A licensing regime for biofuel makers, new fuel quality standards and mandated biodiesel sales will be pumped into a package of biofuels legislation coming back to the Manitoba legislature, the province announced today. The Biofuels Amendment Act, which sputtered before the assembly shut down for this summer’s provincial election, proposes the licensing system, fuel standards […] Read more
Man. moves to regulate biofuels sector
Alta. harvest continues around showers: AFSC
Harvest was two-thirds complete in Alberta as of Sept. 27, despite cool weather and sporadic rain provincewide, according to the provincial Agriculture Financial Services Agency (AFSC). The harvest stood at 65.2 per cent complete that week, up from 38 per cent on Sept. 13. Yields are projected to continue declining on remaining crops but are […] Read more
Sask. avian flu cull complete
The culling is finished on a Regina Beach, Sask. poultry farm where a highly-pathogenic strain of avian influenza broke out among birds, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said yesterday. With the farm now completely depopulated of birds, next must come the cleaning and disinfection of all barns, vehicles, equipment and tools on the property, CFIA […] Read more
Cost weighs on fertilizer decisions: survey
A fertilizer industry group’s survey found farmers pay close attention to the costs of fertilizer and supplements and base their buying decisions on “perceived benefit and availability.” The Canadian Fertilizer Products Forum survey, conducted in April by Ipsos Reid, found that of the 400 farmers surveyed, about half cited price as the main reason for […] Read more
Prop bottles led to Stella scare: Labatt
A number of Stella Artois bottles filled with concentrated alcohol strictly for display were the cause of a tampering scare in July, the brand’s brewer announced today. Toronto’s Labatt Breweries said its investigation found that the affected bottles were meant for display purposes and were supposed to be mounted inside Plexiglas casings. For display purposes, […] Read more
Ecological pilot targets Missisquoi Bay farmers
A $1.27 million ecological goods and services (EG&S) pilot project to reduce blue-green algae in Missisquoi Bay will fund about 60 farmers in the area to cut down on phosphorus entering the watershed. Missisquoi Bay, south of Montreal on Quebec’s border with Vermont, has become a “laboratory” in recent years for studying phosphorus mobility in […] Read more
Manitoba to regulate organic sector
Legislation to regulate the sale and trade of organic food within Manitoba is back on the table after last summer’s provincial election. The provincial Organic Agricultural Products Act will include many of the standards and procedures as the national organic products regulations introduced in December, said Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk, noting the province was “instrumental” […] Read more
Manitoba combines back in fields
Farmers in Manitoba’s central, southwest and eastern regions were able to push forward with harvest as the weather dried up last week, the province reported Monday in its weekly crop update. Relatively few canola acres, especially in the northwest, remain unharvested, while yields on harvested crop are just under 30 bushels per acre on average. […] Read more
Northeastern Sask. behind curve on harvest
Harvest in Saskatchewan’s northern grain belt remains far behind the rest of the province, leaving the harvest 87 per cent complete provincewide, the agriculture department said yesterday. That’s up from 78 per cent last week and from the five-year average of 79 per cent, but down from 92 per cent at the same time last […] Read more
Alta. to fund barley growers’ intervention
After announcing it would file for intervener status in the federal government’s latest legal battle to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk for barley, Alberta’s provincial government pledged to back another intervention also. The Western Barley Growers Association, based in Airdrie, Alta., will get up to $50,000 from the province toward the cost of […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
