BERRY CROP WRAPS UP . . . WORKSHOP FOR APPLE GROWERS . . . DEADLINE FOR POLLINATOR AWARD THIS FRIDAY . . . STUDY HIGHLIGHTS POTENTIAL TO REDUCE LONG TERM ANTIBIOTIC USAGE FOR SHEEP LAMENESS . . . OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST...

BERRY CROP WRAPS UP
Source: FCC
Despite virus threats and a post-tropical storm that swept through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the strawberry season looks good for growers throughout central and Eastern Canada. The quality of fruit and size of the harvest has been a particularly pleasant surprise in Nova Scotia, where an aphid-borne virus damaged plants and devastated the crop last year. Horticulturalists and growers expected it could take up to five years to recover. (read more)

WORKSHOP FOR APPLE GROWERS
Source: NSFA
There will be a workshop for apple growers on fire blight to take place on Monday, July 28 at 7pm at Rene Penner's, RJ Farm in Grafton, 4631 Route 221. (read more)

DEADLINE FOR POLLINATOR AWARD THIS FRIDAY
Source: Pollinator Partnership
Don't forget that the nomination deadline for the 2014 Canadian Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award is this Friday (July 25). (read more)

STUDY HIGHLIGHTS POTENTIAL TO REDUCE LONG TERM ANTIBIOTIC USAGE FOR SHEEP LAMENESS
Source: The Sheep Site
Sheep farmers could reduce antibiotic treatments for lameness by as much as 92 percent within two years of implementing the practical FAI Farms Five-Point Plan to control the disease within a flock. A Veterinary Record report describes how Oxfordshire-based FAI Farms managed to cut substantially the number of lameness treatments administered to their flock of 1,200 ewes over a four-year period1. (read more)