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Reading Time: 3 minutes A now-annual study by the Prairie provinces’ general farm groups finds farmers getting a slightly larger share of a larger grocery bill. In the 2010 “Farmer’s Share” research project, commissioned by the Keystone Agricultural Producers, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Wild Rose Agricultural Producers, shopping trips for the same basket of foods on May […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Continued strength” in the offshore barley market has led to a $15 per tonne bump in the Canadian Wheat Board’s pool return outlook (PRO) for new-crop feed barley. The CWB on Friday posted a mid-month PRO for 2010-11 feed barley (Pool A), raising its outlook to $224 per tonne ($4.88 per bushel), up from $209 […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Non-profit groups or charities interested in providing safety training to farmers or agribusinesses can apply online starting next week for support through Farm Credit Canada. FCC and the Canadian Agriculture Safety Association (CASA) recently launched a new FCC Ag Safety Fund, offering a total of $100,000 to provide support for safety training programs. The fund’s […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Insurance and fire investigators will now be able to use The Weather Network’s data archive to authenticate lightning strikes as a possible cause of farm damages, power outages and forest fires. Oakville, Ont.-based Pelmorex Media, which operates The Weather Network and MeteoMedia, its French-language counterpart, on Wednesday launched an archive of lightning strike data as […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his U.S. counterpart have agreed to set up a “high-level working group” they say will advance a “science-based” approach to global ag trade. Such a group would help improve flows of ag goods between Canada and the U.S., improve “regulatory approaches” and “further strengthen the Canada-US approach to food […] Read more