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Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))
Beef Cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB case turns up in southern B.C.

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal food safety officials are now looking into the life story of a slaughtered British Columbia beef cow confirmed with bovine tuberculosis. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced it has launched an investigation after a mature beef cow was confirmed Nov. 9 with bovine TB. The case comes a few months after the […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Trucker shortage troublesome for Prairie cattle industry

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Reading Time: 4 minutes CNS Canada — As large volumes of cattle make their way to western Canadian auction marts this fall, buyers are having problems finding truckers to haul them. Those problems may get worse in the future, as federal regulations for cattle hauling could possibly change. “I would say it’s worse this year than other years so […] Read more
Barley south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 3, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)
Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Shortages expected for Prairie barley

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Sales have slowed for feed grain buyers in Western Canada, as concerns continue to mount about feed shortages. “The confidence from the farmer is not (there anymore). He just wants to see some crop come into his bin. So we’ve definitely slowed in our buying,” said Brandon Motz, sales manager at CorNine […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Early-week cash prices buoy CME live cattle

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed higher on Wednesday, lifted by initial prices for market-ready, or cash, cattle and short-covering after recent market losses, traders said. Thinly traded June futures, which will expire on Friday, led advances. Some investors bought that contract and simultaneously sold deferred months in a trading strategy […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs bounce back on bargain buying

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures finished higher on Tuesday after short-covering and bargain buying reversed recent market losses amid trade fears, analysts said. Hog farmers in the U.S. may face another wave of higher tariffs by China, which placed stiff retaliatory duties on U.S. pork imports in early April. CME hogs […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Optimism takes pressure off Prairie grains

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Following recent rains across Western Canada, producers have opened their bins and are selling grain again for feed, taking some pressure off of the market. “It’s some relief from the rain that’s happened across the Prairies in the last two weeks. It’s allowing producers to comfortably sell the rest of their old-crop […] Read more
On the Noble farm in the Peace district, parents Bob and Nora with siblings Cara, Jolene and Lee. The Nobles say brothers and sisters have a winning potential for open communication.
Beef Cattle, Guide Business

Honest to goodness

More brothers and sisters: For the Noble family, success means learning how to change open communication from a threat into a strength

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Brothers and sisters are working together on more farms all the time. More and more too, there are multiple siblings on these farms, not just one of each. To outsiders, it can seem like so many more chances for family to get in the way, and so many chances for old rivalries to flare up. […] Read more
An adult Thelazia gulosa removed from the eye of a human and shown here on a person’s finger. (CDC.gov)
Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Eye worm, known only in cattle, found in U.S. woman’s eye

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Reading Time: 2 minutes New York | Reuters — An Oregon woman has become the first person worldwide known to have had an eye infestation by a tiny worm species previously seen only in cattle that is spread by flies that feed on eyeball lubrication, U.S. government researchers said on Monday. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists […] Read more
Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))
Beef Cattle, Livestock

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The mystery of how six Prairie cattle caught a Mexican strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB) is now expected to remain a mystery indefinitely. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced quarantines have been lifted from all Prairie cattle operations tested during its probe of a bovine TB outbreak beginning in the fall of 2016. […] Read more

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