Livestock

Today, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit announced further support for Saskatchewan producers through enhancement of the Wildlife Damage Prevention Program. “We continue to respond to the needs of our producers,” Marit said. “Prevention measures play an important role to limit further damage. We are implementing changes to our existing prevention program to mitigate impact of […]

Producers in southwestern and west-central Saskatchewan who lost stacked forage to wildlife feeding last winter may see a bump up in their compensation. The Saskatchewan and federal governments have announced a “supplemental freight adjustment” to their wildlife damage compensation program, administered by Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation. SCIC has “reassessed and finalized” the 2022-23 program’s values for forage […]

Four Saskatchewan students have been awarded the Agriculture Student Scholarship to pursue post-secondary education in agriculture. Caitlyn Spratt from Melfort was awarded $4,000, for her essay on Saskatchewan’s sustainability efforts, which included implementing practices like zero till and GPS technology, and addressing the environmental benefits of cattle grazing on native rangelands. “I couldn’t believe it, […]

Teaching the next generation about agriculture is the purpose of the Swift Current Ag & Ex’s Discover the Farm: A Farm Facts Experience Show, held in late-April. The organization says on its website one of the goals is to “encourage youth involvement in agriculture, as well as expand their knowledge of food production, farm safety, […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Alberta yesterday, as raging wildfires prompted mass evacuations, where meteorologists expect virtually no rain for 10 days or so. The widespread blazes have marked an intense start to wildfire season in Alberta, forcing more than 30,000 people out of their homes at one point and shuttering at least 319,000 barrels of oil […]

Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were mostly higher—but total sales were lower last week, according to statistics released by Canfax. 7,445 head were sold —-down about 5,000 from the previous week . . . but three thousand more than the same week one year ago.Four of the six steer weight categories had higher bids . . […]

Poultry farms in Quebec are grappling with higher-than-expected outbreaks of avian flu as 20 locations in the province are considered actively infected. Alberta had the next highest number of infected sites with 11, followed by British Columbia with eight.  More than 7.6-million birds in Canada have either died or been euthanized due to the flu […]

Alberta’s Agriculture Minister is warning the province’s farming and ranching community that livestock rescue may not be possible as rising temperatures in the coming days are expected to spread already-devastating wildfires.  Nate Horner says anyone with concerns about animals should contact municipal officials first. Mounting frustration over the province’s response to the wildfire situation has […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces. That rejects an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The measure, approved by voters as a 2018 ballot initiative called Proposition 12, bars sales […]

Quebec’s agriculture department says it has seized 38 cattle from the central Quebec farm that was home to a group of fugitive cows that escaped last summer and went on the run for months. A spokesman for the agriculture department, says the cattle were seized after a recent inspection found the safety and well-being of some of […]