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Podcast: MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON
Episode: Canadian Bison Producer Struggles With Weather & Massive Milk Production Numbers Expected - Tranel
Description: Canada continues to suffer with wildfires and the lack of rain. Pam Jahnke visits with one of the hosts during their Canadian Rockies Farm Tour, Bob Wilson. Wilson started out as a beef producers but exited that industry when Mad Cow Disease closed many beef markets for Canadian producers. Now he's raising 50 bison on his Morning Star Bison Ranch on Vancouver Island, BC. He says that the water holding capacity of the soil he's using is a limiting factor on how many animals he can raise. As you would expect, everything he needs as a producer costs more just to ge...