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Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal government has launched a last-minute appeal of a Federal Court ruling overturning a controversial “gag order” on the Canadian Wheat Board, the National Farmers Union reported Monday. The appeal was filed “late Friday, Sept. 19, on the last possible date,” the NFU said in a release Monday. Ottawa’s appeal is of a June […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Warm, dry weather over much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba last week allowed farmers to make “significant” harvest progress, the two provinces’ agriculture departments reported Monday. Saskatchewan farmers have harvested 66 per cent of the 2008 crop, up from 39 per cent the previous week and above the 2003-07 average of 63 per cent, the provincial […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Just days after suing over the removal of spending limits on third-party electioneering for Canadian Wheat Board directorships, a Prairie farmers’ group is taking the federal government to court again over further changes to the election process. “The Harper government’s latest attack on the CWB is clearly designed to prevent legitimate voters from receiving ballots […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Prairie wheat growers with fusarium-infected No. 2 Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat can now sign up for the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2008-09 fusarium program. Sign-up began Friday (Sept. 19) for the delivery contract program, which guarantees 100 per cent acceptance and delivery by Nov. 28 for No. 2 CWRW with fusarium levels between 2.1 […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute New Brunswick’s deputy minster of intergovernmental affairs will move over a chair to become the province’s top bureaucrat for agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries. Longtime provincial public servant Jim McKay becomes deputy minister for both the agriculture and aquaculture portfolio and the fisheries portfolio effective Monday (Sept. 22), Premier Shawn Graham said in a release Thursday. […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ontario’s wine and grape production industries combined yielded a value-added impact of $529 million for the province’s economy in 2007, a new study reports. The study, done by KPMG for the Wine Council of Ontario, says that impact is up from $202 million in 1997. Furthermore, the study said, the industry supported about 7,000 Ontario […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ontario’s provincial government will provide start-up cash to launch an agricultural co-operative and seasonal tours through the Niagara region. The project, to be co-ordinated by Club 2000 Niagara, is meant to help make the region “a centre for agricultural tourism in southern Ontario,” the province said in a release Thursday. The province’s investment totals $128,480, […] Read more