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Ernie Hardeman, the Ontario Tories’ agriculture and food critic, will now handle rural affairs as part of his critic portfolio. The Tories’ new leader, Tim Hudak, announced the move when introducing his new shadow cabinet Monday. As rural affairs critic, Hardeman replaces Perth-area MPP Randy Hillier, who was named Monday as the opposition critic for[...]

The pandemic flu strain H1N1 has crossed over to hogs in various areas of Manitoba, causing only "very mild" effects in assorted feeder barns, nursery barns and sow barns. The Manitoba agriculture department's chief veterinary officer, Dr. Wayne Lees, delivered that assessment last week on ProMed, an online archive operated by the Massachusetts-based International Society[...]

Kory Teneycke, the vocal biofuels industry advocate who last year became Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s director of communications, is quitting his government post, according to news reports Tuesday from Parliament Hill. Teneycke, who was a research director for the federal Conservatives before taking the communications job, was executive director of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association[...]

Several farmer organizations are urging Canadian National Railway (CN) to reconsider its plans to stop service to 53 producer car loading sites across the Prairies. A 60-day notice period, required under Transport Canada regulations, ended Sunday with no known offers from farmers to lease the rail sidings where the railway would previously pick up producer[...]

(Resource News International) -- Slow crop development across much of Alberta could result in many grain and oilseed fields going to forage instead of being harvested, according to a provincial crop specialist. Most of Alberta benefited from at least an inch of rain over the past week, said Harry Brook, a crops specialist with Alberta[...]

The annual round of federal drought designations, which provides income tax deferrals for ranchers in affected areas, starts off this year with 26 jurisdictions in Alberta and 76 rural municipalities in Saskatchewan. Ranchers in the municipalities designated by the federal government can defer a portion of tax owing on income from breeding stock sold due[...]

(Resource News International) -- Feed pea prices in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been holding fairly steady while values in Alberta have been creeping upward. The ability of values to hold steady and even move a bit higher is being directly related to the weather. "The dryness in Alberta and the western half of Saskatchewan has[...]

(Resource News International) -- Grain, oilseeds, pasture and hay crops across much of Alberta are in serious need of moisture soon if there is any hope of these crops maturing ahead of an early frost, a provincial crop specialist warns. "There are a few areas within the province that there has been enough rain and[...]

A former Saskatchewan agriculture minister who's now his party's leader has named himself the party's critic on agriculture issues. Dwain Lingenfelter, who served a relatively short stint as agriculture minister (1999-2000) while serving as deputy premier (1995-2000) in Roy Romanow's NDP government, on Tuesday appointed himself as critic for agriculture, Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. and[...]

(Resource News International) -- Spring seeding is mostly complete in Alberta, but producers there are now in desperate need of rain and warmer temperatures to help the crops along, according to a provincial crops specialist. "This might not be the year to grow corn, let's put it that way," Harry Brook, a crops specialist with[...]