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Dairy eifers raised in an open-front facility.
Calf health, Dairy, Livestock, Nutrition

Watch dairy heifers grow on well-balanced diets

There are numerous different ways to get a quality mix to a farm’s heifers

By Peter Vitti February 18, 2025
I have balanced many dairy heifer replacement diets in the last few months. It’s a pretty easy exercise, once I put it down on a pdf spreadsheet and then email […] Read more

CME December 2023 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME hog, cattle futures decline

Pigs seen bulking up on new-crop corn

By Tom Polansek October 17, 2023
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock markets weakened on Monday, with lean hog futures nearing their lowest price in more than four months. Concerns about lacklustre demand for […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock

Saskatchewan ranchers backed for runoff control

Funding on offer for earth-moving work

By Dave Bedard July 13, 2021
Cow-calf producers in Saskatchewan may be able to get cost-shared funds from the federal/provincial Farm Stewardship Program to build ponds, ditches, dikes or berms to collect or manage runoff. The […] Read more

Flea beetles in canola seedlings. (Canola Council of Canada video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops

Flea beetles a nuisance for canola crop

By Adam Peleshaty June 19, 2021
[UPDATED: June 22, 2021] MarketsFarm — Western Canada’s canola crop has been hit hard by hot, dry weather so far this growing season in the midst of ongoing drought conditions […] Read more

File photo of hogs in transit near Red Deer, Alta. (Stefonlinton/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock, Markets

Alberta hog farmers to get set-aside via AgriRecovery

Producers get funds for feeding held-back market hogs

By Dave Bedard March 6, 2021
An AgriRecovery plan announced Friday is set to pay eligible Alberta farmers 95 cents per day per market-ready hog toward the animals’ upkeep during the shutdown of the province’s biggest […] Read more


Horses that escaped from an enclosure onto a road near an RCMP checkpoint in an evacuated zone at Williams Lake are calmed and walked to safety on July 17. (WilliamsLake.bc.rcmp-grc.gc.ca)
Livestock

AgriRecovery in place for farms in B.C. wildfire zones

By Farmtario Staff September 6, 2017
Farmers and ranchers whose operations were hit or evacuated during British Columbia’s particularly destructive wildfire season can expect up to $20 million in AgriRecovery funds toward repair, rebuilding and livestock […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets

Major Alberta cattle feeder set to shut feedlots

By Rod Nickel September 21, 2016
Reuters — One of Canada’s biggest cattle feeding operations, Western Feedlots, said Wednesday it will close feeding operations after marketing the cattle it currently owns, due to poor market conditions. […] Read more

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