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Cattle cross into a paddock with fresh forage within Ted Unruh’s rotational grazing system near Cromer, Man.

Turning back the clock with grazing

Cattle can help fill the biodiversity void left from the loss of bison

By Don Norman October 3, 2023

Cattle are often maligned for their contributions to greenhouse gas levels, but Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Tim McAllister says that’s wrongheaded. “We hear about people advocating for the need to eliminate livestock from agriculture production, basically without really understanding the negative connotations that would have,” the researcher said during a University of Manitoba webinar in August. “We really need to be

Comment, Op/Ed

COVID-19 isn’t over for white-tailed deer

The virus mutates rapidly in white-tailed deer, but here’s why we don’t need to worry — for now

By Colin Michie September 25, 2023

At some point during the pandemic, Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread from humans to white-tailed deer in North America. In 2021, scientists revealed that 40 per cent of white-tailed deer sampled in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York state in the U.S. had antibodies for the virus. Surveillance of these deer continues, and

Livestock

Funding set to improve Ontario deadstock removal, disposal

Application intake open as of Sept. 21

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 25, 2023

Ontario’s livestock producers could see more and improved options for pickup and sustainable disposal of deadstock through a new federal/provincial program now on offer. The Ontario and federal governments on Thursday opened the intake for applications under what they’re calling the Increasing Deadstock Capacity Initiative, budgeted for $1.5 million over two years. The program, to

File photo of farmland around an abandoned farmstead near Swift Current, Sask. (ImagineGolf/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

Saskatchewan front-loads AgriRecovery funding

Joint federal-provincial program development still underway

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 22, 2023

The Saskatchewan government says it will put up to $70 million toward “immediate measures” to support livestock producers, ahead of an expected federal-provincial AgriRecovery program for that purpose. Application forms are expected to be available via Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. (SCIC) “in the coming days” for funding “to help offset extraordinary costs of feeding livestock

An irrigation pivot stands in a field of blooming canola south of Neepawa, July 16.

Farmit Manitoba

PHOTOS: Through the Lens: July in photos

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 28, 2023

This month saw more damaging storms, some hitting the same areas as June, while crops from potatoes to canola went into full bloom. Have a quick look, here.

Crops

Oat miller to steer clear of lambda-cy

Grain Millers bans oats treated with insecticide product

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 28, 2023

The federal government’s decision to ban the use of lambda-cyhalothrin insecticides on any crops destined for feed use has now led at least one Canadian miller to prohibit any deliveries of oats treated with the chemical. Oregon-based processor Grain Millers, whose Canadian operations include its oat mill at Yorkton, Sask., said in a memo Tuesday

Limiting the use of mRNA vaccines would mean losing a new way to protect animals from pathogens that current vaccines can’t fend off.

News

Comment: Beware misinformation on livestock mRNA vaccines

Vaccines using mRNA can protect farm animals — and there are safeguards to keep them out of food

By David Verhoeven June 6, 2023

Effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, but fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions have recently spilled into worries about whether their use in agricultural animals could expose people to components of the vaccine within meat or milk. In fact, a number

Livestock

Animal care council won’t update livestock transport code of practice

NFACC says 'no further action' pending

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 6, 2023

After over four years’ publicly funded work to develop an updated national code of practice for livestock transport for Canada, the National Farm Animal Care Council has called a halt. In an information update dated May 1, NFACC said its board has now decided “no further action will be taken” by the council to update

News

California animal housing law spells trouble for local trade

Prop 12 stipulates out-of-state farms must meet specific housing standards to sell in California -- and Canadian regulations may not meet them

By Geralyn Wichers June 3, 2023

Pork groups say a recently upheld U.S. law, which could reduce the flow of Manitoba-born weanlings to the United States, will contribute to breakdowns in an integrated Canada-U.S. market. If individual states can introduce non-tariff trade barriers, “it will change the fundamental dynamic of how we can handle international trade negotiations,” said Stephen Heckbert, executive

Markets

Net farm income down in 2022 despite high commodity prices: StatCan

Hike in farm fuel, fertilizer and feed costs is the largest in nearly 50 years

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News May 29, 2023

Farmers’ realized net income dropped by over eight per cent in 2022 as expenses outpaced the rise in cash receipts, a new Statistics Canada report says. Realized net income is the difference between cash receipts and operating expenses, minus depreciation and plus income in kind. When cannabis is included, realized net income dropped by nearly

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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