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Crop management website coming for Man. farmers

Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba farmers can get ready to visit a website providing free crop-management advice from some of the province’s top agronomists. CropChatter.com, due to launch Monday, is hosted by Farm Business Communications, publisher of the Manitoba Co-operator, with co-operation from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. MAFRI crops branch staff will provide start-up consulting advice, but […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Feds name arbitrator for CP labour talks

Reading Time: < 1 minute Seven weeks after they were legislated back to work, Canadian Pacific Railway’s engineers and conductors have a federal arbitrator named to resolve their labour contract with the company. Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt on Thursday named Toronto lawyer William Kaplan to lead arbitration on a new contract between CP and the 4,800-odd railway employees represented […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Off-patent ag chem maker buys Prairie distributor

Reading Time: 2 minutes A Des Moines-area manufacturer of off-patent ag herbicides and pesticides plans to bring 16 of its wares into Canada’s West by buying a Prairie ag chemical distributor. Albaugh, Inc., which runs a manufacturing plant north of Kansas City and supplies the generic glyphosate Clearout 41 Plus in Canada through Farmers of North America (FNA), on […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Feds back merger of livestock traceability data

Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal government will put up half a million dollars to create a single national data management system for livestock traceability in Canada. Pierre Lemieux, the federal parliamentary secretary for agriculture, announced the funding for the creation of a new single system, Canadian Agri-Traceability Services (CATS), on Friday at the Calgary Stampede. CATS will provide […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

Manitoba ag lending agency lifts limits on loans

Reading Time: 2 minutes Manitoba’s provincial farm lending agency has raised its ceiling on farm loans and stripped out several of its limits on who can apply for financing and why. Manitoba Agricultural Services Corp. (MASC) announced changes to its lending mandate Thursday that "will help more farmers access long-term, fixed-rate financing and initiatives for young farmers that MASC […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Biodiesel fraud roils U.S. industry

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Jennifer Case had big plans for expansion of her small San Diego plant that turns used restaurant cooking oil into biodiesel fuel after it sold out its entire production of about 1.5 million gallons in 2011. By the end of the year, business had taken a "devastating turn," Case told lawmakers at a Capitol Hill […] Read more
Health Canada to probe wind turbine noise
General, Machinery, Weather

Health Canada to probe wind turbine noise

Reading Time: 4 minutes Health Canada plans its own primary research to paint “a more complete picture” of the potential health impacts on rural Canadians from life near wind turbine farms. The federal department on Tuesday announced it will work with Statistics Canada on a new peer-reviewed study, for completion sometime in 2014, on “the relationship between wind turbine […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Pearce: New front-boom sprayers offer several benefits

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Until now, there are those in the sprayer business who’d say the industry can be something of a pain in the neck. But that notion is set to change with the launch of the Guardian self-propelled front boom sprayer from New Holland. Technicians, specialists and sales staff from the Great Lakes New Holland dealerships at […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Morris pilots new leasing program

Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatchewan farm equipment maker Morris Industries has rolled out a pilot program offering leases on its bale carriers and heavy harrows. The Morris Leasing program, announced last week at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina, will be available on the company’s Field Pro heavy harrows and ProAg hay hauling products — and only for its […] Read more

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