Council plan released last week commits the province’s 700 pork producers to eliminating sow gestation stalls within the next 15 years. “Manitoba Pork commits to encouraging producers to phase
Livestock

Producers Make Room For New Calves

Prices for most types of cattle at the various auction marts in Manitoba generally managed to hold steady, if not improve at some locations during the week ended March 18. The marketings hitting the auction yards were large, but demand was equal to the task. Cattle weighing under 750 pounds continued to be in strong
Crops

China To Promote GM Crop Planting

China will promote the planting of genetically modified crops over the next five years to 2015,Caijing Magazine’swebsite March 13 cited a senior agricultural official as saying. Chen Mengshan, the Agriculture Ministry’s chief economist, gave no further details, according to the report carried on www.caijing.com.cn. China is the largest producer of GMO cotton, but it has
Crops

Bee Deaths May Signal Wider Pollination Threat

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Mass deaths of bee colonies in many parts of the world may be part of a wider, hidden threat to wild insect pollinators vital to human food supplies, a UN study indicated March 10. Declines in flowering plants, a spread of parasites, use of pesticides or air pollution were among more than a dozen factors
Crops

China GMO Corn Hits Policy Deadlock

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China’s first strain of genetically modified corn is facing policy deadlock and may take years before it can be planted, a Chinese researcher said on March 7. China gave the phytase corn safety approval in late 2009, and at the time scientists said they expected large-scale production could happen as early as 2012. The GMO
Livestock, Other livestock

Bronco-Busting Mentality Going By The Wayside

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Wendy Schabrel faced a difficult decision when her daughter moved away from home, leaving her three horses behind. Schabrel had helped care for the animals but hadn’t ridden much since being repeatedly bucked off by a cantankerous gelding when she was a child growing up on the farm in Saskatchewan. Still, the thought of selling
Livestock, Other livestock

Sheep &Goat Sales – for Mar. 24, 2011

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There was nothing green at the Winnipeg Livestock Auction on St. Patrick’s Day March 17, 2011. The bidding prices were more constant than the weather of the day – rain followed by rain pellets and then snow. The classification of ewes remained within a steady price range, for this sale, from $0.675 to $0.86 per
Livestock, Poultry

No One In Charge Of Antibiotic Issue

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A2002 Health Canada report mapped out a plan for veterinary medicines that would have solved many of the current controversies about antibiotic resistance in meat products, says John Prescott, a professor at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph. “This was an absolutely outstanding report which involved considerable work and effort from many people across the
Crops

Researchers Seek Causes Of Honeybee Colony Collapse

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Birds do it, fleas do it but when bees do it, it is worth some $200 billion to the world economy. That’s why scientists are seeking a way to stem mass deaths of the world’s primary pollinator – the honeybee – which affect more than 30 per cent of bee colonies in the United States
Hogs, Livestock

Lactation Management Impacts Future Parity Productivity

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. about two to four and embryo survival by about 10 to 20 per cent, Kemp says. First-litter sows are especially vulnerable, due to their restricted feed

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