Reuters – Archer-Daniels-Midland said its division is expanding a recall to include 17 additional lots of chicken, swine and rabbit feed products due to elevated levels of magnesium, sodium, calcium and/or phosphorus that may harm the animals. ADM Animal Nutrition in late March had recalled select Pen Pals chicken feed, MoorMan’s ShowTec swine feed, AMPT […] Read more
Beef cattle
Canfax report
This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattle Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca. New price high Closing last week on either side of $250 per hundredweight, western Canadian fed prices […] Read more
Another $1 billion to refinance status quo won’t stop ag pandemics
When word came out of Texas on April 1 that avian flu had made another unwelcome hop — this one from a dairy cow to a human — the news seemed like an April Fool’s joke. It wasn’t. In fact, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI or bird flu), the quick-killing disease that has led to […] Read more
Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us
People and animals are hosts to innumerable microbes that can jump to another species through close contact
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from chimpanzees. And many experts believe the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic flowed from bats. But, as a new study shows, this exchange has […] Read more
Science versus emotion in horse export battle
A federal private member’s bill that aims to ban the air export of live horses for slaughter has some base ingredients for political success. The bill, C-355, was introduced by a Liberal MP, currently the governing party, and is backed by celebrity endorsements. At its centre is an animal that pulls at many Canadian heartstrings. […] Read more
Canada’s Code of Practice for the care and handling of beef cattle to be updated
Beef stakeholders invited to fill out a survey
Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian Cattle Association has initiated an update to the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Beef Cattle. The National Farm Animal Care Council is involved, and the update will be in line with the National Farm Animal Care Council’s Code Development practice. The Code Development process will begin […] Read more
Digester would manage feedlot manure volume
Alberta has been slow to implement biogas digester technology, says feedlot manager who is building a large system
A biogas digester to be built in Alberta is getting a rougher ride from opponents than expected, especially given the digester would reduce odours from the High River feedlot and produce renewable energy from methane gas now released into the environment. Rimrock Feeders is about six kilometres from High River, south of Calgary, where about […] Read more
System allows convenient data entry
When Bill Leask and Mark Olson met at a Lion’s Club meeting about four years ago, Leask was a cow-calf operator with a need and Olson was an information technology expert who could build him a solution. That meeting resulted in the development of Flokk Systems, a durable hardware and software solution useful for people […] Read more
Studies aim to improve heifer selection
Glacier FarmMedia – A research project underway at Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives (MBFI) north of Brandon might help cattle operations across the Prairies take their replacement heifer game plan to the next level. MBFI is one of three western Canadian sites feeding data into a four-year study aimed at evaluating how various novel technologies […] Read more
Canfax report
This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattle Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca. Fed market rallies Alberta’s fed market traded at a premium over Ontario last week for the first […] Read more
