Insights and Stories on Sheep/Goats

Manitoba trials address livestock predation in farmyards

Oct. 25, 2024 at 9:38 am CDT

Manitoba’s Livestock Predation Prevention pilot continued its 2020-23 assessment of various predation risk mitigation practices focused on cattle and sheep populations in and around farmyards. More than 100 total trials were completed on 48 farms during the three-year project with approximately 75 per cent of the costs covered by the project. Predator-resistant penning […]

Alberta lifts feeder loan guarantee limit

Jul. 11, 2023 at 9:28 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

CFIA seeks feedback on traceability, animal ID amendments

Mar. 23, 2023 at 10:48 am CDT

By Manitoba Co-operator staff

Préval closes deal for Alberta lamb processor, feedlot

Jan. 30, 2023 at 12:56 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. sheep herders’ suit alleges cartel-like wage suppression

Jun. 2, 2022 at 7:56 pm CDT

By Leah Douglas

Maedi Visna – the hidden disease

May. 13, 2022 at 10:01 am CDT

The Sheep Farmers of Ontario (OSF) is encouraging sheep producers to consider taking steps to mitigate a silent, hidden illness that may be having a greater impact on their bottom line than they realize. Maedi Visna (MV), also known as ovine progressive pneumonia, is a chronic viral illness that is […]

By Kristy Nudds

U.S. to lift BSE-related rules off sheep, goat imports

Dec. 9, 2021 at 3:39 am CST

U.S. restrictions that have hindered that country’s imports of live Canadian sheep and goats, going back to the start of the BSE crisis in 2003, are set to be scrapped and replaced with rules applying specifically to scrapie. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) […]

By Dave Bedard

Britain, New Zealand strike free trade deal

Oct. 22, 2021 at 8:15 pm CDT

London/Wellington | Reuters — Britain and New Zealand have reached agreement in principle on a free trade deal designed to reduce tariffs, improve services trade, and take London one step closer to membership in a broader trans-Pacific trade agreement. Prime ministers Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern sealed the deal in […]

By Reuters

Anthrax kills southeastern Saskatchewan sheep

Jul. 9, 2021 at 7:48 pm CDT

Dramatic shifts in soil moisture are again bringing anthrax spores to the surface on the Prairies, this time in a southeastern Saskatchewan sheep pasture. Lab results on Wednesday confirmed anthrax as the cause of death of one animal in a flock of sheep in the R.M. of South Qu’Appelle, about […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario names new ag minister in shuffle

Jun. 18, 2021 at 7:20 pm CDT

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has drawn another aggie from his existing cabinet to replace Ernie Hardeman as his agriculture minister. Ford on Friday announced a major cabinet shuffle, dropping Hardeman, the long-time MPP for Oxford, from the cabinet table and naming Lisa Thompson as minister for agriculture, food and rural […]

By Dave Bedard

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Insights and Stories on Sheep/Goats

Manitoba trials address livestock predation in farmyards

Alberta lifts feeder loan guarantee limit

CFIA seeks feedback on traceability, animal ID amendments

Préval closes deal for Alberta lamb processor, feedlot

U.S. sheep herders’ suit alleges cartel-like wage suppression

Maedi Visna – the hidden disease

U.S. to lift BSE-related rules off sheep, goat imports

Britain, New Zealand strike free trade deal

Anthrax kills southeastern Saskatchewan sheep

Ontario names new ag minister in shuffle

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