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Rebuild & Recover – Two Producers Share Their Experiences With Fire And Drought
Beef Cattle Research Council | January 6, 2022
For many beef producers across Canada, the past year was challenging because of environmental conditions. Many producers experienced and continue to withstand extreme weather, which is testing their production and profit potentials, but also their mental resolve and financial resilience.
When things aren’t going well, farmers may feel like everything is out of their control. However, thinking strategically, reaching out and building a community of peers and professionals can help producers navigate through tough times and come out stronger in the end.
How satellites are challenging Australia's official greenhouse gas emission figures
Steve Cannane, abc.net.au | December 2, 2021
'Carbon footprint of a medium-sized European country': What satellites found over one part of Australia
Inside a shared workspace for technology start-ups in south-west London, Christian Lelong has a bird's-eye view of some of the dirtiest secrets of Australia's mining industry.
Prime NSW land earmarked for mining returns to local families
Linda Rowely | Beef Central | January 10, 2022
A massive north-western New South Wales portfolio of land once earmarked for a coal mine has been carved up between 12 local farming families and a corporate institution in a deal worth around $120 million.
The prime land is located in the sought-after Liverpool Plains – well-known for its highly productive soils, wide range of well-proven agricultural systems and even distribution of rainfall year-round.
It was offered for sale by China’s Shenhua Watermark Coal after the state government agreed to pay it $100m to surrender its exploration licence and mining lease.
The proposed open cut mine was estimated to have a production life of 30 years generating an estimated 290 million tonnes of coal.
However, the project faced intense opposition from locals fearing it would adversely impact the fertile Liverpool Plains, threatening water resources and the iconic koala population.
Not related to livestock per se – but it is interesting how wild ungulates have become a reservoir of infection for SARS CoV 2 – I assume that domestic animals could do the same, underlining the link between animal and human infections and the importance of one health.
A third of Ohio deer test positive for COVID-19 virus
Jim Wappes | University of Minnesota, CIDRAP | December29, 2021
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
Researchers found SARS-CoV-2 in 36% of white-tailed deer in Ohio, with evidence of deer-to-deer spread, according to a study late last week in Nature.
'Though a study last month found about the same level of COVID-19 infection in Iowa deer and Canada reported SARS-CoV-2 in deer earlier this month, evidence from the new study "leads toward the idea that we might actually have established a new maintenance host outside humans," said Andrew Bowman DVM, PhD, associate professor of veterinary preventive medicine at The Ohio State University and senior author, in an Ohio State news release. . . .
