Reading Time: < 1 minute Last winter’s snowfall and wet conditions in parts of the Prairies may lead to exposed anthrax spores on pasture land, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned Wednesday. CFIA has already confirmed its first cases of anthrax this spring on a farm in the Rural Municipality of King George, southeast of Rosetown, Sask. The cases were […] Read more
Get ahead of anthrax exposure: CFIA
Growmark fined for worker injury on conveyor
Reading Time: < 1 minute Injuries to a worker whose arm was pulled into a moving conveyor belt at a fertilizer storage site will cost ag co-op Growmark $80,000, an Ontario court ruled Tuesday. The fine was levied Tuesday in a provincial court in Brockville, relating to a November 2006 incident at the storage facility at Kemptville, about 50 km […] Read more
Potash One moves to TSX
Reading Time: < 1 minute Potash One, a Vancouver firm with potash permits in southern Saskatchewan, has moved from the TSX Venture Exchange to the TSX, under the symbol KCL. The company, whose 52-week low on the TSXV was 80 cents, began trading on the TSX Wednesday and was trading at $5.54 per share that afternoon. “A TSX listing will […] Read more
CWB launches online weather centre
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board’s partnership with U.S. weather data firm WeatherBug has gone to the next step with the launch of a new online weather centre for Prairie farmers. The new weather centre, launched Wednesday at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina, gives subscribing farmers the ability to manage data from the CWB/WeatherBug […] Read more
Don’t delay biofuel bill, GGC warns
Reading Time: 2 minutes Any more delay on Ottawa’s bill to set up minimum biofuel content for Canadian fuels could cost some development in Canada’s biofuel production sector, the Grain Growers of Canada warned Wednesday. Bill C-33, which the House of Commons passed in late May, would require all gasoline sold in Canada to contain five per cent ethanol […] Read more
Performance Plants takes biofuel work to U.S.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ontario biotech firm Performance Plants plans to develop feedstock crops for cellulose ethanol at a new research centre in New York state. The Kingston, Ont. company said Wednesday it has established an “American Research Center” at Waterloo, N.Y., about 75 km west of Syracuse, to develop “specialized non-food crops for industries seeking renewable feedstocks for […] Read more
Former N.S. ag minister Ed Lorraine, 80
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ed Lorraine, a Colchester County cattle producer who was Nova Scotia’s agriculture minister from 1997 to 1999, died early Wednesday morning at age 80, the provincial government reported. “Mr. Lorraine was not only a tremendous representative for his constituency but was an invaluable advocate for the agricultural community during his time in government and throughout […] Read more
Senate urges action on ag inputs, rural affairs
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Senate’s standing committee on agriculture recommends the federal government step in to address the rising costs of farm inputs, and to raise rural affairs’ profile in national policy. In separate reports released Tuesday — one on rural poverty, the other on the cost of farm inputs — the committee respectively called for the […] Read more
Suncor to boost Ont. ethanol plant capacity
Reading Time: < 1 minute Suncor Energy has announced it will spend $120 million to double the capacity of its St. Clair corn ethanol plant near Sarnia, Ont. The facility has been operating since July 2006 and is now the largest ethanol plant in Canada, with capacity of 200 million litres per year, the company said in a release Thursday. […] Read more
Atlantic ag ministers eye development plan
Reading Time: < 1 minute Atlantic Canada’s agriculture ministers say they’ve agreed to work toward a “more co-operative” approach on issues of shared interest and plan to talk more about formalizing that approach. Meeting Monday in Little Rapids, near Corner Brook, Nfld., the four ministers agreed to “further explore the concept of an Atlantic provinces’ memorandum of understanding (MOU) for […] Read more