Tracy Tjaden

Canadian honey producers are finding themselves in a sticky situation. Concern is spreading in Europe over the safety of food derived from genetically altered crops, including Canadian-grown transgenic canola. Paul Belisle, the president of BeeMaid Honey in Winnipeg, said the problem started in January when distributors of Canadian honey in Germany asked producers to come […] Read more

An Alberta pork broker that went belly up just six months after the province deregulated the hog marketing industry likely won’t be able to pay its producer clients. Lethbridge-based Landmark Pork Ltd. is going out of business due to financial trouble, a company spokesperson confirmed. Landmark sold Alberta and Saskatchewan hogs to the United States. […] Read more

The world is still a few years away from growing its food in space, 10-year old Byron Moffatt predicts. The Weyburn, Sask. student was one of more than 60,000 Grade 4, 5 and 6 students from across Canada who took part in a science experiment where they planted two canola seeds – a regular one […] Read more

It’s just past noon and the tables at Dick Wong’s cafe in Saltcoats, Sask. are filling up. Local farmers and townspeople order the special, and then chat about the weather, compare seeding conditions and wonder if their neighbors in flooded southern Manitoba will get a crop in. Those looking for election hype won’t find it […] Read more

One second doesn’t sound like much, but it means everything to Ross Bentley. When he’s hugging the curves of a racetrack at speeds of 300 kilometres per hour, the Indy car driver can cover the length of a football field in one second. Bentley, who has been racing the world sports car circuit and the […] Read more

There must be a better way, Brett Wagar thought. Two weeks ago, the west-central Saskatchewan farmer contacted the two seed cleaning plants closest to his farm, both more than 100 kilometres away, to get his canola seed cleaned. He’s still waiting. But now the waiting has been made a little easier by a consulting company’s […] Read more

Larry Ratz’s combine is on its last legs. But the London, Ont. cash crop farmer has vowed to keep it going long enough to weigh every option before deciding how to replace it. To lease or to buy ? It’s a question many farmers struggle with, but few manage to pin down an easy answer. […] Read more

Manitoba farmers are divided over the prospect of purchasing fuel through a single buyer. All Things Energy is an Edmonton-based company that sets up fuel-buying groups to get lower prices. The company brought the proposal to the annual meeting of Manitoba’s largest farm lobby group, Keystone Agricultural Producers, in January. Charles Fossay, a Starbuck farmer […] Read more

Flood relief for victims of southern Manitoba’s Red River disaster continues to pour in from across the country. A group of unemployed fishermen from New Brunswick are going to Manitoba to help with the flood cleanup; a Montreal business is sending a truckload of cleaning products to the flood-ravaged region; a Calgary man who won […] Read more

Hog processors in Canada are dashing to top up Japanese orders for chilled pork after Taiwan’s hog industry crashed following an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease. Japan, the world’s largest pork importer, is continuing its ban on Taiwanese pork issued after the March 21 outbreak. Jim Morris, head of Canada’s hog promotion group Canada Pork International, […] Read more