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Yara’s fertilizer terminal at Stockton, California. (Sebastian Braum photo, Yara.com)

Yara to buy Agrium fertilizer upgrading plant

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 7, 2015

Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium has a buyer lined up for a U.S. nitrogen upgrading site it’s been looking to sell since April. Oslo-based fertilizer giant Yara said Thursday it’s made a deal to buy Agrium’s West Sacramento Nitrogen Operations plant for US$27 million (C$36 million) and use the facility instead as an import terminal for […] Read more

Livestock

Sask. widens wolf harvest pilot area

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 3, 2015

Last winter’s pilot project to push wolves back from ranches and farms in northeastern Saskatchewan will expand west this winter. Saskatchewan’s environment ministry on Wednesday announced a wolf hunt will run from Dec. 15 this year until March 31, 2016 in wildlife management zones (WMZs) 49 and 53. The wolf hunt pilot program ran from […] Read more

Jean-Claude Poissant, shown here at the opening of Maison ACFA in St-Hyacinthe, is the Liberals’ new parliamentary secretary for agriculture. (ACFAreseaux.qc.ca)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Que. dairyman named parliamentary ag secretary

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 3, 2015

Canada’s agriculture minister will get a Quebec dairyman and grain farmer turned rookie Liberal MP as his new parliamentary secretary. Jean-Claude Poissant, who won the re-formed Montreal-area riding of La Prairie for the Liberals on Oct. 19 by a spread of almost 5,900 votes over Bloc Quebecois contender Christian Picard, was named Wednesday as parliamentary […] Read more

History, Our History

History: Grass conservation and land use

Reprinted from the December 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 3, 2015

History: Grass conservation and land use By J.B. Campbell, Dominion Experimental Station, Swift Current, Sask. ‘As an introduction to this talk on “Grass Conservation and Land Use,” I wish to quote the words of a Texas shepherd. He states: “Grass is what counts. It’s what saves us all – fas as we get saved. Men and towns […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Livestock

Feed was ‘most plausible’ source of BSE in Case 19

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 3, 2015

Canada’s food safety agency is still tracking down the last herdmates of the country’s 19th domestic case of BSE, but will otherwise assume the Alberta cow most likely caught the disease from traces of proteins in its early feed. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Nov. 30 submitted its final report on Case 19 — […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder cattle stabilize near annual lows

By Jerry Klassen December 2, 2015

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices traded $5 lower to $5 higher relative to week-ago levels. The market was quite variable across the Prairies, with eastern markets coming under more pressure comparable to southern Alberta. Feedlot operators and backgrounding farmers that were holding back on purchases earlier in the fall were stepping forward more aggressively this […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Lethbridge feed wheat stays steady, barley moves downward

By Jade Markus December 2, 2015

CNS Canada –– Feed barley prices have come down while wheat holds steady in Lethbridge, Alta., the centre of Western Canada’s livestock feeding sector. The price of feed barley at Lethbridge fell about $10 a tonne throughout November to sit at about $210-$212 per tonne — for three main reasons, according to Jim Beusekom of […] Read more

Forages, Livestock

Take precautions when feeding salvage crops to cattle

By Heather Smith Thomas December 1, 2015

In drought years it’s often hard to locate adequate forage for cattle so producers sometimes turn to alternatives like drought-stressed pulse, oilseed or cereal crops that normally wouldn’t go for feed. These emergency feeds can be a godsend in a dry year, but both Barry Yaremcio, a beef and forage specialist with Alberta Agriculture and […] Read more

Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, Forages, Machinery, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. EPA finalizes 2016 renewables target at 18.1B gallons

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News November 30, 2015

New York | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants energy companies to blend 18.1 billion gallons (68.5 billion litres) of biofuels into the nation’s fuel supply next year, more than in a proposal laid out in May, it said in announcing final rules on renewables use for 2014-16 on Monday. The EPA’s long-awaited […] Read more

General, Machinery

Alta. farm bill applies to paid workers only, minister says

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff November 27, 2015

UPDATED, Nov. 28, 2015 — New legislation applying Alberta’s rules on workplace standards and workers’ compensation to farm workers is meant for farms’ paid employees — not for family members or neighbours helping out on family farms. The province’s labour minister has said as much after stormy early going in the government’s consultations on Bill […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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Yara to buy Agrium fertilizer upgrading plant

Sask. widens wolf harvest pilot area

Que. dairyman named parliamentary ag secretary

History: Grass conservation and land use

Feed was ‘most plausible’ source of BSE in Case 19

Klassen: Feeder cattle stabilize near annual lows

Lethbridge feed wheat stays steady, barley moves downward

Take precautions when feeding salvage crops to cattle

U.S. EPA finalizes 2016 renewables target at 18.1B gallons

Alta. farm bill applies to paid workers only, minister says

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