Mary MacArthur

The list of needs for rural women is long. Rural women need more money, more career choices, more training, better access to government programs, better health care, better access to the internet, improved child care and more support in their rural life, showed a survey of more than 500 rural women in central Alberta. Finding […] Read more

After a day-long workshop, the women at a rural women’s conference were standing on their chairs doing war whoops that wouldn’t be out of place at a hockey arena. The more than 100 women had been broken into four teams and were cheering on their teammates who were using a child’s golf club as they […] Read more

Rumours of the American border opening early to live Canadian cattle under 30 months are not true, says a United States government official. Ed Curlett, public affairs specialist with the United States Department of Agriculture animal plant and health inspection service said there has been no fast tracking of the rules to allow live Canadian […] Read more

For Tony Evans, cold weather isn’t a sign of winter; it’s the beginning of a four-month fight to keep wild deer and elk away from his precious stacks of hay. Evans said that last year he counted 400 elk in the hay stack on his farm near Spirit River, Alta., and in the past four […] Read more

Alberta hunters are being asked to submit the heads of elk and deer as part of a search for chronic wasting disease in two areas of the province where it is thought the disease would most likely occur. The sixth annual hunter survey is a way for Alberta Sustainable Resource Development officials to check for […] Read more

EDMONTON – The case of the cow with BSE could be a novel written by British mystery novelist Agatha Christie. Instead, it’s a true-life story that Canadian veterinarians had to deduce in a race against time. Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff had few clues when they got the call May 16, just before the Victoria […] Read more

More than $500 million has been spent to aid feedlot operators in Alberta since it was announced that bovine spongiform encephalopathy had been discovered, said an Alberta Agriculture official. One federal program and three provincial programs are expected to offer some compensation for all of the animals that were on feed in Alberta feedlots as […] Read more

ST. PAUL, Alta. – Like a schoolteacher taking attendance, each week Edith Fontaine takes a roll call of every one of the more than 750 animals on her farm. With a colored highlighter pen, Fontaine takes a good look at each animal and then crosses out its ear tag number on a photo copied sheet […] Read more

Alberta farmers who got hay last year from Eastern Canada now are donating feed to help British Columbia ranchers doubly hurt by drought and fire, said a man organizing the donations. “We were on the receiving end last year. Kamloops has not only had drought but fires,” said Ben Penner, who hopes to ship 1,000 […] Read more

A new Alberta government BSE assistance program will cover another 200,000 cattle that were in Alberta feedlots as of May 20. “We’re hearing from smaller producers that they didn’t have an opportunity to participate in previous programs. It appears there are still some fed cattle out there that we need to cover. We made a […] Read more