Originally published on June 28, 2024 on RealAgriculture By Bernard Tobin The beast is back! Ontario’s winter wheat crop has high yield potential but there are also high levels of yield robbing fusarium in fields in some regions of the province. Real Agriculture agronomist Peter ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson says it’s not as bad as 1996
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Originally published on June 26, 2024 on Manitoba Co-operator By John Greig Livestock farmers Jenny Butcher and Wes Kuntz were facing the costly prospect of rebuilding fences. The task was necessary in a pasture they rent, but the rental rate would be higher if the owner had to do the work. The couple found a
Originally published on June 27, 2024 on RealAgriculture By RealAgriculture News Team Agricorp will expedite risk management program payments for Ontario cattle producers for the first and second quarters of 2024. The move comes as the Cargill Guelph beef processing plant remains closed due to a labour union strike that started on May 27, 2024. To
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Originally published on June 21, 2024 on Farmtario By John Greig The 51st Ontario Pork Congress, and the second since a two-year COVID break, returned to Stratford, Ont. June 19 and 20. Hog farm numbers continue to decline, while hogs produced in Ontario grow. Farmers are gradually converting their barns to group sow housing, or are building
Originally published on June 28, 2024 on Canadian Cattlemen By Lisa Guenther We’re still a few weeks away from Ag in Motion, but details are filtering in about events in the Livestock Central part of the show. New this year is the Livestock AgTech Happy Hour, slated daily from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in
Originally published on June 17, 2024 on Farmtario By Stew Slater The emphasis given to production and health characteristics will change in a proposed new Lifetime Performance Index (LPI) for Canadian dairy cows – with new weighting for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing “milkability”. Brian Van Doormaal, chief services officer for Lactanet, the genetic
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Originally published June 24, 2024, on Spudsmart By Staff Agreement focuses on commercialization and distribution of disease-free, high-quality starting material to smallholder farmers in Kenya and India, the companies said. Bayer and Solynta have reached an agreement to collaborate on the commercialization and distribution of true potato seeds in Kenyan and Indian markets. This partnership
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Originally published on June 24, 2024, on Agri-News Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation (AGI) is seeking feedback from primary producers to better understand challenges and barriers to growth in Alberta’s agriculture sector. This sector has faced a variety of changes in the last few years including rising input costs, policy direction uncertainties from the federal government,
Originally published on June 7, 2024 on Canadian Cattlemen By Nathan Phinney Spring 2024 has brought new hope and started off with better weather-related conditions than last year. We are still working with the federal government on the Livestock Tax Deferral Program for producers. Our first step was to have them acknowledge the importance of the
Originally published on June 6, 2024 on Canadian Cattlemen. By Jerry Klassen World Animal Foundation has updated the statistics on May 29, 2023. I’ve received many inquiries over the past couple of months about the price outlook for feeder cattle. Many analysts focus on feeder supplies and use this to determine their view or perspective of
