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U.S. reports world’s first deer with COVID-19

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 27, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government said Friday it had confirmed the world’s first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported infections of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in wild white-tailed deer in the state of

Drought conditions have beekeepers and bears on a collision course as natural food sources dry up this year.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

Hungry for hives: Bears wreaking havoc with beekeepers

The drought has affected ursine food sources making bee yards tempting targets

By Alexis Stockford August 3, 2021

One look across Paul Gregory’s bee yard near Arborg might spark the urge to check the sky. Despite the cliché, it does look like a weak tornado might have blown through. Across the yard, previously neat stacks of beehive boxes lie strewn. Frames are damaged, licked clean and scattered across the ground as if in

June bugs are an important food source for many other insects.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: June bugs. The ‘crouton of the sky’

Widely thought a pest, these creatures deserve a second look

By Paul Manning June 9, 2021

Many people grit their teeth in anticipation of the arrival of June bugs. You might already have had your first run-in with one. Perhaps you heard one clumsily bounce off your window? Maybe you saw one loop around the porch light? Possibly, you felt one tangle its six sticky legs into your hair? June bugs,

Wildlife, especially rodents like raccoons and rats, can transmit leptospirosis to so-called ‘closed herds.’

Beef cattle, Livestock

Don’t be fooled into thinking a ‘closed herd’ is an excuse for inaction

Beef 911: Transmission can occur from wildlife, via spores or breeding bulls, so be proactive

By Roy Lewis June 2, 2021

In my travels, on calls or when talking to other veterinarians’ producers, I still hear some hide behind the proverbial, ‘I don’t do that because I have a closed herd.’ It is an absolute misconception that because a herd is ‘closed,’ it is protected. That is a very broad statement and may apply to a

Mice can cause significant damage to on-farm grain storage, with contamination of grain with mouse droppings even leading to rejection by grain distributors and exporters.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: ‘No one ever forgets living through a mouse plague’

The dystopia facing Australian rural communities, explained by an expert

By Steve Henry May 19, 2021

Imagine constantly living with mice. Every time you open a cupboard to get linen, clothes or food, mice have been or are still there. When you go to sleep they run across your bed and, in the morning, your first job is to empty traps filled with dead mice. And the stench of dead mice

Swans and mallard ducks, seen using a car as a photography blind.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

Continue with bird activities in spring

With the new season come new avian arrivals and observation opportunities

By Donna Gamache April 21, 2021

Are you one of those who has recently taken up watching birds, or feeding or photographing them? With most Manitobans staying close to home, these have become new hobbies for many. With the arrival of spring, there are different birds to watch for, new requirements in bird feeding and maybe some changes in how you

Some areas of Western Canada might already be past the point where “pig free” is even possible, says a University of Saskatchewan researcher.

Farmit Manitoba

Losing the war with wild boar

Forget eradication. For some parts of Manitoba it’s now a containment game

By Alexis Stockford March 31, 2021

It’s time to up our efforts in the battle against wild pigs, according to a leading voice in the field. Ryan Brook of the University of Saskatchewan has spent years studying the rise of the invasive species in Western Canada, and has also spent years raising the alarm. He has watched as sounders — the

Farmit Manitoba

Beavers unlikely inspiration in drought mitigation

‘Biomimicry’ brought the Coen farm back from the edge of a water disaster

By Geralyn Wichers March 9, 2021

If you look closely at a Coen family photograph taken over 100 years ago, you’ll spot a well in the back corner of the picture. It’s hand-dug, about 20 feet deep — all it took to find drinkable water in 1914. Today, the farm’s wells are 180 feet deep. Takota Coen told his audience at

Wolf spiders, robber flies, coyotes and burrowing owls are happy to dine on grasshoppers.

Crops

Predators line up for grasshoppers

Grasshoppers might be voracious — but so are the many things that consume them

By Gord Leathers February 9, 2021

Farmers fear grasshoppers because, according to legend, they eat everything. There’s a flip side to this and farmers can use it to their advantage. In the grand scheme of Prairie ecology everything eats grasshoppers. “They do have a positive side,” Dan Johnson of the University of Lethbridge told the Manitoba Agronomists Conference earlier this winter.

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

By Alexis Stockford November 27, 2020

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

Daily Network News

Health Canada stops sales of coccidiosis medication Deccox on procedural issue

Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

Olymel parent company sees increased earnings in 2025

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