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Farm cash receipts rise in first half of 2025 on livestock gains

Crop receipts roughly level, direct payments fall on reduced crop insurance

Reading Time: 2 minutes Farm cash receipts in the first half of the year were up 3.3 per cent over the same period last year buoyed by livestock receipts. Overall receipts between January and June totalled $49.6 billion, up $1.6 billion from the same period last year, Statistics Canada reported.









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U.S. cattle ranchers criticize government for delayed reporting of human screwworm case

Human screwworm case was Maryland resident who recovered, state health department says

Reading Time: 2 minutes The patient with the first human infestation of travel-associated New World screwworm in the United States has recovered from the flesh-eating parasite, and there was no sign of transmission to other people or animals, the Maryland Department of Health said on Monday. Ranchers criticized a lack of transparency about the case.




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U.S. confirms nation’s first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak

USDA criticized by cattle producers for failing to take timely measures to prevent screwworm from entering the U.S.

Reading Time: 5 minutes The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected country.