Reading Time: < 1 minute Governments have expanded and extended the Canada-Saskatchewan Feed Program available to the province's livestock producers. Ten rural municipalities have been added to the area eligible for the initial $150 per head payment, and the application deadline has been extended to March 15.
Sask. livestock drought program extended
Ten RMs added to area eligible for per-head payment, application deadline lengthened
Farmers demand incentives for environmental changes
A final strategy was to be released in late 2023 but feds now say it will be sometime this year
Reading Time: 2 minutes A federal environmental strategy for the agriculture sector should be viewed through an economic lens, says a report from consultations on the proposed Sustainable Agriculture Strategy.
Robinson named to Senate
Former CFA president brings agricultural and business acumen to Canada’s upper house
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mary Robinson, former president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, has been appointed to the Senate.
GSU accepts Viterra offer
Wages see a slight improvement but union says they hope to build on it in next contract
Reading Time: < 1 minute Members of the Grain and General Services Union who work for Viterra have voted to accept the company's latest contract offer.
Court remedy sought for unfulfilled contracts
Sask. company claims equipment breakdown at a third-party mill caused it to declare force majeure on contracted oats
Reading Time: 2 minutes More than two dozen farmers are moving ahead with legal action against Purely Canada Foods after it failed to honour contracts for gluten-free oats. The dispute centres on 2022 gluten-free oat contracts. On March 1, 2023, the company sent a letter to the farmers saying it was voiding the contracts because oat processing machinery had failed the previous fall and it couldn’t accept the crop.
Viterra workers suspend strike to vote on new offer
Workers will be working to rule during the voting period
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, Grain and General Services Union workers employed by Viterra in Saskatchewan said they will vote on the grain handling company's latest final offer over the next two weeks. Locals 1 and 2, representing country operations and head office staff, respectively, were set to walk out at 2 p.m. today if a deal had not been reached.
Hepworth honoured for agricultural achievements
The London, Ont. resident started as a Sask. farmer and vet before moving to politics, then research
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lorne Hepworth, former Saskatchewan agriculture minister and current chair of the Agriculture Research Institute of Ontario, has been named a member of the Order of Canada.
Farmgate milk price hike delayed to May
Stakeholders say increase should be postponed amid food inflation concerns
Reading Time: < 1 minute The farmgate price of milk will go up May 1, 2024, rather than Feb. 1, after a review of the national pricing formula and consultation with stakeholders. The increase will be 1.77 per cent, or about 1.5 cents per litre for milk going into processing plants, the Canadian Dairy Commission said Wednesday. The commission had […] Read more
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