The Serbian chef who helped found the World Testicle Cooking Festival has compiled his hobby into an interactive digital cookbook, the Reuters news service reported Tuesday. Ljubomir Erovic has launched The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls, with a sample version available for previewing and the full version available for £5.99 (about C$11.65) online. The book […] Read more
Editors’ Picks: Testicular cuisine goes online
St. Lawrence strike could hit grain prices: CWB
Grain prices could be pressured if a strike by unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway comes to pass, the Canadian Wheat Board warns. The CWB and “other key stakeholders” in the Prairie grain industry are urging the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. and operations, maintenance and clerical staff, represented by the Canadian Auto Workers […] Read more
CFIA caps melamine in Chinese milk imports
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has set interim standards to limit the amount of melamine in imported foods that contain milk or milk products from China. CFIA announced in a memo to importers Monday that it will require documentation to prove product safety. Any imports of baby food or infant formula from anywhere outside Canada […] Read more
Ontario Pork out as single-desk hog marketer
Ontario Pork has until Dec. 1 to come up with a new structure and governance model to match its new role in hog marketing in Ontario. That role, announced Monday in a decision by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission, will be to “represent, and collect license fees from, producers of all classes of pigs, […] Read more
Rain stalls Man. harvest, Sask. nearly done
Farmers in Saskatchewan are on last year’s pace to bring their 2008 crop in, while Manitoba farmers must now wait out rain that fell on much of their remaining crop on Sunday and Monday. According to Monday’s crop report from Saskatchewan’s ag ministry, farmers have harvested 95 per cent of the 2008 crop, the same […] Read more
Farm Business Communications earns 11 at CFWF
Farm Business Communications came away with 11 national awards Saturday at the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation awards banquet in Courtenay, B.C. The Farm Business Communications division, based in Winnipeg and owned by Vancouver’s Glacier Ventures International, operates this website and is publisher of Country Guide, Grainews, Canadian Cattlemen, the Manitoba Co-operator, Alberta Farmer Express and […] Read more
Rethink yield math: Sask. crop insurance review
Yield trending and yield cushioning are among the changes recommended in a new review of Saskatchewan’s provincial crop insurance program. The province hasn’t yet specified what changes it will make on the basis of the review, prepared for the province by Meyers Norris Penny (MNP). But Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud said in a release Monday […] Read more
UAP launches slow-release N fertilizer
UAP has rolled out a new slow-release nitrogen fertilizer that it says will allow farmers to plan around a “more targeted” foliar N application later in a growing season. The product, called N-Pact, is a patented 26-0-0 Triazone foliar formulation, which “allows better foliar uptake without the leaf burning often associated with other nitrogen fertility […] Read more
Friends of CWB look for quick court date
A farmers’ group hoping to overturn changes to the voters’ list for Canadian Wheat Board director elections wants to have its case heard before the election process moves ahead. Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, represented by Manitoba lawyer Anders Bruun, said Monday it will ask the Federal Court in Winnipeg for an “expedited hearing” […] Read more
Equipment funding extended for VBP participants
Cattle producers taking part in a Verified Beef Production (VBP) workshop now have until Dec. 31 to apply for funding to purchase equipment via the Canadian Food Safety and Quality Program. The federal agriculture department has extended the deadline to allow more producers to take advantage of the funding available, according to a release Monday […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
