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An upcoming survey is going to define the predation problem and look at potential solutions.
Livestock, News

Producers asked to share information on predation

Producers can expect to see a survey in early December as part of the Livestock Predation Prevention Project

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Sheep and cattle producers are being called to share their experiences with predation. The Livestock Predation Prevention Project, launched earlier this year, will be releasing a producer survey in the hopes of gathering producer data on predation. Why it matters: Producers are being asked to give their insights on predation as the Livestock Predation Prevention
File photo of gray wolves howling in British Columbia. (Pac9012/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

U.S. lifts federal protections for gray wolf

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Reuters — The Trump administration in the U.S. said Thursday said it will lift Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf, arguing the species had been brought back successfully from the brink of extinction. The move gives states in the continuous United States the authority to manage their local wolf populations, including by allowing
Manitoba livestock producers have long-standing issues with livestock predation. They’re hoping a new super-department combining agriculture and some of the former conservation portfolio may help address them.
Livestock, Local news, News

Livestock predation losses could gain fresh attention

Beef producers hope departmental amalgamation will kickstart action

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Manitoba beef producers are hoping a provincial cabinet consolidation will mean action at long last on predation losses. They’ve had a long-standing complaint, but it was an agriculture issue that was under the authority of the provincial Conservation Ministry. Now fish and wildlife management is part of the new provincial Department of Manitoba Agriculture and
Wolves, coyotes, cougars, bears and other predators are responsible for mounting losses for the province’s beef and sheep producers.
Livestock

Predators taxing livestock ranchers

A working group is eyeing a pilot project to seek solution

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Predation losses are mounting, and producer frustration is growing. The issue of livestock kills is once again high on the agenda of beef producers as they gather at district meetings this fall. Wolves and other predators repeatedly take out animals, and aggravation is mounting that solutions to a problem as pressing as this gain so
Beef cattle feeding in Ontario. (DebraLee Wiseberg/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Ontario plugs holes in wildlife compensation plan

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Ontario’s agriculture ministry has patched a glitch in its wildlife damage compensation program, in which farmers’ claims risked rejection over the validity of their farm business registrations. “We heard livestock farmers’ concerns with the program so we’re making the first changes effective immediately,” Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman said in a release Monday. “We’re also continuing
Manitoba beef producers say the government needs to tackle a growing predation problem from wolves and other large predators.
Beef cattle, Local news

Manitoba Beef Producers pushes for predation action

The 2018 Manitoba Beef Producers AGM saw multiple resolutions on the topic

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The Manitoba Beef Producers membership is getting fed up with a growing predation problem in parts of the province. Manitoba Beef Producers members heartily adopted all six resolutions on predation put forward this year at the AGM, Feb. 8-9 in Brandon, most aimed at prompting provincial action. Predation has been a long-standing issue between the
Beef producers are being asked to fill out a survey on cattle losses during this fall’s district meetings.
Livestock, Local news

MBP seeks producer data on predation losses

Beef operators are urged to fill out a survey and help assess the extent of the problem

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Manitoba Beef Producers needs members to put some numbers to what they say is the impact predators are having on the provincial beef herd. They repeatedly hear about losses and producers now make impassioned pleas to have something done about the pressure on herds, particularly from wolf attacks, general manager Brian Lemon told district meetings which
Livestock producers say they’re losing more animals to wolves and the requirement for evidence for compensation is hard to fulfil.
Beef cattle, Local news

Beef producers seeing more wolf kills

Wolf predation is a growing concern among producers, says association president

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A decade ago spotting a wolf was rare in this part of Manitoba’s Interlake. But the one Robert Green shot last fall wasn’t skulking through the bush around their Fisher Branch-area cow-calf operation. The animal had come right into their farmyard. It’s not the only close encounter the Greens have had with wolves lately either.
Wolves in Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert National Park in 2014. (Parks Canada photo, pc.gc.ca)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Saskatchewan to thin out wolf pack along treeline

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Aiming to prevent “wolf-livestock conflicts” in the region, Saskatchewan’s environment department will again offer a wolf hunting season along the provincial forest fringe starting Saturday. The wolf hunt, running from Oct. 15, 2016 through to March 31, 2017, is to be allowed in wildlife management zones 43 (Melfort, Tisdale), 47 (North Battleford, Turtleford), 48 (Preeceville,

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