Reading Time: 2 minutes A Senate committee amendment to supply management protection bill Bill C-282 means it will be vulnerable to an opposition filibuster if it makes it back to the House of Commons.
Senate amendment to Bill C-282 could render it useless
Report finds 6.8 billion litres of milk discarded since 2012
Study says milk dumping should be illegal and calls for more transparency on how much surplus is produced and wasted
Reading Time: 3 minutes A study published in Ecological Economics said 6.8 billion litres of Canadian milk has been discarded since 2012.
Land values continue to rise: FCC
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farm Credit Canada’s mid-year review shows cultivated farmland values rose an average of 5.5 per cent in the first half of this year.
Senators told biosecurity bill C-275 is really about trespassing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Witnesses at last week's Senate agriculture committee meetings said a bill purporting to be about biosecurity is not about biosecurity at all.
Saskatchewan pilot hunting program to help with wildlife damage
Landowners in five rural Sask. areas will have access to more licences
Reading Time: 1 minute A new pilot program in five Saskatchewan rural municipalities is launching to help landowners deal with excessive wildlife damage. The Big Game Management Extended Hunt will occur Nov. 1-10 in the RMs of Livingstone, Hazel Dell, Kelvington, Bjorkdale and Leask.
NWT closes Unity elevator for foreseeable future
Reading Time: < 1 minute North West Terminal Ltd. in Unity, Saskatchewan, has idled its grain elevator after several years of losses.
Provincial associations commit funds to new facility
Reading Time: < 1 minute Four organizations announced funding for the planned Global Agriculture Technology Exchange in Winnipeg Sept. 17.
Researchers call for rapid adaptation to global trade environment
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada must prepare for a future featuring a less friendly trade environment, says a new policy note authored by two leading policy analysts. Al Mussell and Ted Bilyea, researchers at Agri-Food Economic Systems Research, said the recent action by China on Canadian canola illustrates their point.
Grain commission revokes Purely Canada licence
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Grain Commission has revoked the licences of Purely Canada Foods.
Jasper fires force trains to go slow
CN has resumed service but at a reduced speed through the area
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian National Railway line through Jasper, Alta,. is open, but trains are moving slowly due to the wildfire that destroyed a significant part of the community this week. The implications for grain movement are unknown, but unloads are already down at the port of Vancouver.
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
