Livestock

Today, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit announced further support for Saskatchewan producers through enhancement of the Wildlife Damage Prevention Program. "We continue to respond to the needs of our producers," Marit said.

Producers in southwestern and west-central Saskatchewan who lost stacked forage to wildlife feeding last winter may see a bump up in their compensation.

Four Saskatchewan students have been awarded the Agriculture Student Scholarship to pursue post-secondary education in agriculture.

Teaching the next generation about agriculture is the purpose of the Swift Current Ag & Ex's Discover the Farm: A Farm Facts Experience Show, held in late-April.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Alberta yesterday, as raging wildfires prompted mass evacuations, where meteorologists expect virtually no rain for 10 days or so.

Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were mostly higher---but total sales were lower last week, according to statistics released by Canfax. 7,445 head were sold ----down about 5,000 from the previous week . . .

Poultry farms in Quebec are grappling with higher-than-expected outbreaks of avian flu as 20 locations in the province are considered actively infected.

Alberta's Agriculture Minister is warning the province's farming and ranching community that livestock rescue may not be possible as rising temperatures in the coming days are expected to spread already-devastating wildfires.

The U.S. Supreme Court has preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces.

Quebec's agriculture department says it has seized 38 cattle from the central Quebec farm that was home to a group of fugitive cows that escaped last summer and went on the run for months.