Reading Time: 2 minutes Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are underway in much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to those provinces’ weekly crop reports filed Monday. Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry reports fall rye and winter wheat are six per cent harvested, with pea crops seven per cent harvested and one per cent of lentils off. The winter wheat and […] Read more
Sask., Man. winter wheat harvests underway
Two cattle die of anthrax in Sask.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed two more fatal cases of anthrax in cattle in two different communities in Saskatchewan. The most recent case was confirmed Monday in the Rural Municipality of Big River, about 130 km northwest of Prince Albert. CFIA also confirmed a case on Saturday in the RM of Harris, about […] Read more
Scotiabank launches new ag financing products
Reading Time: < 1 minute Scotiabank has launched a new farm credit suite and new farm banking package for Canadian farmers that it says will help them respond more quickly to shifting markets and opportunities. Scotia Flex for agriculture, announced Monday, provides farming and agribusiness customers with the ability to customize their farm credit needs from a suite of credit […] Read more
Man. farmers’ group to buy CPR track
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmer-owned Boundary Trail Railway Co. Inc. has reached a deal with Canadian Pacific Railway to keep almost 40 km of CPR track in southern Manitoba from being torn up for scrap. The 37.4 km involved had been part of CPR’s La Riviere subdivision, from Binney Corner (near St. Leon, about 90 km south of Portage […] Read more
Agrium to buy rather than build in Egypt
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium, stymied by public opposition to its plans for a joint-venture urea plant on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, will instead take a stake in a new plant already built nearby, with plans to expand it. In a deal announced Monday with the Egyptian government, EAgrium, the joint venture between the Calgary company, three […] Read more
CWB rips Alta. single desk report
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Alberta government report that seeks to discredit the claimed economic merits of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk uses “false assumptions and selective data” to undermine the CWB’s value, according to the board’s CEO. “This study is badly flawed,” Ian White said in a CWB release Friday. “The authors have made sweeping assumptions […] Read more
P.E.I. farm leader named to NFPC
Reading Time: < 1 minute John Griffin, president of the W.P. Griffin farm on Prince Edward Island, has been named to the National Farm Products Council (NFPC) for a four-year term. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced Griffin’s appointment Friday, saying his “knowledge and experience as an innovative leader in Canadian agribusiness will prove invaluable as the council continues its […] Read more
Monsanto looks to sell BST
Reading Time: < 1 minute Monsanto has announced that it is pursuing a divestiture of its bovine somatotropin (BSt) dairy hormone, sold under the trade name Posilac. Monsanto says cows supplemented with Posilac produce an average of 10 lb. more milk per day. “While Posilac is a strong product for the business, we believe repositioning the business with a strategic […] Read more
Malting Barley Values Down in Mid-Month PRO
Reading Time: < 1 minute Due to uncertainty in malting barley prices as harvest progresses, the Canadian Wheat Board has issued a special mid-month malting barley Pool Return Outlook (PRO) for the 2008-09 crop year. Projected values are down $15 per tonne from the July 24, 2008 PRO. The Select CW two-row is projected at $345 per tonne ($7.51/bu), down […] Read more
Sask ag ministry sees rapid armyworm emergence in July
Reading Time: < 1 minute Saskatchewan Agriculture has observed little emergence of Bertha armyworm in June but higher temperatures resulted in rapid emergence in July. The provincial ag deparment monitors the emergence of Bertha armyworm moths during the growing season using a pheromone trapping system. The accompanying map displays the cumulative male moth counts collected in traps set up in […] Read more
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