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LivestockUnder Dairy Farmers of Canada's proAction programme, daily exercise for tie-stall cows and social contact for calves from birth become mandatory on 1 April 2027, with more housing rules due in 2029 and 2031.
OpinionIn a Manitoba Co-operator column, veterinarian Roy Lewis argues that with strong cattle returns, producers should invest in calving cameras, better water, handling systems, vaccine coolers, fencing and animal-welfare products.
CropsManitoba Agriculture's Kim Brown says herbicides do not kill weed seed, so late 'revenge spraying' of mature waterhemp wastes money, and warns that late dicamba can miss pre-harvest intervals and limit next year's crops.
LivestockNoble Premium Bison and the National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food have signed a multi-year agreement to bring more Indigenous producers into every stage of Canada's bison trade.
AgrotechThe AIVA network, co-founded by EMILI, WHIN and Farm Credit Canada, runs nine validation projects this year and has 35 farmers with 360,000 acres testing market-ready tools.
OrganicRed River Métis rancher Tyler Lee of Mossy Rock Cattle Company near Amaranth, Manitoba, moved to zero-till and legume-based regenerative practices in 2019; a hay field that once gave six bales produced about 190 last year.
CropsManitoba Agriculture's Kim Brown urges farmers to pull and bag waterhemp before harvest, since one plant averages 250,000 seeds and combines carry them across fields; local populations already resist three herbicide groups.
University of Guelph breeder Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi says an AI model trained on years of dry bean data narrows tens of thousands of possible crosses to a few hundred, and the first variety selected with it should reach growers in about two years.
The Canadian-made DF5, first tested on an Agco header during Brazil's soybean harvest, is meant to cut header losses and feed combines more evenly.
EnvironmentSix producer groups told Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada that its national soil health strategy needs farmer-led research, regional metrics and room for small and unconventional farms.
Market ManagementSome 3.1 million tonnes of wheat left Canada in the first six weeks of the crop year, up 68 per cent, while Prairie harvest rains raise the prospect of far more feed wheat.
LivestockThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency found five new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Manitoba poultry on 21-22 September, the province's first since December.
LivestockHydrological modelling for three Manitoba watersheds projects warming of about 2.5 C by 2050 and nearly 5 C by 2100, drier pastures and falling groundwater for dugouts and livestock water.
