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Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Beef processors don’t need another subsidy

As a cattle producer, I question the motives of those who are prepared to give Canada’s largest cattle processors another subsidy as cited in the story “Tories accused of stalling SRM subsidy, Manitoba Co-operator Dec. 17. Brad Wildeman claims to represent primary producers (cow-calf operators) in his function as head of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.
Crops

Syngenta, Arysta Swap Weed Killer Licences

Syngenta Crop Protection and Arysta LifeScience have signed licensing deals to make new herbicides using one of each other’s chemistries. Syngenta will use flucarbazone chemistry, the active ingredient in Arysta’s Group 2 herbicide Everest, to produce Sierra and Pace herbicides. Sierra will be a Group 2 graminicide based on flucarbazone, which Syngenta said provides “an
Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Cattle Numbers Still Historically Low

The number of cattle being fattened in U. S. feedlots as of Nov. 1 was up about 1.5 per cent from last year’s low supply, but remained low historically as the weak economy has discouraged cattle production and hurt beef demand. The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly Cattle on Feed report, released Friday, put
Hogs, Livestock, News

Maple Leaf To Conduct Hog Loading Site Inspections

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Maple Leaf Meats is increasing its surveillance of loading practices for hogs shipped to the company’s slaughter plant at Brandon. Maple Leaf will conduct assessments at loading sites in Manitoba between now and December 2010, a company official said. Sixteen farms randomly selected from Maple Leaf’s hog operation network will undergo loading assessments to ensure
Livestock

Cattle Marketings A Record Low

USDA reported Sept. 18 the cattle supply on major U. S. feedlots at 9.882 million head, or 99 per cent of a year ago. The amount of cattle placed onto feedlots during August was put at 2.110 million, or 102 per cent of last year, cattle marketed during August at 1.81 million, or 96 per
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In Brief… – for Aug. 27, 2009

U. S. herd liquidation begins: Struggling U. S. hog producers appear to be heeding pressure from lenders and have accelerated selling their sows to reduce herds and hopefully drive up hog and pork prices in 2010, livestock sources said Aug. 20. While the latest government data, which is two weeks old, shows sow liquidation still
Crops

Sippell Named CSTA President

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Dave Sippell, president of Syngenta Seeds Canada, was named the 71st president of the Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) following the association’s annual meeting in Whistler, B. C. Sippell said the seed trade will face the challenge of feeding the world’s growing population as competitors because “that makes us more efficient and effective, but as
Livestock, Other livestock

Ont. Backs Abattoir In Northwest

The Ontario government will put up another $500,000 toward a new multi-species abattoir for the province’s northwestern Rainy River district. The investment, flowing through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. (NOHFC), will bring provincial support for the non-profit, community-owned abattoir project to $1 million, the province said July 21. The facility will be at a
Hogs, Livestock

High Litter Size Requires New Approach

bernie peet Peet on Pigs 1345 775 13.8 14.0 1.4 1.1 10.0 11.9 11.0 11.4 12.5 12.1 2.47 2.47 18.5 23.4 5.7 4.9 94.6 96.2 31.0 29.9 Breeding herd performance data for two high-performing herds Number of sows in herd Pigs born alive/litter Pigs born dead/litter Pre-wean mortality ( per cent) Pigs weaned/litter weaned Pigs
Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Automated System Puts Cows In Charge

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The quietest dairy farm you’ve ever visited. David Wiens has the kind of dairy farm where the cows practically run the place. Of course, computers help a lot, too. David and his brother Charles own Skyline Dairy, one of the most cow-friendly milking operations you’ll see in Manitoba. The cows decide when they want to

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