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Beneficial Plant Sterols Not Available To Canadians

By Ronald Doering July 9, 2009

Health Canada’s minister should listen to her provincial colleagues, all overwhelmed by the costs of health care, not the least from the public cost of drugs to treat CHD. The recently released report by Food and Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC) titled Food Regulatory Systems: Canada’s Performance in the Global Marketplace is yet another study

News

New Park In Memory Of Late Conservationist Don Alexander

By Allan Dawson July 9, 2009

The green and fertile farmland seen from this vantage point on the edge of the Pembina Escarpment was once prehistoric Lake Amasses. It’s fitting that a place that affords such a view is named for the late Don Alexander, a veteran conservationist and conservation leader. Alexander, who died from cancer Jan. 20 at age 74,

Dairy cattle, Livestock

SARA In The Stomach Makes Dairy Cows Moody

By Ron Friesen July 9, 2009

SARA can be an economically important problem for milk producers. A little-known disease lurking silently in the rumens of dairy cows may be robbing milk producers of hundreds of dollars in lost production without anyone realizing it. It’s basically acid indigestion but with a fancy scientific name: subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA). SARA is a metabolic

Hogs, News

Pork Industry’s Chickens Come Home To Roost

By Ron Friesen July 2, 2009

One by one, hog farmers trooped to the microphone, struggling with a balky sound system to tell stories of financial ruin and to appeal for government aid. “At least give us some dignity to retire after working for 45 years,” Menno Bergen pleaded with a speakers’ panel of politicians and industry officials. Bergen put his

News

AMM’s Leaders Want Rural Medical School

By Lorraine Stevenson June 25, 2009

Manitoba’s budget for recruiting foreign doctors would be better spent providing medical training to people from rural and remote communities, a Brandon physican who is proposing a 25-seat medical school for Brandon University says. Dr. Derry Decter gained more support for the idea at a meeting of southwestern municipal leaders last week. They gave him

Cereals, Crops

Give Farmers A Say In Commercializing GM Crops

By Allan Dawson June 25, 2009

Since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops can have a huge impact on farmers they should have a say in whether GM crops get commercialized, says Ian Mauro, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria’s School of Environmental Studies. Canada’s current ‘science-based’ regulatory process doesn’t take socioeconomic factors into account in the approval

Livestock

New Filter Removes P From Water

By Allan Dawson June 25, 2009

“It’s affordable to point where we think individual farmers could run it.” – ROBERT GERVAIS When farmer and longtime conservationist Gordon Orchard first heard about a relatively simple process for removing dissolved phosphorus from water he thought it was too good to be true. After all, there’s no disputing there’s too much of it in

Livestock

Hay Foot, Straw Foot Better For Pigs

By Ron Friesen June 25, 2009

Pigs can be healthier and more productive with straw under their feet instead of just bare concrete, research at the University of Manitoba indicates. A three-year study at the University of Manitoba’s National Centre for Livestock and the Environment found that group-housed gestating sows on straw had fewer leg and hoof problems and better productivity.

Crops

Burning Suggested As A Weed Control Method

By Ron Friesen June 11, 2009

“It won’t be 100 per cent effective but it will obviously reduce the number of weed seeds.” – GARY MARTENS A new study has cast a fresh light on the method of controlling weeds through burning – not the plants themselves but the seeds they leave behind. “Fire is capable of sharply reducing the probability

News

Manitoba Dogs Monitored For Lyme Disease

By Manitoba Veterinary Medical June 4, 2009

Manitoba’s veterinarians are tracking the incidence of Lyme disease in dogs to contribute to veterinary and public health official understanding of the geographic presence of this bacterial infection transmitted to animals and humans through deer tick bites. A simple in-clinic blood test typically run in conjunction with heartworm testing identifies to veterinarians if a dog

Daily Network News

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Beneficial Plant Sterols Not Available To Canadians

New Park In Memory Of Late Conservationist Don Alexander

SARA In The Stomach Makes Dairy Cows Moody

Pork Industry’s Chickens Come Home To Roost

AMM’s Leaders Want Rural Medical School

Give Farmers A Say In Commercializing GM Crops

New Filter Removes P From Water

Hay Foot, Straw Foot Better For Pigs

Burning Suggested As A Weed Control Method

Manitoba Dogs Monitored For Lyme Disease

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