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Dutch Farmers Protest Climate Mandates That would Cut Livestock by 30 Percent

June 30, 2022
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Dutch farmers are continuing their demonstrations against a government climate policy that officials expect to end many farmers’ livelihoods, with organizers on Telegram planning July 4 protests they say will “flatten” the whole of the Netherlands. The message calls on concerned farmers and citizens to organize their own regional actions with the goal of closing…

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New Generation of Livestock Drugs Linked to Cancer

June 5, 2022
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Many people know about the routine use of antibiotics in livestock production—and object to it. The drugs are profitable to meat producers because they cause animals to gain more weight with less feed and prevent the outbreak of disease in often cramped concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFOS) conditions. In 2017, the Food and Drug Administration began…

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Farmers Sound Warning Amid Sharp Rise in Animal Feed Prices

December 29, 2021
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Amateur farmer Dottie Overland’s pigs get bigger and tastier every day, but her family may never get a chance to eat them. With the cost of farm feed rising to unprecedented levels, buying feed for ten pigs has become prohibitively expensive for Overland, a homeschooling mom who raises animals to save money. “Our intention was…

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Drug, Feed Ingredient Shortages Hit US Livestock Producers

November 19, 2021
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CHICAGO—Michigan dairy farmer Doug Chapin has been unable to buy bottles of veterinary penicillin for his cows for more than a month. In Minnesota, pig farmer Randy Spronk reformulated feed rations due to a shortage of the widely used ingredient lysine, an amino acid that helps livestock grow. Supply-chain disruptions are hitting America’s meat producers…

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Abbotsford, BC, Residents Urged to Flee Low Lying Area as Flood Risk Escalates

November 17, 2021
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VANCOUVER—Officials in Abbotsford, B.C., say residents of the low-lying Sumas Prairie area south of the city face a significant risk to life and must get out immediately. An evacuation order was issued for about 1,000 properties Tuesday as flooding linked to a severe weekend rainstorm pushed up water levels in the area which is home…

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Flooding in B.C. ‘Testing the Resilience’ of Dairy Farmers, Says Association

November 17, 2021
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Farmers in southern British Columbia are coming together to save livestock as parts of the Fraser Valley remain under water from devastating flooding, says a member of the association that represents the province’s dairy farmers. Holger Schwichtenberg, chair of the board for the BC Dairy Association, said he was not yet sure how many farmers…

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Flooding in BC ‘Testing the Resilience’ of Dairy Farmers, Says Association

November 17, 2021
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Farmers in southern British Columbia are coming together to save livestock as parts of the Fraser Valley remain under water from devastating flooding, says a member of the association that represents the province’s dairy farmers. Holger Schwichtenberg, chair of the board for the BC Dairy Association, said he was not yet sure how many farmers…

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COVID-19 Epidemic Ravaging Northeast China, Villages Evacuated, Livestock and Crops Left Behind

January 21, 2021
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China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province has officially reported 448 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Jan. 18 but the public believes that the actual situation is much worse than the official data. Wangkui County is the epicenter of the outbreak in the province. The situation is getting more severe, residents have told The Epoch Times. Local governments are…

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