CALGARY – Dairy herd records are being turned over to a privately run organization. Canadian Dairy Network is an industry run organization which will handle milk recording services and genetic evaluation records of animals across the country. Located in Guelph, Ont., the network has written a business plan to ensure sufficient income to run the […] Read more
Barbara Duckworth
Stories by Barbara Duckworth
Feed grains get connected to satellite auction network
CALGARY – An auction is normally thought of as a place to buy anything from a priceless work of art to a prize winning beef cow. Now it’s possible to buy feed grains. Every second Friday, producers tuning their satellite dishes in to regular televised livestock auctions can also bid on consignments of feed grains […] Read more
SPCA to revise teaching manual after agricultural groups complain
CALGARY – A teacher’s manual compiled by the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be rewritten following concerns raised by the livestock industry. The 50-page resource manual for Grades 7-12 was distributed to about 100 teachers at conventions and through the mail. It was released for the first time last spring […] Read more
Alberta unveils safety net program
CALGARY – The Alberta government has announced a provincial farm safety net program for the 1995 tax year. Known as the Farm Income Stability Program (FISP), it’s a low cost, voluntary program which covers all agricultural commodities and offers protection to beginning farmers against abnormal income declines. Any farmer in Alberta is eligible and may […] Read more
CWB speaker faces pro-open market crowd
STRATHMORE, Alta. – During the harvest of 1923, Jim Miller’s father traveled the countryside gathering farmer pledges to support the fledgling Alberta Wheat Pool. The elder Miller also supported the concept of a wheat board. Co-operation among farmers who pooled their grain and accepted an average price through a central buying agency seemed like a […] Read more
Black Angus boosted in Ontario
CALGARY – Canadian Angus beef may soon be invited to dinner at more Toronto restaurants. With the signing of Better Beef Limited as a licensed processor, the Guelph meat plant will help the Canadian Angus Association expand its branded beef program into restaurants and retail outlets across the country. Penny Young of the association said […] Read more
U.S. farmers union says Canada should retain wheat board
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Almost every day, Art Adamson watches truckloads of Canadian grain pass by his Montana farm. While Adamson and his neighbors don’t like the sight of Saskatchewan or Alberta licence plates at local grain elevators, he admits if he could get a top price in Canada for his wheat or barley he’d […] Read more
U.S. farm union hopes for presidential veto on ag cuts
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – With proposed cuts of $13.4 billion (U.S.) to the United States agriculture budget over the next seven years, American farmers are warned to expect tough times ahead. A Republican dominated Congress, which includes the House of Representatives and the Senate, approved a bill Oct. 26 to balance the total American budget […] Read more
Canadian NFU head extends olive branch
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Carrying a message of goodwill to the United States, the president of the Canadian National Farmers Union mended some fences at the Montana Farmers’ Union convention here. With assurances she brought no grain or cattle with her to sell, Nettie Wiebe said farmers face the same challenges no matter where they […] Read more
Japanese cattle win in taste, tenderness
CALGARY – They may not look like the big, beefy cattle usually seen roaming the range, but the little Japanese Wagyu is measuring up where it counts in carcass tests in Canada and the United States. Carcass tests recently completed at Lethbridge Research Station using Wagyu bred cattle topped North American bred cattle with 82 […] Read more
