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N.S. farm limestone program boosted against rising diesel prices

By Liam O’Connor, GFM Network News June 6, 2022

Farmers in Nova Scotia facing rising prices for diesel fuel will see more funding via the Limestone Trucking Assistance Program (LTAP), which is expected to help offset some of those increased costs. “After touring multiple farms around the province to hear from farmers and meeting this morning with farmer Tim Marsh at the Nova Scotia […] Read more

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Ontario ag minister returns in another Tory majority

Lisa Thompson retains seat in election

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 3, 2022

Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives will head back to the legislature with their incumbent agriculture minister at the caucus table. Lisa Thompson, Premier Doug Ford’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs since June last year, easily held her southwestern riding of Huron-Bruce in Thursday’s provincial election by a spread of 15,594 votes over Liberal challenger […] Read more

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Environment Canada sees cool summer for Manitoba

By MarketsFarm, GFM Network News June 1, 2022

MarketsFarm — Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan could be in for a cooler-than-normal summer, according to the latest long-range outlook from Environment Canada. The latest seasonal forecast from the government agency, released Tuesday, calls for a 40 to 80 per cent chance of below normal temperatures from June through August across all of the agricultural regions […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

Cases reported in two provinces, three states

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 30, 2022

Washington | Reuters –– Food safety regulators in both Canada and the U.S. are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the […] Read more

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

Crops, Reuters

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says

By Dmitry Zhdannikov, GFM Network News May 27, 2022

Davos, Switzerland | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.’s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine’s grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. “The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it […] Read more

File photo of barrels on display in a Nova Scotia vineyard. (Tashka/iStock/Getty Images)

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Wastewater regulation eased for Nova Scotia on-farm processing

By Liam O’Connor, GFM Network News May 26, 2022

Nova Scotia has introduced regulatory changes that allow on-farm processing operations to better manage wastewater on their smaller scale. The changes, which took effect May 11, come at the request of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (NSFA) — which has said that owners of small farm-level processing facilities shouldn’t be treated the same as […] Read more

Workers fill jerrycans with cooking oil at a distribution station in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 20, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

By Dan Burns, Jessica DiNapoli, GFM Network News May 24, 2022

Davos | Reuters — A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum said. In a sign of the escalating squeeze on food supplies and rising prices, a government […] Read more

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World could see 1.5 C of warming in next five years, WMO reports

By Gloria Dickie, GFM Network News May 9, 2022

London | Reuters — The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming of 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday. That does not mean the world would be crossing the long-term warming threshold of 1.5 C (2.7 F), which scientists have set […] Read more

AAFC’s Drought Monitor map at April 30, 2022. (Agriculture.canada.ca)

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Drought gone in Manitoba but worsening in Alberta, AAFC reports

By MarketsFarm, GFM Network News May 9, 2022

MarketsFarm — Record-breaking precipitation in southern Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan helped improve moisture conditions in the region in April, taking much of the area out of the drought classification, according to the latest Drought Monitor report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) for the period ended April 30. Two separate Colorado lows brought significant snow, […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Alberta seeding ahead of five-year average

By MarketsFarm, GFM Network News May 6, 2022

MarketsFarm — While spring planting in Alberta is 12.2 per cent complete overall there’s a disparity between the south and the rest of the province. Also, the pace was 2.6 points above the five-year average, but 5.2 behind last year. As of Tuesday, Alberta Agriculture found seeding in the south was at 36.5 per cent […] Read more

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Other fruit-vegetable

N.S. farm limestone program boosted against rising diesel prices

Ontario ag minister returns in another Tory majority

Environment Canada sees cool summer for Manitoba

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Wastewater regulation eased for Nova Scotia on-farm processing

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

World could see 1.5 C of warming in next five years, WMO reports

Drought gone in Manitoba but worsening in Alberta, AAFC reports

Alberta seeding ahead of five-year average

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