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Proposed Health Canada regulations would make any pesticides available for aerial application also legal to apply by drone, and while that would remove many barriers for farmers and researchers, industry experts caution that planes and drones are different birds.
Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency opened consultation on the
In our last article, we looked at insolation and the solar constant, and in this article, we are going to look at global net radiation and seasons.
Net global radiation is the balance between incoming shortwave radiation from the sun and outgoing long-wave radiation from the Earth, as measured at the top of the atmosphere.
We have surpluses of radiation in...
The U.S. national live price average for barrows and gilts was $71.70 March 3. It was not available Feb. 24.
U.S. hogs averaged $91.41 on a carcass basis March 3. It was not available Feb. 24.
The U.S. pork cutout was $98.50 per hundredweight March 3, up from $96.95 Feb. 24.
The estimated U.S. weekly slaughter to March 3 was 0.959 million...
This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca.
New re...For the week ending Feb. 28, western Canadian feeder cattle markets were unchanged from seven days earlier.
Calves may have traded $5-$10 per hundredweight higher at some locations.
Feeding margins have improved over the past week, with southern Alberta pen-closeouts now hovering near breakeven.
Ontario feedlot margins are in positive territory b...