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Editor's Note 
 
Here in Southern Ontario, we have entered what is known as the fool's spring. Nevertheless, with the distant smell of spreading, it's a good reminder to check local runoff risk depending on these rapidly changing conditions.
- Bree Rody, editor
 
News 
 

Health watch: Manure source delays and opportunities related to HPAI

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks may result in a delay in the ability to receive manure and other products from affected barns.


Spring spreading: Assessing runoff risk

A web-based tool from Wisconsin helps producers and handlers assess runoff as far as three days into the future based on conditions and forecasts.


Health watch: USDA launches biosecurity steps for poultry producers, adds details on H7N9 detection

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced The programs are part of plans to prevent the introduction and spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza and dovetail with up to $1 billion in emergency funding announced last month.


The biweekly brief: 4/2

Making sense of the USDA's latest acreage report, Canadian fruit and vegetable growers quantify tariff impacts and more.


From the Editor: Trust in manure

Ag has never been a business of guarantees – from climate to trade.


 
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Better together

Cover crops are good. Manure is good. At times, however, cover cropping as a practice has been presented as a sort of alternative to manure; some even refer to cover crops as “green manure” because of the nutrient benefits to soil. But it doesn’t have to be either-or. In fact, combine the two and you get something that is more than the sum of its parts, experts from both sides of the border say. So what are the best combinations for benefitting hungry crops? » Read More...
 
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ICYMI: Cleaning up paradise

It's an understatement to say Hawai'i is unique in terms of its energy. Isolated from the mainland, the island could find a possible solution in livestock manure. The research project, made possible through a six-figure grant, could play a key role in helping Hawai'i meet its net-zero energy goals by 2045. But finding manure in abundant supply – in a place where a biogas plant also makes sense – is a tough call. » Read More...
 
 
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