Reading Time: 2 minutes Health officials have confirmed that the strain of bird flu that hospitalized a B.C. teenager in critical condition is related to the same virus causing outbreaks in the province’s poultry.
Virus in B.C. human bird flu case genetically related to farm strain
Second opinion on grain grade available: Canadian Grain Commission
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers can ask for a final quality determination from the Canadian Grain Commission if they disagree with their grain grade or other quality assessment from the elevator
U.S. farm bill, biofuels and vCOOL among American trends worth watching FCC says
Reading Time: 2 minutes Voluntary country of origin labelling (vCOOL) for beef and pork, biofuel tax credit changes, and an impending U.S. farm bill are three U.S. agriculture trends worth watching according to recent analysis from Farm Credit Canada (FCC).
Canada, First Nations agree on unmet agricultural claims
Reading Time: 2 minutes A handful of specific agricultural benefit claims between the federal government and nine First Nations were settled on Friday.
Once fully settled, these claims—unmet promises in treaties 5, 6 and 10 territories throughout the Prairie provinces—will represent almost $1.4 billion in combined compensation to these First Nations.
Canadian Grain Commission predicts financial shortfall
Reading Time: < 1 minute In a release Oct. 16, the organization said that “Since the Canadian Grain Commission reduced its official inspection and weighing fees in 2021, the organization has inspected and weighed lower-than-expected grain volumes, leading to a gap between revenue and costs.”
Legal drone spraying takes step closer to reality
CFIA says the work that is ongoing to satisfy federal regulatory authorities is moving faster than previously anticipated
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – The ray of hope might be dim right now, but farmers wanting to legally spray pesticides on their crops using drones may be seeing the first hint of light at the end of the tunnel. Ross Breckels, a senior scientific evaluator with Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), said the process […] Read more
Combine market holding, for now
Reading Time: 2 minutes According to a recent news release from Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation, higher combine prices do not yet appear to have affected their sales in Canada.
Cereal leaf disease minimal in Alberta but be aware of blown-in stripe rust
Reading Time: < 1 minute The province received variable precipitation this spring which had pathologists and producers expecting the arrival of members of the leaf spot complex. However, Kelly Turkington with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lacombe Research and Development Centre said they may have been scorched by the July heat wave.
Back to normal for cereal leaf disease in Saskatchewan
Reading Time: 2 minutes Precipitation has more or less returned to normal in Saskatchewan, but that also means cereal growers need to be more aware of leaf and other diseases, says a plant pathologist.
Seed growers offer proof that new varieties will work, says SeCan manager
Reading Time: 2 minutes Todd Hyra can't speak for the entire grain industry, but as far as SeCan is concerned, its western business manager says there's no such thing as a
'Version 2.0" of any of the varieties it distributes.
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