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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit down again on Tyson fire

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News August 13, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures plunged to multiyear lows on Tuesday, with some contract months for both live cattle and fed cattle ending at their daily trading limits for the second day in a row. Traders said the market continued to weigh the impact of a fire at a key […] Read more

General, Weather

B.C. grants late AgriStability enrolment for 2018

By GFM Staff March 13, 2019

Fire, flooding and a drop in raspberry prices in 2018 have spurred the federal and British Columbia governments to trigger the AgriStability late-participation mechanism. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her provincial counterpart Lana Popham, at an event Monday in Vernon, B.C., invoked the new late-participation rule for the 2018 AgriStability program year, “to help farmers […] Read more

General

Four ways to help protect your farm from fire

October 19, 2018

Whether it’s close to home or across an ocean, fire hasn’t been far from the news this summer. This year has been average in terms of fire risk on the Prairies, says Mike Flannigan, professor of wildland fire and the director of the western partnership for wildland fire science at the University of Alberta. But[...]
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General, Machinery, Weather

AgriRecovery offered for B.C. wildfire costs

By GFM Staff October 4, 2018

British Columbia ranchers and farmers who lost pasture or cropland or had to move livestock out of the path of wildfires this year may be eligible for AgriRecovery funding. The federal and B.C. governments on Thursday announced a new AgriRecovery program worth up to $5 million to help defray “extraordinary costs incurred” due to wildfires[...]
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Features, Livestock, News

Ranchers prove essential in fighting B.C. wildfires

One of the main issues the BC Cattlemen’s Association confronted was animal welfare

By Piper Whelan September 19, 2018

The 2017 British Columbia wildfires, the largest in the province’s history, at that time, will likely loom in the collective memory of cattle producers for years. While the devastating scope of the fires is what many remember about that disastrous summer, ranchers contributed greatly to the firefighting efforts and set important precedents about the role[...]
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Crops

Fire shutters Dalhousie ag campus’ main building

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 22, 2018

The Cox Institute, the main building on Dalhousie University’s agricultural campus, has been closed down by a Wednesday night fire believed to have caused substantial damage. No one was reported to be injured in the fire, the Nova Scotia university said via Twitter. According to local media the fire broke out Wednesday evening in the[...]
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Canola, Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Bunge resumes canola crushing after fire, soy line down

By Rod Nickel May 1, 2015

Reuters — Agrifood firm Bunge Ltd. restarted canola processing at its Hamilton, Ont. plant late Thursday after a fire, spokeswoman Deb Seidel said Friday. She said the plant will resume soybean processing after the investigation into the fire is complete and water is cleaned up. There were no injuries, she said. According to Hamilton’s fire[...]
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Canola, Crops, Soybeans

Fire damages Bunge’s Hamilton crush plant

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 30, 2015

Fire officials in Hamilton, Ont. estimate a fire in a soybean drying unit at Bunge’s oilseed crush plant has caused about $20,000 in damages. The city’s fire department on Thursday said multiple fire crews responded to a report of a fire at the Bunge plant at about 12:40 p.m. The fire, officials said, broke out[...]
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U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit down again on Tyson fire

B.C. grants late AgriStability enrolment for 2018

Four ways to help protect your farm from fire

AgriRecovery offered for B.C. wildfire costs

Ranchers prove essential in fighting B.C. wildfires

Fire shutters Dalhousie ag campus’ main building

Bunge resumes canola crushing after fire, soy line down

Fire damages Bunge’s Hamilton crush plant

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