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The Manitoba Wildlife Federation points to this bullet hole in a rural northwestern Manitoba home as an example of the risks to the public from unchecked night hunting. (MWF.mb.ca/Nightwatch)

Manitoba hunters, ranchers seek rural night-hunting ban

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 18, 2016

Manitoba’s hunter and rancher groups are calling on the province to tighten its enforcement against night hunting and ban the activity among all hunters in the province’s populated rural areas. The call Tuesday from the Manitoba Wildlife Federation follows a Sept. 10 near-miss in which a couple near Winnipegosis, about 60 km north of Dauphin, […] Read more

Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)

Livestock, Reuters

Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

By Jimmy Urquhart February 12, 2016

Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Police and federal agents searched a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon for explosives and evidence on Friday, a day after the last holdouts in a protest over federal control of Western land surrendered to end a six-week armed standoff. Federal authorities said the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon […] Read more

Livestock, News Roundup

BIO goes mobile with Go360

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 5, 2016

The folks at BIO (Beef Improvement Opportunities) in Ontario have been busy creating web-based products and services to complement its web-based bioTrack record-keeping system for beef cattle, sheep and goats. Go360|bioTrack unleashes producers from desk duties with a mobile version that works on any smartphone, even in places without Internet or cellphone connection. It was […] Read more

(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)

Livestock

Advance payment program widened, streamlined

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 5, 2016

More types of livestock will be eligible and more types of security will be allowed for Canadian farmers to get federally-backed advance payments starting this year. Amendments to the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (AMPA), made last February as part of the former Conservative government’s omnibus Agricultural Growth Act, have made regulatory changes possible for the […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

By Peter Henderson January 27, 2016

Reuters — U.S. and state officials in Oregon on Wednesday set up checkpoints around Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where an armed group pledged to prolong its standoff with the government a day after one protester was shot and eight others were arrested. Authorities said the new security involves a series of checkpoints along key routes […] Read more

News

LIVE BLOG: Alberta FarmTech 2016

Event begins Tuesday, Jan. 26 and runs to Thursday, Jan. 28

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 26, 2016

Edmonton’s EXPO Centre at Northlands is the place to be for producers and the public during Alberta FarmTech 2016, running from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28. Want up-to-the-minute information on what’s going on at FarmTech? Check out our live blog page here! FarmTech features more than 50 sessions and a world class lineup of speakers providing […] Read more

(L-r) chaperon Sid Livingstone, Halley Adams, Colby Evans, MacArthur Kowalchuk, and Riley Sharp.

Livestock, Purely Purebred

Alberta 4-H Livestock Judging Team places first in beef judging

Purely Purebred: News about you from the January 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Mike Millar January 15, 2016

Congratulations to the Alberta 4-H Livestock Judging Team (photo at top of page) for placing first in beef judging, third in swine and sheep judging, second in reasons and third overall at the NILE competition in Billings, Montana. Two of the four team members who made this year’s team were from purebred farms: Halley Adams, […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

By Jimmy Urquhart, Jonathan Allen January 5, 2016

Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Residents of the Oregon town thrust into the spotlight after self-styled militiamen took over a U.S. wildlife refuge voiced sympathy for the jailed ranchers whose plight inspired the action but were critical of the armed protesters. Saturday’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside the town of Burns, Ore., […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

By Andy Sullivan January 4, 2016

Reuters — Self-styled militia members who seized federal property in rural Oregon in an effort to galvanize opposition to the U.S. government appear to have made a tactical error — potential allies say they picked the wrong battle. As armed anti-government activists occupied a snowy wildlife refuge for a third day to call attention to […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as rangeland dispute flares

Array

By Jimmy Urquhart January 3, 2016

Princeton, Ore. | Reuters — A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the U.S. West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, followed a march in Burns, […] Read more

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Sheep-lambs

Manitoba hunters, ranchers seek rural night-hunting ban

Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

BIO goes mobile with Go360

Advance payment program widened, streamlined

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

LIVE BLOG: Alberta FarmTech 2016

Alberta 4-H Livestock Judging Team places first in beef judging

Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

Protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as rangeland dispute flares

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