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Olds College is now offering a new major aimed at training the next generation of land-use planning technicians and development officers. These roles involve gathering and researching environmental data to help assess how residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural developments interact with rural landscapes and ecosystems. This new program addresses both an employment shortage and an[...]

University of Illinois researchers mapping the cattle genome say that of the genes mapped so far, 83 per cent could be identified as identical to human genes."The comparative map has enormous predictive power," lead researcher Harris Lewin, director of the W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics at the University of Illinois said in[...]

The federal government's plan to diversify regions of British Columbia where infestations of mountain pine beetle have hit the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for the Cariboo-Central Interior Poultry Producers[...]

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the Ontario government's appeal of a lower court decision that shot down the provincial law blocking farm workers from collective bargaining. Canada's top court announced Thursday it will hear the province's appeal of a Nov. 17 decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal that overturned the province's Agricultural[...]

The Ontario government will seek leave to appeal a provincial court's overruling of a law that blocks farm workers from collective bargaining. A spokesperson for Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky confirmed Wednesday that the province will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear its appeal of a Nov. 17 decision by the Ontario Court of[...]

The Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA) expects to be better able to form industry-government partnerships now that it's incorporated, the agency said Monday. The agency, which reports to provincial Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld, got its incorporation status Monday. "This is an important step in creating a successful partnership with industry and transitioning to a[...]

Canada's former chief NAFTA negotiator and the operations manager for a well-known Calgary-area ranch are the newest board members for the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency. Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld named John Weekes and Cherie Copithorne-Barnes to ALMA's board on Monday. "Their combined experience in international trade and beef production systems, in both Alberta and[...]

A provincial appeal court has overruled an Ontario law excluding farm workers from collective bargaining. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, which challenged the five-year-old Agricultural Employees Protection Act last May at the Ontario Court of Appeal, on Monday hailed the court's ruling that the Act violates workers' constitutional Charter rights to freedom[...]

(Resource News International) -- Harvest operations in Alberta were seen as being virtually complete with only its central region having any significant area left to combine, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Provincially, the harvest in Alberta is mostly complete, with only a small area in the central region left to be combined," said Harry[...]

(Resource News International) -- Favourable weather conditions during the past week allowed producers in Alberta to make good harvest progress, according to a crop specialist with the province's Ag-Info Centre. "Provincially, the harvest in Alberta is roughly 85 to 90 per cent complete, with only the central region of the province having any significant crops[...]