Reading Time: < 1 minute The head of the union representing grain handler Viterra’s striking office workers says he’s unhappy with some of the company’s tactics. The company has confirmed it is trying to recruit temporary replacement workers for its head office to replace the 200 employees, who have been on strike since July 7. It also says it will […] Read more
Grain Services Union head calls foul over Viterra replacement workers
Canada’s 14th mad cow found in Alta.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A six-year-old beef cow from an Alberta farm is Canada’s 14th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Friday. CFIA said in a release that this latest case shouldn’t affect exports of Canadian cattle or beef, though the cow was born well after Ottawa imposed its 1997 ban on the […] Read more
Amendments end KVD on wheat imports
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal government has changed its Seeds Regulations to take the kernel visual distinguishability (KVD) requirements off imports of wheat seed into Western Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced Friday that the amendments were published in the Aug. 6 Canada Gazette, Part II. The amendments repeal the KVD requirements for wheat imported into […] Read more
N.S., P.E.I. ag income at “rock bottom”: report
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new study on farm economic viability in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island finds the two provinces’ farmers “now earning less than at any time in the last four decades.” That, in turn, leaves the provinces’ rural communities at serious risk, according to the report released Friday by GPI Atlantic, a non-profit think tank […] Read more
Deere to expand Regina parts centre
Reading Time: < 1 minute Deere and Co. plans to boost the capacities of its parts depots in Regina as well as in three U.S. locations, making Regina a regional parts centre for the machinery firm. The company said in a release Friday that it plans to expand its primary parts distribution centre at Milan, Ill., west of Chicago near […] Read more
Clock ticking on Chicago rail deal: CN
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian National Railway (CN) wants U.S. rail regulators to approve its proposed takeover of a Chicago-area shortline, then hold the environmental review later, to keep the deal from dying. CN on Friday said it has asked the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) to take a “new approach” to CN’s proposal to buy the Elgin, Joliet […] Read more
Ag tires rolled into Ont. recycling plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new program expected to recycle at least 90 per cent of Ontario’s used tires by its fifth year of operation will include farm and off-road tires. The Ontario government on Thursday announced it has asked Waste Diversion Ontario, a non-Crown corporation set up by the province in 2002 to run waste diversion programs, to […] Read more
Wheat Growers defend Alta. CWB report
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board’s critique last week of a recent study of its performance in world wheat and barley markets has come under fire in a review of its review. The study, prepared by Informa Economics for the pro-deregulation Alberta government and released late last month, claimed Prairie farmers would receive substantially higher returns for […] Read more
Sask. farmers post thousands more hail claims
Reading Time: < 1 minute An unusually heavy year for crop hail claims in Saskatchewan got heavier in the past two weeks with 5,000 more claims filed, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. About 15,500 claims have now been filed with hail insurers that do business in Saskatchewan, the Prairie hail insurers’ group said Thursday in its biweekly report. […] Read more
Cancer conference to focus on pesticides
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agricultural pesticides will be under the microscope at a conference to be hosted by the Canadian Cancer Society Nov. 12 and 13 in Toronto. “Exploring the Connection A State of the Science Conference on Pesticides and Cancer” will feature speakers from around the world who have expertise in assessing pesticide exposure and cancer risk […] Read more
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