Reading Time: < 1 minute A project to generate power and heat from livestock waste and improve water remediation in Alberta’s Peace River country will get over $904,000 in provincial government funding. The province announced Friday that Smoky Pork Development Ltd. will get funding through its Bio-refining Commercialization and Market Development program and its Bio-energy Infrastructure Development program, as one […] Read more
Alta. backs biogas project
CN’s hopper car bookings can continue: CTA
Reading Time: < 1 minute CN can continue to run its advance car booking program for grain hopper cars while the Canadian Transportation Agency hears the complaint against it, the CTA ruled Friday. The railway’s advance booking programs are at the heart of a level-of-service complaint against it to the CTA, filed by the Canadian Wheat Board and five smaller […] Read more
Quebec funds agro-environmental R&D
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Quebec government has put up $2.7 million as part of a $4 million project to add research and development capability for agro-environmental goods and services at the Centre de developpement bioalimentaire du Quebec at La Pocatiere, about 90 miles northeast of Quebec City. The investment will allow the CDBQ to buy new, specialized equipment […] Read more
Canadian vintners to study HACCP
Reading Time: < 1 minute Five wineries are testing out a new HACCP food safety protocol for the Canadian wine industry. The Canadian Vintners Association on Friday picked up $312,000 in federal funding to develop an industry-wide system using the U.S.-developed Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) model. The five wineries are assessing the HACCP materials developed by the CVA […] Read more
Premiums just cover ’07 Prairie hail claims: insurers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Estimates so far from Prairie farmers’ hail claims for 2007 come in at $208 million, just short of the $211 million collected in premiums, according to a hail insurers’ group. The Canadian Crop Hail Association said Friday in the last of its bimonthly reports for 2007 that “considerably more” cash will be paid out in […] Read more
Wind, sun power Alta. air monitoring station
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta’s West Central Airshed Society has opened the province’s first air monitoring station powered by solar and wind energy. The station, one of 127 air monitoring stations in the province, is meant to provide background data to help manage air quality in the province. The Alberta government, which put up $40,000 toward the design and […] Read more
Barley market not tied to single-desk fight: Ritter
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prices for Prairie barley have little to do with the prospects of an open market and have climbed, not fallen, said Canadian Wheat Board chairman Ken Ritter Thursday, rebutting claims Wednesday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Ritter said Harper’s comments in the House of Commons, which were part of his response to Tuesday night’s throne […] Read more
McCain sells packaged juice business
Reading Time: < 1 minute McCain Foods Canada has signed a deal to sell its packaged juice business to Quebec juice company A. Lassonde for an undisclosed sum. The operations, referred to as its “aseptic beverage” business, involve McCain’s Old South, Zwak and Junior Juice lines of single-serving and large juice boxes. McCain keeps its Old South, McCain and Cool […] Read more
Sask. avian flu flock buried: CFIA
Reading Time: < 1 minute Burial of all birds and all litter from barns on a “depopulated” southern Saskatchewan poultry farm is complete, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday. Decomposition after burial will effectively kill the highly pathogenic H7N3 avian flu virus that infected some birds in the Regina Beach-area flock, the agency said. The burial, however, doesn’t spell […] Read more
Lillian wheat caught on quick: CWB survey
Reading Time: 2 minutes Lillian, a milling wheat variety launched last year, is already the most commonly seeded red spring wheat on the Prairies, the Canadian Wheat Board found in its annual variety survey. Lillian, known for a solid stem that resists damage caused by the wheat-stem sawfly, made up 14.8 per cent of all CWRS seeding on the […] Read more