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The statistics prove it — higher yields with Manitoba maple syrup

It’s now easier than ever to sell snake oil, says University of Manitoba  soil scientist Don Flaten

By Allan Dawson April 2, 2015

It’s easier than ever to sell snake oil as a fertilizer, supplement or replacement, so for farmers it’s “buyer beware,” warns Don Flaten, a professor of soil science at the University of Manitoba. “It’s what I’d call the Wild West,” Flaten told agronomists attending an Agvise Laboratories meeting here March 18. “With the Wild West

Harvested canola affected by verticillium wilt

Crops

CFIA says reporting suspected verticillium wilt helps the farmer and Canada

How the yield-robbing disease is handled long term will depend on how widespread it is,  which CFIA will determine with a survey later this year

By Allan Dawson April 1, 2015

Canola growers should avoid the temptation to “shoot, shovel and shut up” rather than report suspected cases of verticillium longisporum, says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The yield-robbing disease was detected for the first time in Canada on a Manitoba research farm last November. CFIA is concerned that farmers will not report the disease for

Livestock

Vesicular stomatitis: A travel advisory

Horse Health: The rules have changed for transporting horses across Canada-U.S. border

By Carol Shwetz February 13, 2015

The importance of vesicular stomatitis to horse owners in Western Canada is relatively small, that is unless your horse(s) are travelling to or from southwestern locations in the United States. If so vesicular stomatitis will demand significant attention in your travel plans. Although Canada is currently free of vesicular stomatitis and has been since it

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Hens near Chilliwack catch H5N1 avian flu

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 7, 2015

About 95 layer hens on a “non-commercial” farm near Chilliwack are the Fraser Valley’s latest cases of avian influenza, but not of the same strain seen at 12 other farms in December. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Saturday announced a quarantine on the Chilliwack farm after confirming, effective Feb. 2, that table egg-laying birds

tractor fertilizing a crop as seen from above

Crops

It’s buyer beware when purchasing crop fertilizer: don’t pay $12 per acre for ‘foo-foo dust’

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency no longer tests fertilizers for efficacy  and quality, so it’s buyer beware

By Madeleine Baerg October 27, 2014

A “streamlining” of federal oversight of crop fertilizers has opened the door to deceptive marketing claims and forced product testing on to farmers. “There have always been con men trying to sell you things with dubious claims. It’s just maybe easier for them now,” said Harry Brook, a crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural

Most North Americans use velvet antler as dried powder in capsules, for recovery from injury or exercise, to boost testosterone, and improve circulation.

Livestock, Oilseeds, Opinion, Other livestock

Regaining access to China markets

Tainted food scandals have convinced Chinese buyers that imports are safer

By Ian Thorleifson July 22, 2014

Cervid (elk and other deer) products have been used and prized in China for at least 2,700 years. That makes China a very valuable marketplace for cervid products. Indeed, it was a good market until Canada and the U.S. took action to contain and eradicate BSE in early 2003. China immediately closed its markets to

Beef cattle, Livestock

Meat processors applaud tenderized beef labelling

But they say ground beef should also carry cautionary labels

By Alex Binkley June 4, 2014

Meat processors are welcoming Health Canada’s regulations for mandatory cooking advisory labels on all mechanically tenderized beef (MTB) products but wonder why retailers aren’t required to put similar labels on ground beef packages. Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council, said in an interview the department’s MTB labelling order, which comes into effect Aug.

Livestock, News

Farms quarantined due to delays in TB testing

Cattle movements are restricted indefinitely

By Daniel Winters May 22, 2014

A dozen farms in the Riding Mountain Eradication Area (RMEA) have been put under open-ended quarantine by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency due to delays in testing for bovine tuberculosis. “Essentially, anybody who was scheduled to test and has not yet tested is now under quarantine,” said federally appointed TB co-ordinator Allan Preston. Preston said

Opinion

Coming clean on antibiotics

By Laura Rance-Unger May 19, 2014

Canadian health and veterinary authorities have been discussing the virtually unregulated and poorly monitored antibiotic use in farm animals since the late 1990s. Now Health Canada is starting to do something about it. In new protocols to be phased in over the next three years, producers wishing to use antibiotics considered important to human medicine

News

New deputy minister appointed to federal Agriculture Department

Andrea Lyon steps in as deputy minister as Suzanne Vinet retires

By Alex Binkley April 28, 2014

Andrea Lyon will have a hard act to follow when she takes over as deputy minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada succeeding Suzanne Vinet, who held the post for nearly two hectic years. Vinet is retiring after 28 years in the federal civil service including several stints in agriculture as well as senior executive posts

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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