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Providing Home Where Buffalo Roam Stirs Battles

By Laura Zuckerman January 20, 2011

For the first time in more than a century, wild buffalo from the nation’s last purebred herd will be permitted to roam free in Montana outside the bounds of Yellowstone National Park. Government scientists plan on Wednesday to drive 25 buffalo, or bison, through ranchlands north of the park and into the wide-open valleys of

Crops

U. S. Panel To Consider Pros, Cons Of GMO Salmon – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Susan Heavey September 23, 2010

The first genetically modified animal could move one step closer to the U. S. market this month, when a federal advisory panel makes its recommendation on whether such food– a salmon – is safe for consumers to eat. Both Food and Drug Administration staff and the salmon’s maker, Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc., have said the

Country Crossroads

MRTFA Makes Fingerlings Available

By Candy Irwin February 18, 2010

Do you have a dugout, pond, slough or lake on your property? Would you like to have some fishing fun and perhaps save a little money on your grocery bill? For a mere 35 cents per fish, you can purchase baby rainbow trout and “plant” them in a suitable location for your own fishing and

Hogs, Livestock

Source Of Infection A Mystery

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 25, 2009

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency insists a herd of pigs in Alberta infected with the H1N1 swine flu got it from a person, even though a prime suspect in the case was cleared. “Contact with an infected person remains the most likely source of infection on this farm,” CFIA said in a statement last week

Beef cattle, News, Poultry

Red Meat Boosts Cancer Risk: Study

By Ron Friesen April 2, 2009

“I don’t think it paints a picture of what is generally happening with consumers’ dietary habits.” – RON GLASER, BIC Battered by low incomes, trade challenges and other woes, Canadian livestock producers’ latest problem is a new study which says eating red meat can shorten your life. The U. S. study tracked half a million

Livestock

Virus To Cut Chile Salmon Output

March 12, 2009

Salmon output in Chile, the world’s No. 2 producer, will fall around 30 per cent in 2009 from a year earlier to around 320,000 tonnes as the industry grapples with a lethal virus, leading industry association SalmonChile said March 6. Rodrigo Infante, CEO of SalmonChile – which groups Chile’s main salmon producers – said he

News

One-third of world fish catch used for animal feed

By Deborah Zabarenko November 6, 2008

“Does it make sense to take three to five pounds of perfectly good food and convert it into only one pound of food?” – Ellen Pikitch, Institute for Ocean Conservation Science One-third of the world’s ocean fish catch is ground up for animal feed, a potential problem for marine ecosystems and a waste of a

News

Ocean feedlots big business

By Allan Dawson October 16, 2008

There’s many a night Norm Penton has been rocked to sleep by the gentle rolling of the sea and calming sound of lapping waves while working on a British Columbia salmon farm. Salmon farms are operated by two to four people who live and work on the floating farms for eight days followed by six

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle extend gains on improving cash prices, packer demand

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide on China demand doubts

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

Tag Archives Fish

Providing Home Where Buffalo Roam Stirs Battles

U. S. Panel To Consider Pros, Cons Of GMO Salmon – for Sep. 23, 2010

MRTFA Makes Fingerlings Available

Source Of Infection A Mystery

Red Meat Boosts Cancer Risk: Study

Virus To Cut Chile Salmon Output

One-third of world fish catch used for animal feed

Ocean feedlots big business

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