A Saskatchewan-developed, cloud-based mobile app for farm management is being uploaded into Prairie grain marketing consultancy FarmLink Marketing Solutions. Winnipeg-based FarmLink announced Tuesday it will merge Farm At Hand, the software platform developed by Kim Keller and Himanshu Singh, into its operations. Financial terms of the merger weren’t released. “It has long been our belief […] Read more
FarmLink picks up mobile management app
Manitoba winter fertilizing ban back on
Snow’s arrival throughout Manitoba means no more extensions for the province’s farmers to apply winter fertilizer or manure. The province said Thursday its second extension, which was to run until the end of the day, has been rescinded, and the winter nutrient application ban is in place effective immediately, given “recent snowfall accumulations.” The winter […] Read more
History: Historical articles on Fort Walsh
Reprinted from the December 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Historical Articles on Fort Walsh By Senator F.W. Gershaw, Medicine Hat, Alta. ‘The great western march of the North West Mounted Police really ended in the late Fall of 1874 when they reached the foothills of the Rockies. Preparing for winter Fort Macleod was built. Shelter was first erected for the horses and then the […] Read more
Warm Prairie soils delay fertilizing ban, winter weights
Manitoba’s winter ban on nutrient application has been postponed, again, while Saskatchewan has postponed its move to winter weights on its highways, due to warmer-than-average soil temperatures. Manitoba’s water stewardship department announced Friday it will further extend its nutrient application window until midnight, Nov. 19. Variances to Manitoba’s winter fertilizing ban — which typically runs […] Read more
Legumex Walker shareholders approve sale
Shareholders in Prairie special crops processor Legumex Walker have voted to take a deal for their company’s assets from U.S. grain firm Scoular. Winnipeg-based Legumex reported Monday that shareholders representing just over 76 per cent of its stock have voted 99.6 per cent in favour of selling the company’s special crops division to the Scoular […] Read more
History: Salt: The livestock producer’s most essential mineral
Reprinted from the November 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Salt: The livestock producer’s most essential mineral By Edward H. Burles, Canadian Cattlemen Staff ‘When livestock are short of feed or water, bawling tells us their need. Salt hunger, however, is not so readily indicated nor so easily noticed as the need for water or feed. The need for salt nevertheless is just as real […] Read more
Rookie MP named Bloc’s agriculture critic
The Bloc Quebecois has tapped a rookie Montreal-area MP from its expanded 10-member caucus to serve as its new critic for agriculture and agri-food. Simon Marcil won the newly created riding of Mirabel in last month’s election by a spread of 837 votes over Mylene Freeman, the incumbent NDP MP for Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel and the party’s […] Read more
NDP’s deputy ag critic moves to first chair
The federal New Democrats have promoted their deputy agriculture critic to the lead post in their new shadow cabinet. NDP leader Tom Mulcair on Thursday announced Ruth Ellen Brosseau, the MP for the central Quebec riding of Berthier–Maskinonge since 2011, as the party’s critic for agriculture and agri-food, replacing defeated Niagara-area MP Malcolm Allen. Brosseau, […] Read more
Olymel buying into Quebec pork packer Lucyporc
Canada’s biggest pork and poultry exporter is set to take a stake in a Quebec pork packer specializing in cuts for the Japanese market and other overseas buyers. Olymel, the meat packing and processing arm of Quebec’s Coop Federee, announced a share exchange Monday with Quebec livestock producer and processor Groupe Robitaille, which would give […] Read more
Alltech to buy up Canadian feed firm Masterfeeds
Animal nutrition firm Alltech is set to make itself one of Canada’s top animal food and livestock feed players, with a deal in hand to buy the stake in Masterfeeds it doesn’t already own. Alltech, a Lexington, Kentucky-based international firm in aggressive acquisition mode, announced Tuesday it will buy all outstanding shares of Masterfeeds, Inc. […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
