Manitoba Cooperator

At a time when harvest pressure should be causing canola prices to tumble, the oilseed stayed rangebound again during the week ended Oct. 6. The November canola contract closed at C$825.80 per tonne on Oct. 6, only C$2.10 higher on the week. During that period, the contract traded from C$806.30 to C$826.60 a tonne, largely between the 20- and 50-day averages and well above the 100-day average.

Over 3,500 cattle moved through the rings at five Manitoba auction markets during the week ending Oct. 6. Prices weren’t yet available at the Co-operator’s press time from sales at Ashern (Sept. 30) and Grunthal (Oct. 6). Volumes were mainly lower, apart from at Ste. Rose, and price ranges didn’t stray very far from the previous week, with some exceptions — especially among lighter-weight feeder cattle. READ MORE: Western feeder market sees mixed demand For the previous week’s table, click here.

A study of online cattle sales has found definitive patterns to help producers to get the best bang for their buck in cow-calf operations. “One thing that should be no surprise to any of you — the weaned calves. That’s your primary output as a cow-calf producer,” said Kathy Larson, an extension economist at the University of Saskatchewan’s department of agricultural and resource economics.

Canada’s vertical farms currently have no pesticides registered for use in their production systems, but that could change under a proposal from Health Canada. The department is considering allowing certain non-conventional and microbial pesticides that are already approved for specific uses in greenhouses to also be used in vertical farms. The products would have to be registered for the same crop and pest. The proposal, Regulatory Proposal PRO2026-03, was published Sept.

Advertissement Keeping Western Canada’s pipelines of wheat and barley varieties moving may mean farmers set up a new plant-breeding agency Some Prairie farmers see their organizations taking a greater role in wheat breeding work as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada steps back from later stages of variety development.

Canada’s dairy genetics led the world for decades, backed by the top-performing system to create trust in the indices that supported that leadership position. Those systems — type classification and milk recording — are being challenged by farmers with different priorities and new technology, which make some of the old ways of proving data obsolete. If dairy farmers don’t participate in data collectively used to prove bulls and create cow indices, then the accuracy of those systems could fall.

Diagnostic approaches continue to evolve in veterinary medicine, and this article will review some of the more novel developments in swine disease surveillance. There are many reasons diagnostic tests are performed. In swine production, we may be trying to assure a population, or a certain stage of production, is free from specific diseases. Health challenges often require diagnostic testing to determine the cause of clinical disease or even establish a timeline of when the infection occurred.

The Canada Revenue Agency requires employers (including farm employers) to set up a payroll account with them and file and issue T4 slips, says Thomas Blonde, a partner with Baker Tilly GWD. This includes instances in which wages are low enough that there aren’t even any payroll deductions payable (e.g., tax, Employment Insurance or Canada Pension Plan).

Advertissement Companies that make spore detectors are using large data sets, disease-specific models and locally calibrated thresholds to turn airborne spore counts into practical management advice Associate Editor, Grainews 32 minutes ago 9 min read Paramoria AgriScience co-founder Byron Puchalski services a Spornik in a flowering canola field in southern Alberta. The wind-driven sampler collects airborne biological material for molecular testing.

Glacier FarmMedia — Dairy producers across Canada are preparing for some more livestock housing requirements to become mandatory in April. The standards will include one-hour exercise periods for all cows housed in tie-stalls — and social contact for all calves from birth. WHY IT MATTERS: Coming into compliance will entail management changes or possibly new construction for some operations.