Smart deworming starts with individualized fecal egg counts

Smart deworming starts with individualized fecal egg counts

Ontario Sheep Farmers’ hands-on workshop equips producers with fecal egg count skills to manage resistance, reduce costs, and improve flock health

Ontario Sheep Farmers’ hands-on workshop equips producers with fecal egg count skills to manage sheep parasite load, minimize potential resistance, reduce costs, and improve flock health

$10 million gift funds new animal education centre at Lakehead University

$10 million gift funds new animal education centre at Lakehead University

Facility’s Anishinaabemowin name, Gakina Awesiinyag, “All Animals (Place For),” honours Indigenous lands

Lakehead University’s Collaborative Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (CDVM) program receives $10 million investment. The new animal education facility will be named Gakina Awesiinyag, from the Anishinaabemowin language, which translates to “All Animals (Place For).”

Manitoba spent a lot of effort in past decades to keep bovine tuberculosis out of the province’s cattle. In June 2025, the disease made a return in a Manitoba dairy. (Dairy cattle photographed above are unrelated to the recent bovine tuberculosis finding) Photo: File

Bovine tuberculosis found in Manitoba

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis, the province’s first bovine TB case in years

A dairy farm in south-central Manitoba has been declared infected with bovine tuberculosis after samples from a cow tested positive for the bacterial disease. It's the province's first bovine TB case in years.






The end of a parasite control era

The end of a parasite control era

Treating internal parasites, as well as external pests like lice, is a different game now for beef farmers; the age of the one-stop parasite treatment is slipping

Treating internal parasites, as well as external pests like lice, is a different game now for beef farmers; the age of the one-stop parasite treatment is slipping


Is supply management shielding Canada’s poultry and egg farmers from bird flu?

Is supply management shielding Canada’s poultry and egg farmers from bird flu?

Supply managment experts say Canadian system encourages smaller farms, and that helps limit spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza; U.S. industry disagrees

The U.S. and Canada are both grappling with a multi-year bird flu outbreak in poultry, but the sheer numbers of U.S. birds lost, the spread of the virus in U.S. dairy cattle and dozens of human cases in the country have raised considerable public and agricultural alarm.

Enhanced calving biosecurity pays off

Enhanced calving biosecurity pays off

Creating a plan to prevent the spread of disease is crucial when cows and calves are more vulnerable to infection

Biosecurity is always of the utmost importance on beef operations. That importance is amplified at calving time due to two groups of animals being more susceptible to infectious diseases: new calves and their dams.