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Pearce: Level of on-farm investment favours large Canadian farms

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The large keep getting larger, and they keep investing more, as well. That’s the one-sentence summary from a new study from the Ivey School of Business Agri-food Innovation Centre. The study, Investment and Growth on Canadian Farms 2001-2009, has determined that Canadian farms saw total investments increase by more than $3 billion during the height […] Read more
Additional funding from the Ontario government is expected to help the HayEast program continue to move donated hay to drought-hit areas of Ontario until the end of May. (OFA.on.ca)
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HayEast gets Ont. funding through May

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Organizers of the HayEast drive to run feed from Western Canada to ranchers in parched areas of Ontario and Quebec have picked up six-figure provincial support which they say will see the program through to June 1. HayEast 2012, a partnership involving farm organizations across Canada and the Winnipeg-based Mennonite Disaster Service, was set up […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Cargill cleared to muffle Vancouver grain terminal

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Port Metro Vancouver has granted Cargill the go-ahead on a project it hopes will dial down the noise outside the company’s grain terminal on Vancouver’s North Shore. The company said Tuesday it has received its project permits from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) to set up four sound-absorbing barriers on the trackshed rooftops on […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Alta. farms’ diesel discount cancelled in budget

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A "distribution allowance" that gave Alberta’s farmers a six-cent-per-litre break on diesel fuel for farm use is a casualty of Thursday’s provincial budget, effective immediately. Finance Minister Doug Horner’s 2013-14 budget eliminates the farm fuel distribution allowance portion of the province’s Farm Fuel Benefit Program, ending a benefit which cost the province an estimated $32.5 […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Weather

HayEast’s government funding expires

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The HayEast drive to get Prairie hay to livestock producers in parched regions of Ontario and Quebec is expected to continue past the expiry of its government funding. "Government funds have expired, but organizers are still assessing how many more farmers we can continue to help before the private donations run out," Mark Wales, president […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

National grains biosecurity standard launched

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A new voluntary standard for biosecurity on Canada’s grain- and oilseed-producing farms is expected to help growers build or improve on their existing farmgate-level systems at any scale. "While some pieces of this may already be common practice, I think many producers will pick up some new tips as well to help prevent the spread […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Mississippi River rock removal project completed

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Barge shipping on the middle Mississippi River returned to normal on Thursday for the first time since December as rain and snowmelt revived the drought-hit waterway and government engineers completed a two-month riverbed rock removal project. The worst U.S. drought in a half century sapped the major shipping artery and fuelled concerns that barge shipments […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Clubroot found in Manitoba soils

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Testing has confirmed levels of clubroot capable of producing disease in two soil samples collected from Manitoba canola fields last year, provincial officials say. "It is significant in that we can no longer consider ourselves free of clubroot in Manitoba," said Holly Derksen, a plant pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives’ soils and […] Read more

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