Winnipeg | Reuters -- As some Western Canada farmers watched rain and snow turn their ripening canola fields into bogs, Rob Stone could count his blessings. Harvest weather was kinder to his farm at Davidson, Sask., about 100 km southeast of Saskatoon, and Stone finished harvesting canola by mid-September. Then, when worries about four million[...]
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Australian bidders gatecrash deal for country's biggest landholding
Sydney | Reuters -- Four of Australia's wealthiest outback cattle families plan to make the first entirely domestic offer to buy S.Kidman and Co, the country's largest private landholding, paying more than a rival bid of A$365 million (C$370.1 million), two of the quartet said. Kidman has already accepted a joint offer by Australia's richest[...]
B.C. farm journal under new ownership
The monthly paper billed as Canada's oldest independently-owned farm journal has yielded a new owner from its own front office. Cathy Glover, the assistant editor and sales manager for Country Life in B.C., was announced Wednesday as the journal's new owner, taking over from retiring editor/publisher Peter Wilding. British Columbia's commercial farmers and ranchers "have[...]
First U.S. trader convicted of spoofing sentenced to jail
Chicago | Reuters -- A U.S. judge sentenced futures trader Michael Coscia to three years in prison on Wednesday, a lighter punishment than prosecutors had sought for the first person criminally convicted of the manipulative trading practice of spoofing. Coscia also was sentenced to two years of supervised release from jail, in a case that[...]
Alberta rain good news for farmers, bad news for grasshoppers
CNS Canada -- After a dry spring, the rainfall across Alberta is a welcome change -- unless you're a grasshopper. "I'd hoped that over the weekend with the rain we had it would drown the little buggers out. When they're small like that, they're easily drowned if there's water on the surface," said crop specialist[...]
U.S. asked to seize Bundy cattle to protect tortoises
Reuters -- Environmental groups have asked the U.S. government to seize hundreds of jailed militant rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle, saying unregulated grazing of his herd on public lands in Nevada threatens habitat for federally protected desert tortoises. The request from nine organizations in a letter sent on Monday to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management[...]
Mild winter, poor snow cover watched in Alberta, Saskatchewan
CNS Canada -- A milder than normal winter, with a lack of significant snow cover across much of Alberta and Saskatchewan, may be raising concerns in parts of the Prairies -- but there is still plenty of time before spring seeding will begin. "There's not much moisture there," said Harry Brook, crop specialist with Alberta's[...]
New 'superbug' gene found in animals, people in China
London | Reuters -- A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China -- including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said Wednesday. The discovery was described as "alarming" by scientists, who called for urgent restrictions on the use[...]
Alta. harvest turns up stagey crops
CNS Canada -- Alberta farmers who could have used wet conditions earlier this year now have rain slowing their harvest progress. However, the biggest issue producers in the province face is field variability, according to Harry Brook, a crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry in Stettler. "It truly is a mess out there --[...]
Western Prairies see low yields as harvest ramps up
CNS Canada -- This summer’s erratic weather has taken its toll on plant development in Alberta and parts of western Saskatchewan, according to crop-watchers in those areas. “We have heard that dry conditions have caused plants (peas) to slough off or have the tillers dry off and have lost those heads,” said Barry Yaremcio at[...]
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