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I could almost hear the huge sighs of relief coming from Canadian livestock and meat producers on April 2 when U.S. president Donald Trump announced he was imposing a new 10 per cent tariff on all imports.

Cody McBride has been hired as the new supervisor for the Picture Butte Feeder Co-operative, indicating its suspension from Alberta’s Feeder Associations Loan Guarantee program will soon be lifted.

While organic crop production is taking off, organic livestock is falling behind.

Two organic producers at the recent Advancing Organics conference in Saskatoon said inter-row cultivators are worth the expense, noting considerable benefits with their use.

“Forages actually can be used to combat resistant weeds,” Kim Brown says. “A perennial forage stand will last for several years, but in a spring annual crop rotation, you’re dealing almost exclusively with annual crops most of the time.”