FBC staff

The bison herd on Canada’s Prairies has made a comeback, at least on Prairie farms, according to Statistics Canada. For a species once nearly wiped out of the wild as the Prairies were settled, numbers of farmed bison have risen substantially in the last five years alone, the agency said. Census numbers of bison in […] Read more

The federal government has pledged $660,000 toward South American governments’ bids to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The funding, announced Thursday in Buenos Aires by Alberta MP Ted Menzies, will go toward contributions of lab equipment and training in FMD diagnostic tools over the next two years. These tools include computer simulation modeling to assess, predict […] Read more

“Nearly all” Saskatchewan hog farmers who were eligible for the federal/provincial Targeted Advance Payment (TAP) program have been told they’ll see less than expected or nothing at all from the program, according to the province’s hog farmer organization. That’s after the province’s hog farmers got word individually from the federal Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) […] Read more

The Alberta government’s climate change action plan is expected to include strategies to help farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The action plan, a general outline of which was released Thursday by Environment Minister Rob Renner and Premier Ed Stelmach, focuses largely on development of a “made-in-Alberta” plan for carbon capture and storage — that is, […] Read more