News Roundup

A new service to producers, the Western Canadian Post-Registration Variety Trials Online, was officially launched by the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) in April. This interactive site puts agronomic and performance data from the annual variety trials across the four western provinces right at your fingertips. It’s the data you would find in each of […] Read more

Canada hopes to reopen the key South Korean market for Canadian beef exports through consultations at the World Trade Organization. WTO consultations give member nations a chance to resolve such disputes through discussions. But if consultations don’t resolve the matter, the complaining nation may then ask that the matter be referred to a WTO dispute […] Read more

FORAGE AN ALBERTA VOICE FOR FORAGE The Alberta Forage Industry Network (AFIN) was officially launched Feb. 27 in Olds. The new organization was formed to bring all of the industries and associations in the province that rely on forage together under one banner. As such AFIN represents livestock producers, beekeepers, processors, seed and equipment companies, […] Read more

Manitoba is spending $400,000 to develop a new computerized database to hold up its end of a national traceability and surveillance system. The contract is with IBM to pay for equipment, database development and staffing. The agri-food premises identification system will locate and register all farms and other places where animals are kept or sold. […] Read more

The worst fears of Canadian beef producers about the Obama Administration came true on the first day when the new American president put a hold on all new regulations passed by the departing Bush team. As a result the final rule on the mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) regulation went back on the shelf. […] Read more