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Saskatchewan government to offer $70-million to help drought-stricken producers
Cattle roam in a field near Pigeon Lake, Alta., on May 1, 2022. Saskatchewan farmers forced to write off their drought-afflicted crops are being asked to consider ways to turn those crops into cattle feed instead. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta conservation program looks to change how ranchers deal with grizzly bear conflicts
A grizzly bear and her cubs are shown in a handout photo. Researchers at the University of Alberta have been studying grizzly bears on private lands in Alberta. New research shows the province’s predator compensation program is helping to offset costs for ranchers when a cow or other livestock is killed by a large carnivore. As a result, it helps conservation efforts on private lands. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-University of Alberta-Spencer Rettler MANDATORY CREDIT
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The climate-friendly cows bred to belch less methane
Research technician Gail Ritchie conducts methane testing on a cow at the Ontario Dairy Research Centre in Elora, Ontario, Canada, February 24, 2017. Efficient Dairy Genome Project/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE
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B.C. looks to U.S. for hay, livestock feed as drought limits supply
This July 24, 2023, handout image released by the British Columbia Wildfire Service, shows an aerial view of the Horsethief Creek wildfire, approximately 10kms (6.2 miles) west of Invermere, British Columbia, Canada. The wildfires, the largest ever recorded in Canada, have raged for two months, darkening Canadian and US skies with smoke and haze. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reports about 1,090 active fires blaze throughout Canada, more than 670 of which are considered "out of control." (Photo by Handout / BC Wildfire Service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BC Wildfire Service / Handout" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/BC Wildfire Service/AFP via Getty Images)
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Saskatchewan crop farmers asked to help their ranching neighbours as drought continues
Cattle roam in a field near Pigeon Lake, Alta., on May 1, 2022. Saskatchewan farmers forced to write off their drought-afflicted crops are being asked to consider ways to turn those crops into cattle feed instead. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta’s iconic cattle ranches face critical moment as two-year drought continues
Rachel Herbert moves cattle on her family-run ranch near Nanton, Alberta on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Rachel’s great-grandfather started the family ranch near Longview in 1882 and the family has been farming on this property since 1903. The cows are being moved as the field which normally has enough water for the cows through the season will be completely dry due to drought within a few days. (Photo by {photog/Globe and Mail)
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Recent rain may not be enough to halt shrinking of Canada’s cattle herd
Cattle graze at sunset near Cochrane, Alta., Thursday, June 8, 2023. Anxious Alberta ranchers praying for rain got their wish this week, but it may not be enough to stop the ongoing decline in Canadian cattle production. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Nature Conservancy of Canada releases action plan to protect iconic Prairie grasslands
Grasslands are shown in a Nature Conservancy of Canada handout photo. The Nature Conservancy of Canada has announced a plan to protect Prairie grasslands, considered one of the most endangered and least protected ecosystems in the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Nature Conservancy of Canada **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Western Canada: Alberta on its way to record its worst fire season ever
The Edson Forest Area wildfire is shown in a Thursday, May 11, 2023 handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Twitter-Alberta Wildfire **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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What happens to livestock when a rancher is ordered to evacuate due to fire?
Cows belonging to BJ Fuchs, a farmer who has lost some land and had to move his cattle due to the wildifires, are seen on their new farm in Shining Bank, Alberta, Canada, on May 11, 2023. Many ranchers stayed behind to care for livestock as neighbours fled wildfires that ravaged Canada's Alberta province this week, others tearfully telling AFP all they could do was open corral gates and hope their abandoned cows found their own way to safety. (Photo by Anne-Sophie THILL / AFP) (Photo by ANNE-SOPHIE THILL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Wildfires in northeastern B.C. expected to worsen due to strong winds
A helicopter carrying a water bucket flies past the Lytton Creek wildfire burning in the mountains near Lytton, B.C., on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Two out-of-control wildfires in northeastern British Columbia that have already forced some residents to evacuate their homes are expected to grow bigger in the next few days. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Prairie farmers hope for ‘normal’ season after volatile couple of years
A farmer harvests her hay on a farm near Cremona, Alta., Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. Livestock producers in Saskatchewan facing hot, dry conditions this growing season and a feed shortage have another problem to contend with -- hay fraud. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Wild horse slaughter in B.C. saddens, divides local community
A biologist and wild horse researcher is calling for stronger federal and provincial protections for the animals after 17 carcasses were found in rural British Columbia. Wild horse mares walk along an oil and gas roadway on crown land near Sundre, Alta., Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Extreme drought makes cattle farmers thin herds, could cause future supply problems
Cattle roam in a field near Pigeon Lake, Alta., on May 1, 2022. Experts say an uptick in extreme weather, such as drought, is leading beef farmers in the U.S. and Canada to thin their herds in near-record numbers, which could lead to supply problems in the beef industry over the longer term. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Farmers union hopes to attract runaway cattle that have been on the run in Quebec town
Cows on a dairy farm, in Saint-Henri-de-Taillon, Que., Tuesday, September 25, 2018. A herd of runaway cattle that has evaded capture for months has been wreaking havoc in farmers' fields near a small Quebec town. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Droughts, war in Ukraine push global grain stocks toward worrying decade low
A combine harvest collects spring barley in a field near the village of Washingborough in the Lincolnshire, east of England, on August 11, 2022. - Britain has seen unseasonably warm temperatures forcing the earlier harvest for almost 40 years, a significantly reduced yield is expected as the barley grain is much smaller than in a typical year due to the warm weather. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vancouver Island project aims to nurture next generation of farmers
Stephanie Jacobs, Farmpreneur holds yarrow flowers at the Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture August 2, 2022 Taylor Roades / The Globe and Mail
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Across the Horn of Africa, a devastating drought threatens starvation and famine for millions
Men whose livelihood was decimated by the dry weather collect carcasses of livestock in Kangitulae, Kenya. Goran Tomasevic/The Globe and Mail
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Proposed cattle feedlot threatens popular but environmentally fragile Alberta lake, residents say
Don Davidson, mayor of the summer village of Grandview, at Pigeon Lake, on May 1.
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Western Canada: Federal ban on strychnine prompts fears among ranchers and farmers
Ground squirrels are also a pest to farmers because they destroy pasture and crops, which can amount to tens of thousands in losses. The holes also destroy the surface of fields, which in turn damages machinery.
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Ban on using strychnine to control ground squirrels has Prairie farmers frustrated, nervous
Ground squirrels are also a pest to farmers because they destroy pasture and crops, which can amount to tens of thousands in losses. The holes also destroy the surface of fields, which in turn damages machinery.
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East and Horn of Africa prep for worst drought in decades
Mother Ayan Muhammed sits with her severely-malnourished baby boy Fahir, as he receives life-saving nutritional treatment, at a UNICEF-supported stabilization center at Gode Hospital in the Shabelle Zone of the Somali region of Ethiopia Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Agricultural workers in the east and Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in forty years, as authorities warn that higher temperatures and less than normal rainfall were recorded by weather agencies in March and April this year. (Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF via AP)
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Cattle helping to manage B.C. wildfire risk with targeted grazing
Cattle graze, as shown in this 2020 handout image, near Cranbrook as part of a program led by the B.C. Cattlemen's Association to reduce the wildfire risk near communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Columbia Basin Trust-Tyler Zhao *MANDATORY CREDIT *
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Maasai people say Tanzania is waging a campaign to drive them from their ancestral lands
For the Masais, cows are a means of accumulating wealth that can be traded or consumed. Photo taken on March 16, 2022 at Endulen village, inside the Ngorongoro conservation area in Tanzania. Photo credit to Robert Bociaga
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Cattle ranchers in B.C., Alberta experience hay shortage as flooding is replaced by drought
Wayne MacDonald, who owns the Bar FX Ranch with his wife Rhonda, a cattle and hay farm northwest of Merritt watched “a lifetime of work wash down the river and disappear,” when the Nicola River spilled its banks on Nov. 15. This came just three months after they lost 20 per cent of their herd — and all of their rangeland — to the Lytton Creek Wildfire.
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Aid package for flooded B.C. farms announced, as farmers face ‘desperate’ choices
A man uses a digger next to a flooded farm in Abbotsford, B.C., Monday, November 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Last year’s drought and this winter’s supply-chain snags create feed-shortage crisis for Western cattle producers
Cows and their calves graze in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., on June 26, 2019. A national farm organization is asking the federal government to pitch in with efforts to move hay from the East Coast to struggling farmers and ranchers in Western Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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South Korea lifts temporary suspension of Canadian beef
Cows and their calves graze in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., on June 26, 2019. A national farm organization is asking the federal government to pitch in with efforts to move hay from the East Coast to struggling farmers and ranchers in Western Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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B.C. farmers ‘white-knuckling’ their way through extreme cold after floods, heat dome
A house sits on high ground surrounded by flooded farmland in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Premier John Horgan acknowledged an "exceptionally challenging" year in a statement on New Year's Eve. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Canada reports atypical case of mad cow disease, OIE says
Cows and their calves graze in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., on June 26, 2019. A national farm organization is asking the federal government to pitch in with efforts to move hay from the East Coast to struggling farmers and ranchers in Western Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta reports rare case of atypical mad cow disease, says no risk to human health
A young bull grazes in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Alberta Agriculture Minister Nate Horner says an older animal has tested positive for atypical mad cow disease in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau moved to tears by B.C.’s flood devastation
Dairy cows are reflected in flood waters as they keep dry in their barn near Agassiz, B.C., Wednesday, November 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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B.C. races to get vets to flooded farms to avoid agricultural disaster
A boat travels across flooded farmland in Abbotsford, B.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.
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Devastating flooding in B.C.’s agricultural heartland has farmers scrambling
Farmers and community members help rescue stranded cattle after rainstorms caused flooding and landslides in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jesse Winter
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Prairie livestock producers facing shortage of feed, water as winter sets in
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Drought in northern Kenya pushes millions toward hunger
Men cary food donation given as a relief due to an ongoing drought, in the town of Oldonyiro, Isiolo county, Kenya, October 8, 2021. Picture taken October 8, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner REFILE - CORRECTING INFORMATION