The Canadian Wheat Board will extend its pilot organic marketing program by offering organic grain growers spring contracts on a limited basis for 2008-09, starting in mid-April. Contract availability is limited and will be determined by market opportunities, the board said in a release Friday. The marketing program includes a cash price upon delivery and, […] Read more
CWB to offer organic spring contracts
Ottawa tops up Ont. ethanol plant’s tank
IGPC Ethanol, a farmer-backed corn ethanol project southeast of London, Ont., has picked up $3.9 million in federal funding. Joe Preston, an Ontario MP, announced the funding Friday from the federal ecoAgriculture Biofuels Capital (ecoABC) initiative for the project, spearheaded by the Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative at Aylmer. IGPC’s plan calls for a 150 million-litre […] Read more
Flax processing among dairy projects funded
A study on processing flax as a feed supplement for dairy cows and development of a greenhouse gas calculator for the dairy sector are among four projects in Atlantic Canada sharing $1.1 million in new federal funding. The funding, announced Friday in Fredericton by New Brunswick MP Mike Allen, will flow through the Advancing Canadian […] Read more
Volatility trims 2008-09 wheat PROs
Continued volatility in new-crop U.S. wheat futures has taken $2 per tonne off the Canadian Wheat Board’s pool return outlook (PRO) for most grades of new-crop milling wheat. In its latest PRO, released Thursday, the CWB said global production estimates still point to a “significantly larger” wheat crop in the coming year and crop conditions […] Read more
Potato insecticide gets four-year reprieve
Canadian potato growers have been granted another four years’ use of Thimet 15G to control wireworm, for lack of reasonable alternatives. Engage Agro, the Guelph company that markets crop protection products such as Thimet for Canadian niche crops, and Amvac, the insecticide’s Los Angeles manufacturer, on Thursday announced the product had won yet another reprieve […] Read more
NAFTA partners standardize breeding cattle trade
A deal to harmonize North America to international standards for trade in breeding cattle will end a ban by several U.S. state governments against Canadian breeding stock entering Mexico through their border ports. The three North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, announced Thursday that they’ve agreed to harmonize trade […] Read more
Refine SG good for aerial spraying
DuPont Canada has picked up federal regulators’ approval for aerial application of its Group 2 herbicide Refine SG. “Aerial applicators and growers have been asking for this solution for a few years, so this will be good news for them,” said Travis Schoonbaert, DuPont’s cereals and oilseeds product manager, in a press release Thursday. Refine […] Read more
Man. pork council “pauses” research funding
The Manitoba Pork Council plans a “temporary pause” on all of its research funding in light of what it called a “permanent moratorium” on the province’s hog industry. The council’s announcement Thursday follows the provincial government’s indefinite moratorium, put in place March 3, on new or expanding hog operations in the province’s southeastern “hog alley” […] Read more
Ont. to flow communities funding toward farms
The Ontario government plans to stream at least some of the $358 million it will receive from the federal Community Development Trust toward agriculture programs. Premier Dalton McGuinty and Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Ontario’s allocation from the fund in a news release Thursday. The federal government’s $1 billion Community Development Trust funds, to be […] Read more
Pioneer Hi-Bred plant to boost seed output
Pioneer Hi-Bred expects to boost its hybrid canola seed production acreage by almost 60 per cent this year through its new Lethbridge, Alta. facility. Pioneer, a DuPont subsidiary, officially opened the Lethbridge facility Thursday, saying the facility will be part of the company’s plan to lead the canola seed market by 2012. DuPont, earlier this […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
