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A Volunteer Opportunity For The Birds

By Lorraine Stevenson May 20, 2010

Each spring birdsong fills the air as warblers, chickadees and many other bird species arrive back in Manitoba to pair up and raise their young. But are most birds that ordinarily make Manitoba their breeding grounds still around? Are other species now breeding here? Starting this spring until 2015 ordinary Manitobans will help scientists tracking

Livestock

Auction Yards Might Shut Early For Summer

May 20, 2010

– Gene Parks, Pipestone Livestock Sales “…marketings have been declining and could result in (an) early summer shutdown…” The movement of cattle to auction yards in Manitoba picked up somewhat during the week ended May 14 from the previous week’s level, but the numbers were beginning to slow overall as producers in the province begin

Livestock, News

Raising Cattle On Some Of Europe’s Most Expensive Farmland

By John Morriss May 13, 2010

“There is no castration in Belgium.” – DRIES TI MMERMAN Dries Timmerman is one beef producer who does not boast that his animals are “easy calvers,” but he can claim a pretty good calving percentage – 99.9 per cent. Timmerman raises purebred Belgian Blues – known here as Belgian White and Blue, a breed whose

Livestock

Cattle Sneak Past Briefly Faltering Loonie

May 13, 2010

– Robin Hill, Heartland LivestockServices, Virden “I think we’ve seen most of the cleaning out of the cattle from the yards that we are going to see.” The arrival of pre-c ipitation across Manitoba helped to slow the movement of cattle to the auction yards in the province during the week ended May 7. However,

Other livestock

Grasshoppers Important To Migratory Birds

By Canadian Cattlemen’s May 13, 2010

May 8 is International Migratory Bird Day. Created in 1993, International Migratory Bird Day focuses attention on the remarkable migration of 90 per cent of Canada’s birds back from the southern United States, Mexico and Central America. Unfortunately, many of those bird populations are in decline. The reasons are varied and sometimes uncertain, but mitigated

Country Crossroads

Visit Whitewater Lake Wildlife Management Area

By Donna Gamache May 6, 2010

Manitoba has numerous Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) scattered about the province, some small and others quite large. One of the largest is the Whitewater Lake WMA in southwestern Manitoba, between the towns of Boissevain and Deloraine. If you’re interested in birds, or looking for a new spot to visit, you might like to check it

Opinion, Other livestock

A Serious Lapse In Judgment

By Laura Rance-Unger April 29, 2010

The facts in the case are not in dispute. All that’s open to question is whether the judge assigned to the case will impose a jail sentence instead of a hefty fine. A Steinbach-area trucker pled guilty to charges under the Health of Animals Act after Emerson border guards in Nov. 2007 discovered 14 badly

Livestock, Other livestock

Sheep & Goat Sales – for Apr. 29, 2010

By Mark Elliot April 29, 2010

Ewes Lambs 110 lbs. + 95 110 lbs. 80 94 lbs. under 80 lbs. n/a n/a $187.63 $175.18 $180.90 $147.75 Traditions are difficult to explain – how they started and how they continue. However, one tradition at the Winnipeg Livestock Auction on April 18, 2010 – changed. The prices of the lambs did not go

News, Other livestock

West Side Elk Herd May Be Culled In Final Blitz

By Daniel Winters April 22, 2010

On the map of Riding Mountain National Park’s three TB-management zones, lies a black amoeba-shaped blob. Straight south of Grandview, the irregular-shaped area in the Western Control Zone was created by drawing circles with a six-kilometre radius based on the known home ranges of radio-collared elk that have tested postive for bovine TB under the

Livestock, Other livestock

Capturing Elk With Net Carries Risks

April 22, 2010

Capturing elk with a net gun is not without negative impacts, said Ken Kingdon, Parks Canada project co-ordinator for the RMNP wildlife health program. Tranquilizer darts are not used, because if the elk or deer leave the park and are later shot and eaten by hunters, drug residues in the meat may be harmful. Also,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

U.S. grains: Corn futures set June high on US export demand

California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

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