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An Upstate New York #farmer is reeling from the increased cost of business amid President Donald Trump’s trade war with multiple countries.

Nicholas Gilbert, who tends 1,400 cows at his dairy farm in Potsdam, close to the Canada border, told The Atlantic that a recent order of #livestock feed cost him $2,200 extra due to tariffs. The feed came from Ontario, and he mistakenly believed his supplier at the Canadian mill would cover the difference.

#TheMadKing #tariffs 🐮

syracuse.com/state/2025/04/ups

syracuse · Upstate NY farmer shocked by Trump tariffs, mistakenly thought Canada would payBy Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.com

Hungary confirms its fifth foot-and-mouth virus outbreak.

Hungary on Thursday confirmed a fifth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at a cattle farm in Rábapordány, near the Slovak border, escalating concerns over the spread of the highly contagious livestock virus first detected in the country last month.

mediafaro.org/article/20250418

Politico.eu · Hungary confirms its fifth foot-and-mouth virus outbreak.By Bartosz Brzeziński

Seven wedge-tailed eagles have been found shot on a property in southern New South Wales.

"Six of the birds were found dead on the property at Eurongilly, about 60 kilometres from Wagga Wagga, while a seventh was injured but had to be euthanased.Wedge-tailed eagles are a protected species in New South Wales and mainland Australia under the Birds and Animals Protection Act".
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abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/sev
#birds #crime #Biodiversity #NSW #farmers #mindsets #livestock #harm #BirdsOfFediverse

ABC News · Property owner finds wedge-tailed eagles shot near Wagga WaggaBy Jess Scully

Austria closes off 24 border crossings with Hungary and Slovakia after foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.

Slovakia declared an emergency on Tuesday after the disease was found on three farms.

Hungary had the first outbreak of the highly infectious disease in 50 years on Wednesday, leading the country to deploy soldiers and launch disinfection measures to contain it in an area bordering Slovakia and Austria.

mediafaro.org/article/20250406

We are building #Open global consistent time-series data on #livestock dynamics (cattle, goats, sheep and horses) at 1-km annual for 2000-2022+ with uncertainty (prediction intervals). We used the correlation between census data (+50k census polygons) and large stack of environmental covariates to downscale sub-national livestock inventories (preprint at: doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-62019). The first outputs are now available for testing: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1493363. All code at: github.com/wri/global-pasture-