Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatchewan’s regional colleges are to become home to new training programs for workers on the province’s farms, starting with a crop production course in March. The provincial and federal governments on Wednesday launched the pilot for an Agricultural Operator Program: three modules on seeding, spraying/scouting and harvest, to be delivered at Parkland Regional College in […] Read more
Sask. launches pilot for farm worker training program
P+H backs away from deal for Owen Sound port
Reading Time: < 1 minute Talks for grain company Parrish and Heimbecker to take over the federally-operated Lake Huron port of Owen Sound, Ont., where it already runs a grain terminal, have sunk with no deal. The port, on Georgian Bay, is one of 34 “regional/local” ports in Canada now managed by Transport Canada’s port programs directorate, which is tasked […] Read more
Ont. hog industry backed for added biosecurity measures
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario hog producers can expect new public funding to help step up biosecurity at “critical points,” following the arrival of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in the province on at least two farms. The provincial government on Tuesday pledged $2 million for Ontario Pork to back “industry-wide investments to improve biosecurity measures at critical […] Read more
Parrish and Heimbecker seeking Weyburn Inland Terminal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Grain handler Parrish and Heimbecker plans to buy its way further into southeastern Saskatchewan’s grain handle with a $94.6 million all-cash deal for farmer-owned Weyburn Inland Terminal. Winnipeg-based P+H on Friday announced an “arrangement agreement” with WIT in which the grain firm would buy up all WIT’s issued and outstanding shares for $17.25 each, about […] Read more
GM alfalfa protested at seed meeting
Reading Time: < 1 minute A group opposed to genetic modification of seeds says it will protest outside the Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) annual meeting in Quebec City today. The CSTA says it has offered to meet with the protesters, but they have declined. The protest is organized by Vigilance OGM, a Quebec-based group which last week announced the […] Read more
Grain farmers hail rail freight service enforcement
Reading Time: 4 minutes Law tabled Tuesday may impose arbitrated service pacts, fines for violations
Behlen and Sakundiak now Meridian
Reading Time: < 1 minute Meridian Manufacturing and Winnipeg-based parent company WGI have announced that effective Jan. 1, all agricultural products manufactured by Behlen Industries, Sakundiak Equipment and Meridian Manufacturing will be branded Meridian. “Our new product line will now include a full offering of SmoothWall hopper bins, bulk seed tenders, augers and conveyors, commercial and oilfield tanks, fuel tanks, […] Read more
Ritz to shave his moustache during Movember
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has accepted the challenge from Canada’s poultry and egg farmers to shave his moustache in support of prostate cancer awareness and men’s mental health. Chicken Farmers of Canada, Canadian Hatching Egg Producers, Egg Farmers of Canada and Turkey Farmers of Canada issued the challenge in recognition of Movember, the public campaign […] Read more
CFIA fertilizer efficacy testing optional, for now
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agency to focus only on product safety starting in 2013
CROP CHECKUP: Potential for four generations of diamondbacks
Reading Time: < 1 minute In his weekly Call of the Land report Alberta Agriculture pest specialist Scott Meers says that diamondback moths could be a season-long threat, especially in southern Alberta where emergence was so early this year. The first adults of the new generation have been spotted around Lethbridge this week. "This is really early, these generations will […] Read more
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