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Jacquelyn Prestegaard-Wilson is taking her knowledge as a ruminant nutritionist and improving the understanding of the role nutrition plays in establishing sustainable livestock systems.
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Animal activists and the livestock producers sometimes feel like they are in binary opposition, particularly when it comes to the environment. Will we ever find a balance?
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Held live on Nov. 7 at 12 p.m. ET, the IWCA Summit will include the same great speakers, panels and mentorship sessions – at no cost, and from the comfort of your home or office.
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The Veterinary Incentive Program will encourage newly licensed veterinarians to practice in northern and underserviced communities by providing grants of up to $50,000 over five years to veterinarians who provide care to livestock and poultry in these communities.
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To reach more people in Canada’s ag industry, the Influential Women in Canadian Agriculture (IWCA) Summit will now take place virtually. Held live on Nov. 7 at 12 p.m. ET, the IWCA Summit will speakers, panels and mentorship sessions – at no cost, and from the comfort of your home or office. Register today to join our six honourees and our keynote, Farm Management Canada’s Andrea Gal, on Nov. 7
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Canada’s beef cattle sector badly needs an injection of multiple profitable years to put the brakes on an apparent downward spiral. The number of cows on cow-calf operations are in decline, and so too are the amount of beef farms. For July 1, 2023, Statistics Canada reported the number of head on beef operations fell to 10.302 million, down 1.6 per cent from the same time last year. The number of beef cows on cow-calf operations declined 1.8 per cent year-on-year to 3.112 million head. Meanwhile, the most recent Ag Census revealed the number of farms reporting beef cattle in 2021 at 54,517, a marginal 1.3 per cent increase from 2016, and a rare uptick during a decades’ long nosedive. In 2011, over 61,000 farms reported beef cattle. A decade before that? Nearly 91,000, which was a significant drop from the 103,675 farms reported in the previous census of 1996. How are farmers coping?
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