Maritime AgCast

Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Dr. Gwyneth Jones, Dr. Ted Semple, Maritime Genetics, and Holly Hines, Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, about the prevention, management and treatment of parasites within sheep.

Additional Resources:

· Handbook for the Control of Internal Parasites of Sheep and Goats (University of Guelph)

· Using Fecal Egg Counts for Parasite Management – Holly Hines

· Student Microscope – Amazon Canada

· Sheep Producers Association of Nova Scotia – Parasite Control

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Shelly MacDonald, Perennia, and Wayne Oulton, Oulton’s Meats and Martock Glen Farm, about the regulatory components of abattoirs.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Heather McLean, Perennia, about raising weaned pigs - through growing and finishing, focusing on housing, feeding and care.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Dr. Wilma Schenkels, Chief Veterinary Officer, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, and Jonathan Wort, Perennia, about disease management within sheep.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Amy Higgins, Maritime Beef Council, and Dean Manning, Nova Scotia Cow-Calf Producer, about the benefits of being VBP+ certified. 

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with fellow ACMA co-worker, Kara Saville, Program Delivery Manager, about the Advance Payments Program (APP).

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Dr. Wilma Schenkels, Chief Veterinary Officer, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, and Jonathan Wort, Perennia, about disease management within beef cattle.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Amy Higgins, Maritime Beef Council, Jasper Munro, AgSights and Jonathan Wort, Perennia, about the benefits of performing live beef carcass ultrasound on cattle within your breeding herd.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with repeat guest Jonathan Wort, Perennia, about techniques to potentially improve lamb survival, focusing on the process of reversing hypothermia in lambs.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association (ACMA), chats with Amy Higgins, Maritime Beef Council, Jasper Munro, AgSights and Jonathan Wort, Perennia, about what buyers should be looking for when selecting a bull.

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