BASF Canada has picked up registration for its Group 2 herbicide Solo to be used in Clearfield lentil crops. The imazamox herbicide is already approved for control of 10 grasses and eight broadleaf weeds in field peas, Clearfield canola and, last week, Clearfield sunflowers. The company said the registration will allow lentil growers more rotation […] Read more
Solo cleared for Clearfield lentils
Dow to sell strawboard plant in pieces: MCO
Dow Chemical Canada has stopped seeking buyers for its strawboard plant at Elie, Man., and will instead sell the plant’s press equipment to foreign buyers, the Manitoba Co-operator reports. The Jan. 3 issue of the farmers’ newspaper quotes a spokesperson for the chemical company as saying the plant’s pressboard and associated machinery has been sold […] Read more
Ag communicator Ginty Jocius, 61
Ginty Jocius, creator of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and a renowned pioneer in Canada’s agriculture communications sector, died Wednesday in Guelph of complications from brain cancer. Jocius, 61, founded his self-named marketing and communications company in Guelph in 1982, specializing in agricultural products and services and including a roster of well-known clients across the continent. […] Read more
Barley deal with CWB “not achievable”: WGEA
Western Canada’s biggest grain elevator companies have weighed in on the Canadian Wheat Board’s proposed barley pricing option by calling for “the complete deregulation of barley as soon as possible.” The Western Grain Elevator Association, which as recently as August 2006 said it had “chosen to stay out of the debate concerning the future of […] Read more
Ont. ag retailer to consolidate sites
Fertilizer company Agrico Canada, through its joint venture Northumberland Grain in southern Ontario, has bought a neighbouring ag retailer with plans to consolidate three outlets down to two. The company, 50 per cent co-owned by Agrico with Dexter and Karen Harder, has bought Hunco Farm Supply, an ag input, feed and farm supply dealer at […] Read more
Approval paves way for Clearfield sunflowers: BASF
Approval of a herbicide for use on Clearfield sunflowers is expected to clear the way for the Clearfield sunflower system this spring. BASF Canada on Thursday announced it has picked up minor-use registration for its Group 2 herbicide Solo to be used in Clearfield sunflower crops. The imazamox herbicide is already approved for control of […] Read more
Ont. greenhouse growers to vote on checkoff
Ballots will be in the mail next week for Ontario’s growers of cut flowers, potted plants, bedding annuals and “propagative plant materials” to vote on a proposed mandatory checkoff to fund Flowers Canada (Ontario). The group has applied to the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission (OFPMC) to be recognized as the official representative association for […] Read more
Alta. potato pest probe comes up negative: CFIA
Testing of seed potato fields across Alberta has found no potato cyst nematode (PCN) population anywhere in the province, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday. Over 8,700 soil samples have not confirmed the pest’s presence, even after tests in October turned up the “possible presence” of PCN in two fields in the northern part […] Read more
West’s ag councils link up on value chains
Western Canada’s agricultural councils, the support agencies for several programs promoting innovation in agriculture, will jointly back an education and awareness program to promote value chains. The four councils and their provinces’ governments will back the Western Canadian Value Chain Initiative, bringing an interprovincial focus to a series of workshops to be held this spring […] Read more
Ritz pans CWB barley pricing plan
Canada’s agriculture minister calls the Canadian Wheat Board’s proposed cash pricing option for malting barley a “half measure” he won’t support. In an opinion piece released to newspapers Tuesday, Gerry Ritz writes that the CWB’s pricing plan for the 2008 malting barley crop does not go far enough for the liking of “farm groups and […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
