Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta has telegraphed plans for a new provincial tax credit in its upcoming budget to spur development in the ag processing sector. The province on Tuesday announced plans for what it calls the Alberta Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit — a 12 per cent, “non-refundable” tax credit for corporations making capital investments in “value-added agri-processing” in […] Read more
Alberta plans new ag processing tax credit
Incentive to be introduced in 2023 budget
Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot
Trade barrier on pause for two years for food businesses serving Lloydminster
Reading Time: 3 minutes The idea of loosening interprovincial trade in certain foods made by provincially-inspected processors will get a major test in one of Canada’s very few province-crossing municipalities. The Saskatchewan, Alberta and federal governments on Jan. 19 announced the start of a two-year pilot project within the limits of Lloydminster, a city of over 31,000 people straddling […] Read more
Local food outlook
How far will the local trend actually take today’s ag?
Reading Time: 4 minutes While the pandemic was still raging a year ago, Business Development Bank of Canada added statistical muscle to what so many others were observing all across the country. COVID-19 was great news for local food. In its nation-wide survey, the bank found 21 per cent of Canadians had started buying more local products since the […] Read more
Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa
Continent facing record-level hunger
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dakar | Reuters — Development partners have committed US$30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than […] Read more
U.S. wants WTO dispute system fixed by 2024
Appeals body frozen since Trump era; Washington 'very committed' to reform
Reading Time: 2 minutes Geneva | Reuters — The United States is entering a third phase of talks with countries to reform the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) hobbled trade dispute arbitration system and aims for it to be “fully functioning” by the end of 2024, the U.S. ambassador to the WTO told Reuters on Thursday. The WTO’s appeals bench, […] Read more
CFIA president retires
NFU calls for next agency boss to prevent 'regulatory capture'
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s federal regulator for the food and animal and plant health sectors is in the market for a new president following the incumbent’s retirement. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed its president, Dr. Siddika Mithani, has retired from the federal public service effective Jan. 20. Mithani has led CFIA since February 2019, having served […] Read more
California rainstorms fade as death toll reaches 20
Drought to remain an issue for much of state
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The parade of atmospheric rivers that pounded California for three weeks finally faded on Monday, enabling the state to begin lengthy repairs to roads and levees as the White House announced U.S. President Joe Biden planned to survey the damage. The nine consecutive rainstorms that inundated California in succession since Dec. 26 killed […] Read more
California picks up debris from latest storm, braces for next
Also: Why all this rain won't end California's drought
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sacramento | Reuters — Rain-soaked Californians took advantage of a break in a weeks-long deluge to haul away dead trees, restore downed power lines and prepare new stacks of sandbags before another series of storms hits the state beginning Friday. In Monterey County along the state’s central coast, communities near the still-rising Salinas River were […] Read more
Last year tied as world’s fifth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say
Global CO2 emissions continue to rise
Reading Time: 2 minutes Brussels | Reuters — Last year was the world’s joint fifth-warmest on record and the last nine years were the nine warmest since pre-industrial times, putting the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 C in serious jeopardy, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. Last year tied with 2015 as the fifth-warmest year […] Read more
Helping irrigation finding its value
High commodity prices and dry weather prompt some growers to have a look
Reading Time: 4 minutes Whether it’s in a wagon full of corn, a load of fertilizer, a jug of fungicide, a robotic milker or a new tractor, farmers always look at whether it will provide a return on investment. For those with the option, irrigation is another item to add to the ROI list. Until recently, irrigation was more […] Read more
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