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Cattle Evacuation Continues Around Lake Manitoba

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Art Jonasson is a farmer by long distance this year, thanks to unprecedented spring flooding on Lake Manitoba. The Vogar-area farmer’s cattle are scattered across the province because of an emergency evacuation of livestock in the region ahead of water spreading inland from the swollen lake. He has no idea when they’ll be able to
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MBP Is First Stop For Cattle Evacuation Information

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Cattle producers affected by the flooding crisis are urged to get in touch with Manitoba Beef Producers as their first point of contact. MBP is an information clearing house about available pasture land for producers who need to evacuate cattle. It can also advise producers forced to move animals about sources to contact and procedures
Livestock, News

Low-Stress Cattle Handling For Injury Prevention

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The Lundar Agricultural Society is hoping to make life a little more boring for Manitoba cattle producers. The society is bringing in Dawn Hnatow, a livestock manager for Addison Ranch in Bowie, Texas who conducts workshops on low-stress cat-t le handling across North America. There will be two days of workshops, on June 17 and
Livestock

Floods Spur More Cattle, Fewer Buyers To Markets

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The high Assiniboine River has not only caused a number of citizens to evacuate their homes in southern Manitoba, but also forced one Manitoba cattle auction mart to cancel its sale during the week ended May 16. Heartland Livestock Services, whose Brandon location is just south of the Assiniboine River, decided it was in its
Livestock

Mass Evacuation For Cattle Near Lake Manitoba

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One of the largest livestock evacuations in Manitoba history is underway in the Interlake region as cattle producers frantically try to move their herds away from rising Lake Manitoba flood waters. Producers are desperately seeking alternative temporary homes for tens of thousands of cattle displaced by unprecedented flooding around the lower Lake Manitoba basin. Manitoba
Livestock

Interlake Producers Brace For Spillover From West

The spring season is now more than halfway complete, but that has not stopped flooding problems, creating a number of challenges for producers in the Interlake. With the Assiniboine River rising to record levels, officials have been forced to fill the Portage Diversion in Portage la Prairie to its capacity, flowing north to Lake Manitoba.
Livestock

BeefTalk: A Significant Storm Event

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Asignificant storm event occurred April 30 in western North Dakota. Significant storm events actually occurred in several areas of the country last week, resulting in the tragic loss of life. Our hearts go out to those who lost family and friends. As cattle producers, each brash attack from Mother Nature should cause us to ponder
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Officials Reject U.S. Criticism Of Supply Management

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Canadian dairy officials are dismissing a U.S. industry report which claims supply management for milk does not work. The report by a U.S. dairy processors association plays fast and loose with the facts when it says supply management restricts industry growth and does not reduce price volatility, said Phil Cairns, senior policy adviser with Dairy
Livestock

Prices Still Strong, But Feed Costs Take Big Bite

Ca t t l e prices and numbers both held firm at Manitoba auction yards during the week ended April 29, as the markets were in the middle of the last push of the season before activity slows down during the spring and summer. “Butcher cattle are as strong as we’ve seen them for years,”
Livestock, News

Environment Threatens Human-Animal Relationship, Scientist Says

People may have to change the way they work with animals if they want the world to have a sustainable future, a recent conference at the University of Manitoba was told. The historical relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, which has lasted for ages, may now be too environmentally burdensome to cont inue, an

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