. Agri-news. Agriculture. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WARBLE GRUB CONTROL REGULATIONS All Alberta cattle sold in auction markets and terminal yards next spring will be inspected for warble grubs. Those that are found to have grubs will be treated and the cost of treatment charged to the owner. The new Alberta Agricultural Pests Act, passed last spring, declared the warble fly a pest in the whole province. However, three districts were allowed to remain outside the provincial regulations which made warble control treatment mandatory. This means that, at the present time, 94 per cent of Alberta cattle
. Agri-news. Agriculture. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WARBLE GRUB CONTROL REGULATIONS All Alberta cattle sold in auction markets and terminal yards next spring will be inspected for warble grubs. Those that are found to have grubs will be treated and the cost of treatment charged to the owner. The new Alberta Agricultural Pests Act, passed last spring, declared the warble fly a pest in the whole province. However, three districts were allowed to remain outside the provincial regulations which made warble control treatment mandatory. This means that, at the present time, 94 per cent of Alberta cattle are under warble control. Even in the three districts which are exempt, there are a fairly large number of cattle being treated annually. Ken Spiller, Alberta Agriculture's live- stock supervisor, points out that farmers will be much further ahead financially to treat their own cattle than to have them treated at an auction market or terminal yard. Charges for this treatment will be con- siderably higher than the; cost of farm treating. Mr. Spiller reports that inspection results of all cattle sold through Alberta auction markets and terminal yards last spring showed that approximately 95 per cent of the cattle handled by these facilities were free of warble ? Established Warble Control Areas Not In Warble Control Areas hone (403) 427 2127 - (cont'd) - /dlberra AGRICULTURE COMMUNICATIONS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Communications Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Print Media Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Publishing Branch. [Edmonton] : Communications Branch, Alberta Dept. of Agriculture
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