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Use Horse Sense When Winter Grazing

December 16, 2010

Many ranchers who stockpile grass or swaths to feed during the winter months have one great fear: deep, crusted snow that cows can’t punch through. In some areas, such as the northern Rocky Mountains, ranchers have tried driving a tractor or even dragging a field cultivator over the crusted snow to open it up. But

Hogs, Livestock

Clock Ticking On Open Sow Housing Decisions

By Ron Friesen December 16, 2010

Awatershed in sow housing is coming to Manitoba in the next five years and pork producers are unprepared, says a University of Manitoba swine specialist. Many hog barns will soon have to retool their aging equipment, including gestation stalls, said Laurie Connor, who heads the University of Manitoba’s animal science department. Producers need to decide

Country Crossroads

Tracking The Bears

By Candy Irwin December 16, 2010

Manitoba Natural Resources and the Canadian Park Service commissioned a study in the ’80s to try and discover if bear movements, home ranges and densities were influenced by the placement of hunting baits around the periphery of Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP). With the use of spring-activated cable snares and culvert traps set at various

Livestock, Other livestock

Sheep &Goat Sales – for Dec. 16, 2010

By Mark Elliot December 16, 2010

Interest and demand for sheep and goats remained high at the Dec. 2 sale at Winnipeg Livestock Auction. Bidding was even higher than in November for the 685 sheep and goats that moved through the sale. The demand for ewes was high. The younger ewes sold above the day’s price range, thus creating an upper

Livestock

Less Predictability Seen In Christmas Clearance Sales

By MarketsFarm Team December 16, 2010

There were still some good numbers of cattle moving through the auction yards in Manitoba, as producers try to clean up marketings ahead of the holiday season shutdown. Values for the cattle marketed held generally steady but did manage to strengthen a bit at some locations. “As we move towards the Christmas and New Year’s

Beef cattle, Livestock

BSE-Testing Argument Continues To Have Financial Potential

By Madeleine Baerg December 9, 2010

Lawyer and Alberta rancher David Pope is on a one-man crusade to gain market access for Canadian beef in Japan. For the cost of a $15-per-carcass BSE test, Pope argues Canadian cattle could fetch as much as $500 per head above current prices. Pope has been waging his crusade for the past five years, but

Hogs, Livestock, News

Stall-Free Petition Tops 10,000 Signatures

By Ron Friesen December 2, 2010

Bill McDonald hauled a garbage bag half full of paper into the deputy agriculture minister’s office last week to press his case against sow gestation stalls in Manitoba. The bag contained petitions carrying over 10,000 signatures demanding the province pass laws to eliminate the stalls. “We thought it was significant to show the government physically

News

Province increases subsidy for controlling problem beavers

By Manitoba Government Release December 2, 2010

The province is increasing the subsidy paid to rural municipalities and registered trappers dealing with problem beavers in all areas of the province, Manitoba Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie announced Nov. 24. The increase to $20 from $15 per animal is to assist rural municipalities in dealing with an abundance of beavers that are causing substantial

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Flying For 79 Floors

By Alan Guebert December 2, 2010

Twice a week,New York Timescolumnist Thomas L. Friedman drives political and economic policy-makers into full rant on topics as opposite as global free trade (he loves it) and national industrial policy (he loves it, too). Kiss him or kick him, Friedman can turn a phrase. A current Friedmanism notes that “If you jump off the

Beef cattle, Livestock

Sales Expected To Turn Down Towards Christmas

By MarketsFarm Team December 2, 2010

Ca t t l e cont inued to be sold at a steady pace at Manitoba auction marts during the week ending November 26, despite a snowstorm that dropped in the neighbourhood of 15 centimetres in many parts of the province. Robin Hill, manager of Heartland Livestock Services in Virden, said volume was close to

Daily Network News

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