Manitoba farmers buying fertilizer in their home province this spring paid 33 per cent more on average compared to their counterparts across the border in North Dakota, according to Keystone Agricultural Producers. The Manitoba farmers’ group commissioned a PricewaterhouseCoopers study on Manitoba and North Dakota fertilizer prices, which will form the basis of KAP’s request […] Read more
Manitoba fertilizer prices higher than U.S.: KAP
Maple Leaf deal brings ham jobs: UFCW
A new contract for workers at a Maple Leaf plant in Winnipeg will mean the shifting of 550 jobs to a new ham boning line there, according to the workers’ union. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 working at Maple Leaf’s Lagimodiere Boulevard meat processing plant in the St. Boniface […] Read more
Air out canola to ward off spoilage: CCC
Canola growers who face variable weather during this year’s harvest will want to condition their canola by moving air through the stored crop to prevent spoilage, the Canola Council of Canada recommends. In a release today, council specialist David Vanthuyne said spoilage could result from moisture migration and seed respiration in the bin, unless the […] Read more
Global standards wanted after China blocks pork
A ban imposed by the Chinese government on imports of pork from a number of Canadian and U.S. packers shows the need for international standards for approval of animal health and nutrition products, according to the Canadian Meat Council. Speaking on Farmscape, a pork industry-sponsored news service, CMC executive director Jim Laws said it’s not […] Read more
OAC alumni plan new endowment
The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) Alumni Foundation has launched a $1.25 million endowment campaign to mark the 125th anniversary of the college’s two-year diploma program. OAC currently has about 800 students at four University of Guelph campuses. The campaigners plan to call on over 5,000 OAC diploma grads now living in Canada, and will also […] Read more
Sask. grain cars land modeling deal
The Saskatchewan government’s made-over fleet of hopper rail cars may soon appear in model train displays across North America after the province signed a deal with a B.C. model train company. A subsidiary of Surrey, B.C.-based Pacific Western Rail Systems has bought exclusive rights to make and sell models of the repainted and refurbished cars, […] Read more
Weather slows Alberta harvest
Rainfall last week continued to dampen harvest operations in much of Alberta, although “significant” progress has been made overall, Alberta Agriculture and Food said yesterday in its crop conditions report for the week ending Sept. 13. Harvest remains behind the curve at 38 per cent complete, compared to 45 per cent at this time in […] Read more
Quebec seeks talks with pork sector
Seeking to calm what one major farm leader has called an “explosive” situation, Quebec Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard today named longtime provincial civil servant Guy Coulombe as his representative for talks with stakeholders in the province’s pork industry. Coulombe is to lead the discussions between the industry’s principal players and file a report for Lessard […] Read more
Wet weather slows Man. harvest
Harvest resumed in western and northern areas of Manitoba last weekend after delays caused by cool, wet weather the previous week, the provincial agriculture department reported Monday. Cereal and oilseed harvests were complete or nearly complete in the central region (around Portage la Prairie and points south), east of the Red River and in the […] Read more
Nova Scotia maps wind
Landowners in Nova Scotia can soon go online to assess their property’s potential to host wind turbines. Researchers at l’Universite de Moncton and Nova Scotia Community College have set up a wind atlas for Nova Scotia, illustrating how much wind is available in the province and where to find it. The new atlas is expected […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
