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U. S. Food Safety Worries Hit Canadian Canola Meal

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Salmonella-tainted Canadian canola meal has run into a headwind of American food-safety concerns, a trend that threatens to pressure canola futures during a rapid expansion period for the industry. Since March, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has refused one Canadian shipment of canola (a variant of rapeseed) and three shipments of canola meal.
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High-Tech Tricks Save Chemical

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“You start thinking, jeez, I wonder if we should be spraying this field?” – TERRY ABERHART A thick, even stand of canola makes it easy to justify investing in a fungicide application to ward off sclerotinia. But what if it suddenly thins out because of frost, too wet, too dry, uneven germination or too much
Livestock, Oilseeds

Do Horses Need Extra Fat?

carol shwetz dvm Benefits of flaxseed supplementation include stimulation of the immune system, relief from arthritis, reduction of inflammation, and improved skin and hair coat. Feeding sources of fat to horses is currently one of the most fashionable topics in modern horse-keeping nutrition. This is a rather peculiar topic since natural horse diets are very
Country Crossroads

Lighting Up The Past

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Keeping the globe clean was important so that the light was bright enough. When my daughter-in-law took the old coal oil lantern from the shed where it had been stored since 1952, it brought back many memories. The lantern was much like the one my parents had on the farm when I was a child.
Forages, Livestock

Weekly Manitoba Cattle Report

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The quiet seasonal summer markets persistedat cat-t le yards around Manitoba during the week ended July 31, with most auction sites still shut down for the season. Volumes should start to pick up over the upcoming few weeks, although the fall run is still some time away. “It’s probably one of the quietest summers we’ve
Cereals, Crops

Early Warning For Fusarium In Oats Lacking

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The symptoms of fusarium head blight in cereal crops are classic. Portions of the heads appear bleached, blighted and straw coloured. But while it’s easy to detect fusarium in wheat and barley, it’s not so easy in oats. Commercial oats tend not to show symptoms of the disease until the crop is practically in the
Forages, Livestock

Manitoba Producers Keep Eye On Hay Harvest

DWAYNE KLASSEN RNI “The numbers being marketed are just not enough to fill the trucks.” The summer doldrums continued to dominate the cattle auction yards in Manitoba during the week ended July 24. The number of marketings hitting the auctions continued to be on the light side, with values for most classes of animals seeing
Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Pasta Salad

Here’s a tasty pasta recipe provided to us this week by Helen Koal of Cromer, Man. Helen writes that this recipe has served her family well for over 50 years! 1 red pepper, chopped 1 green pepper, chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 cucumber or 1/2 English cucumber 3 finely chopped onions 2 diced tomatoes
Country Crossroads

Don’t Forget To Eat Some Blueberries

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Blueberries and other berries are superstars in the nutrition world because of their high antioxidant content. Antioxidants are natural chemicals that combat the effects of environmental contaminants that can damage your cells. Antioxidant-rich foods are linked to helping prevent cancer and aging. Studies have shown that aging rats fed antioxidant-rich blueberry, strawberry or spinach extracts
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

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