Livestock
Reading Time: < 1 minute Two web-based livestock marketing services in Alberta have announced plans to merge operations into a single full-service online location. Direct Livestock Marketing Services, owned by Nilsson Bros. and based in Edmonton, announced a merger June 9 with Western Livestock Exchange of Rochester. “With this merger, DLMS will now offer full purebred sale services through the […] Read more
Online cattle marketers merge
XL Foods Says Lakeside Acquisition Going Smoothly
Reading Time: 4 minutes We were lucky to have gotten into the deal before the economic crisis began. XL Foods bought the Lakeside beef packing plant from Tyson Foods last spring. To find out how the transition has been going, Alberta Farmer put some questionns to Brian and Lee Nilsson, the owners of XL Foods. Alberta Farmer In the […] Read more
Some Great New Cattle Producer Ideas
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have written on this subject before but these are new simple yet effective ideas I have noticed in my practice area in the last while. They are all practical and cost little or no money. They may minimize time or labour, keep you safer or allow for proper handling of biologicals. Many vaccines are […] Read more
Johne’s — A Bovine Disease Nightmare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Steve Hendrick is passionate about Johne’s disease in beef cattle. I have had the privilege in knowing this young scientist since the early stages of his career and what he has to say is important. It comes as no surprise that his research into Johne’s disease, based out of the Western College of Veterinary […] Read more
When Is The Best Time To Breed Sows?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. A correctly timed breeding is the cornerstone of productivity in the swine herd. The timing of natural service or insemination has a significant effect on farrowing rate and litter size. Service timing regimes are determined by a […] Read more
Ont. to tighten rules on livestock health response
Proposed legislation in Ontario would boost and clarify the province’s powers to act in a livestock health crisis, the provincial government said Thursday. The province said it’s now in the consulting stage on its proposed farm animal health initiatives, meant to “help prevent, or minimize the impact of, animal health emergencies.” And if introduced and […] Read more
Committee’s listeria report urges public probe
Federal Liberal and NDP politicians say the recommendations of a Parliamentary food safety subcommittee examining last summer’s listeriosis outbreak show the need for a full public inquiry. The report, released Thursday, “recommends what Liberals have been saying for months: we need a public inquiry that will examine all of the facts around this public health […] Read more
Man. cheese fans can fly international, buy local
Setting up its first store beyond its southeastern Manitoba factory, Bothwell Cheese has opted to cater to a significant chunk of its factory store’s clientele. The company, which makes cheese at New Bothwell, Man., about 20 km northwest of Steinbach, held a media event June 10 for its new store in Winnipeg’s James A. Richardson […] Read more
Sask. opens wildlife lands to emergency grazing
Saskatchewan ranchers dealing with drought being offered provincial wildlife land to graze their livestock as a temporary measure. About 100,000 acres of Fish and Wildlife Development Fund lands will be made available to drought-affected producers via applications on a first-come, first-served basis starting Monday (June 22), the province said in a release Friday. Grazing on […] Read more
N.S. ag critic named agriculture minister
John MacDonell, the Nova Scotia NDP’s agriculture critic, was sworn in Friday evening as the province’s agriculture minister in Premier Darrell Dexter’s new NDP government. MacDonell, a teacher, farmer and the MLA for the Hants East constituency since 1998, was named Friday to a 12-member cabinet with responsibility for both the agriculture and natural resources […] Read more
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