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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau views damage to lobster boats from Hurricane Fiona at Stanley Bridge, P.E.I. on Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Matusiewicz)

Trudeau tours storm-hit Atlantic Canada as power outages persist

Flooding may hit P.E.I. potato crops

By GFM Network News September 27, 2022

Port aux Basques, N.L. | Reuters — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday started a tour of Atlantic Canada, where thousands were still without power after record-setting storm Fiona ravaged the country’s east coast, tossing homes into the sea and killing at least three people. Fiona recorded the lowest barometric pressure ever for a storm

Daniel Wuergler, co-owner of the Gallipool Frasses farm, walks among 18,000 Lohmann Classic laying hens at Les Montets, about 45 km northeast of Lausanne, on Sept. 16, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

Livestock

Swiss reject initiative to ban factory farming

Voters back narrowly back rise in women's retirement age to 65

By GFM Network News September 26, 2022

Geneva | Reuters — Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban factory farming in a referendum on whether the wealthy country’s strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet further. The government’s VoteInfo App showed a provisional result of 62.86 per cent of votes against the proposal, put to a referendum under

Wrecked structures float in the water in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona at Rose Blanche, N.L., about 45 km east of Port aux Basques, on Sept. 25, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/John Morris)

Weather

Cleanup work begins for Eastern Canada after Fiona

Five provinces assessing damage from 'unprecedented' storm

By GFM Network News September 26, 2022

Port aux Basques | Reuters — It will take several months for Canada to restore critical infrastructure after the powerful storm Fiona left an “unprecedented” trail of destruction, officials said on Sunday, as crews fanned out in five provinces to restore power and clean up fallen trees and debris. One 73-year-old woman died during the

Soldier fly larvae like these can convert waste food into high-protein feed.

Comment, Opinion

Comment: Bugs for cows

Feeding insects to cattle could make meat and milk production more sustainable

By Merrit Drewery July 20, 2022

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59 per cent, which is 98 per cent above current levels. In particular, there will be increased demand for high-quality protein foods such as meat and dairy products. Livestock producers

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Planning for the unplannable

By Gord Gilmour June 23, 2022

How do you plan for — and manage — the kind of weather risk Manitoba farmers have suffered through lately? First it was years of prolonged drought, including last year’s acute blast. That crippled crop production, all but halted forage growth and raised the serious risk of some rural communities running out of drinking water.

Alberta’s Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announces funding for the University of Calgary’s faculty of veterinary medicine on May 10, 2022 at the university’s Spyhill campus. (Government of Alberta video screengrab via YouTube)

Livestock

More funds put up to boost Calgary vet school enrolment

Funding added for more staff, materials on top of infrastructure money

By GFM Network News May 12, 2022

The University of Calgary’s faculty of veterinary medicine, fresh off a major capital funding boost in February’s provincial budget, now gets another $8.4 million over three years to help expand enrolment. “This targeted enrolment funding will go towards hiring on more faculty/staff to teach the increased number of students,” Sam Blackett, press secretary for Advanced

File photo of a cornfield in Argentina. (Reisegraf/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Argentine grain truckers strike, threatening exports amid harvest

By GFM Network News, Maximilian Heath April 12, 2022

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Truckers in Argentina began an open-ended strike on Monday to demand higher rates for transporting grain and livestock, an action that could hit grain exports during a key part of the harvest. Argentina, the world’s leading exporter of soy derivatives and second-largest corn exporter, recently started harvesting both grains, which

A custom hauler spreads dairy manure on hay ground using a Husky 18000L Slimline liquid manure spreader on a farm at Wallenstein, Ont., north of Kitchener, in the spring of 2018. (Husky Farm Equipment handout photo via Reuters)

Crops, Markets

No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar

Ontario honeywagon maker all sold out

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek April 7, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard to woo farmers on its benefits for their crops. Now, facing a global shortage of

A restoration company vehicle sits in a flooded field at Abbotsford, B.C. on Nov. 30, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)

Weather

AgriRecovery underway for flood-battered B.C. farms

Feds, province put up $228 million

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 8, 2022

The federal and British Columbia governments’ response to last fall’s destructive flooding now includes what’s said to be the biggest farm disaster recovery package in the province’s history. Provincial Agriculture Minister Lana Popham and her federal counterpart Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced cost-shared funding of $228 million for the Canada-B.C. Flood Recovery for Food Security

U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland attend a video conference with farmers, ranchers and meat processors to discuss meat and poultry supply chain issues, from an auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 3, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Livestock, Markets

Biden unveils plan to boost competition in U.S. meat industry

By GFM Network News January 4, 2022

Reuters — The United States will issue new rules and US$1 billion in funding this year to support independent meat processors and ranchers as part of a plan to address a lack of “meaningful competition” in the meat sector, President Joe Biden said Monday. The initiative comes amid rising concerns that a handful of big

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle make small gains, hogs fall

U.S. grains: Soybeans touch seven-week low on broad sell-off

Public consultations open on four international trade deals

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