FCC and safety
Farm Credit Corporation is providing $10,000 to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture Be Seen, Be Safe! campaign.
This national effort addresses the issue of highway collisions between farm equipment and motorists and encourages farmers to have proper lights, signs and reflective markings when moving equipment.
“FCC supports Be Seen, Be Safe! through a new community relations program launched earlier this year,” said FCC president John Ryan.
“Our focus is rural wellness with a particular emphasis on issues affecting agriculture. This program is designed to protect the safety of the farming community as a whole, as well as the general public is therefore a natural fit for us.”
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Canola research money
The Alberta Canola Producers Commission has announced a $500,000 agreement supporting canola research at the Lacombe and Beaverlodge research centres of Agriculture Canada.
The commission will provide at least $100,000 annually for the next five years to enhance canola breeding, pathology, agronomy and weed management.
About 17 percent of Alberta cropland was seeded to canola in 1997 and the crop ranks in the top five commodities for cash receipts and agricultural exports from the province, said an Agriculture Canada news release.
Joint program development by the commission and scientists at the research centres provides stability to research and ensures it is relevant to the industry, said the release.
Ag Canada has a $200,000 annual investment in salaries and infrastructure costs associated with canola research in Alberta.
New AWP director
Doug Parker, a farmer from Cecil Lake, B.C., has been elected to Alberta Wheat Pool’s board of directors. He fills a vacancy left when former director and AWP president Alex Graham resigned in July.
Parker has been a delegate for District 9 since August 1994. He and his wife, Gail, farm east of Fort St. John, where they grow cereals, fescue and peas.
