Insights and Stories on Horses

A cloned newborn horse stands next to its surrogate mother in an enclosure at a horse birthing hospital, in San Antonio de Areco, near Buenos Aires, Argentina July 29, 2025.

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

Sep. 2, 2025 at 10:04 am CDT

Kheiron Biotech, an Argentine company, has bred gene-edited polo ponies and says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding.

Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears East Coast

Sep. 23, 2022 at 2:09 pm CDT

By Ismail Shakil

Health Canada warns people not to take livestock dewormers

Sep. 1, 2021 at 6:12 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Ontario backs ‘horse experience’ businesses for horse upkeep

Jan. 18, 2021 at 6:33 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. transport regulators reject ’emotional support animal’ status

Dec. 2, 2020 at 8:27 pm CST

By David Shepardson

New livestock transport rules include grace period for all sectors

Dec. 20, 2019 at 3:13 pm CST

Enforcement of new federal rules for livestock transport, due to take effect Feb. 20, will focus on handler education and awareness for the first two years — and across all affected livestock species, not just cattle. The now-amended Humane Transportation of Animals regulations are meant to focus on the time […]

By Dave Bedard

Prairie hay shortage on horizon

Jul. 19, 2019 at 5:21 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While rain across the Prairies has eased concerns of an all-out drought, worries of a hay shortage going into winter haven’t ceased. Darren Chapman, a Virden, Man. producer and chair of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA), explained that regrowth following the first cut of hay has […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Livestock, pets among victims in U.S. Midwest flooding

Mar. 19, 2019 at 7:21 pm CDT

Reuters — The floods that have devastated large swaths of Nebraska and Iowa since late last week left house pets homeless, inflicted an unknown toll on livestock and led to several daring water rescues of animals from dogs to horses. Rescuers in the Omaha area, where the Platte, Elkhorn and […]

By Peter Szekely

Equine anemia turns up in some Manitoba horses

Jul. 2, 2017 at 4:41 pm CDT

A viral horse disease that’s more prevalent further west in Canada has returned to Manitoba for the first time in recent memory, as horses from two municipalities have been found to caught the virus in the past four weeks. Equine infectious anemia (EIA) was confirmed in horses from a property […]

By Staff

Insights and Stories on Horses

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears East Coast

Health Canada warns people not to take livestock dewormers

Ontario backs ‘horse experience’ businesses for horse upkeep

U.S. transport regulators reject ’emotional support animal’ status

New livestock transport rules include grace period for all sectors

Prairie hay shortage on horizon

Livestock, pets among victims in U.S. Midwest flooding

Equine anemia turns up in some Manitoba horses

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