Reading Time: < 1 minute Legislation to regulate the sale and trade of organic food within Manitoba is back on the table after last summer’s provincial election. The provincial Organic Agricultural Products Act will include many of the standards and procedures as the national organic products regulations introduced in December, said Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk, noting the province was “instrumental” […] Read more
Manitoba to regulate organic sector
Manitoba combines back in fields
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers in Manitoba’s central, southwest and eastern regions were able to push forward with harvest as the weather dried up last week, the province reported Monday in its weekly crop update. Relatively few canola acres, especially in the northwest, remain unharvested, while yields on harvested crop are just under 30 bushels per acre on average. […] Read more
Northeastern Sask. behind curve on harvest
Reading Time: < 1 minute Harvest in Saskatchewan’s northern grain belt remains far behind the rest of the province, leaving the harvest 87 per cent complete provincewide, the agriculture department said yesterday. That’s up from 78 per cent last week and from the five-year average of 79 per cent, but down from 92 per cent at the same time last […] Read more
Alta. to fund barley growers’ intervention
Reading Time: < 1 minute After announcing it would file for intervener status in the federal government’s latest legal battle to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk for barley, Alberta’s provincial government pledged to back another intervention also. The Western Barley Growers Association, based in Airdrie, Alta., will get up to $50,000 from the province toward the cost of […] Read more
N.B. fine-tunes wind map
Reading Time: < 1 minute New Brunswick’s provincial government has put up a new, more detailed wind map showing areas best suited to wind energy projects — and zones that are off limits to wind turbines. The province’s new Technical Wind Power Potential map builds on the wind atlas released in March, targeting regions more precisely and removing zones such […] Read more
Bevo Agro says behind on bond repayment
Reading Time: < 1 minute B.C.-based greenhouse supplier Bevo Agro Inc. reported Monday that it’s in no position yet to pay back $5 million it owes on a bond it issued to a Vancouver private equity firm in 2003. The debenture issued to Banyan Capital Partners matured Sept. 24 and the $5 million principal is now due, Bevo Agro reported […] Read more
Agricore CEO, VP join Ridley board
Reading Time: < 1 minute Having dealt himself out of a job by merging his company into Viterra, Brian Hayward is now chairman of Winnipeg feed maker Ridley, Inc. Hayward, until June this year, had been the chief executive officer of Canada’s largest grain handler, Winnipeg-based Agricore United, but stepped down after helping coax Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the no. 2 […] Read more
Ottawa boosts 2007-08 CWB initials
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prairie wheat and barley growers can expect a harvest of adjustment payments in the next three weeks — and the Canadian Wheat Board is already pressing for more. The federal government today announced it has approved increases to the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2007-08 initial payments — increases of around 20 per cent for wheat and […] Read more
Crop prices drive farmland values: FCC
Reading Time: 2 minutes Higher commodity prices have been written into the values of farmland across much of Canada in the first half of 2007, leading to the country’s biggest overall increase in ag land values in five years, Farm Credit Canada reported Monday. The federal farm lending agency said in its farmland values report that the value of […] Read more
No cross-border travel for Sask. birds
Reading Time: < 1 minute A ban on movement of live birds out of Saskatchewan is among the latest biosecurity restrictions in place following last week’s confirmation of a strain of avian flu on a south-central poultry farm. The farm, found between the communities of Lumsden and Regina Beach northwest of Regina, is the centre of an “infected region” with […] Read more