Protection against respiratory ailments in farm children may begin in the womb, according to early findings of the Wisconsin Infant Study Cohort. The ongoing study, which is comparing 100 farm and 100 non-farm families in that state, started as a pilot project in 2012 to discover what factors in a farm environment are contributing to […] Read more
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Horticultural producers reject proposed neonic ban
Health Canada wants to ban the use of a common insecticide, but a representative of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association says the decision is deeply flawed. On Wednesday Health Canada released a proposal to phase out the use of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide widely used by fruit and vegetable growers across the country. […] Read more
Purebred cattle featured on Day 3 of Agribition
Purebred beef shows and sales begin today at Canadian Western Agribition. Speckle Park, Simmental, Gelbvieh and Maine Anjou are all in the show ring. The Angus Masterpiece Sale and Speckle Park and Simmental sales also go today. Pro rodeo returns to Agribition tonight for the first of four performances, and the heavyweight division of the […] Read more
Wandering calf kicks off Day 2 of Agribition
A bull calf went for an early morning stroll down Regina’s Dewdney Avenue today after bolting from the grounds at Canadian Western Agribition. Show chief executive officer Chris Lane said the calf crossed busy Lewvan Drive and headed west, spending a little time in a backyard and ending up nearly at the RCMP Depot before […] Read more
Beef sector faces labour crunch: report
The labour shortage in beef production could reach 12,000 workers by 2025, says a new report on Canada’s agricultural labour market. This morning the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) released a research paper titled, Agriculture 2025: How the Sector’s Labour Challenges Will Shape its Future (PDF format). CAHRC based the report on a survey […] Read more
Brand burning kicks off Agribition
Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame inductee John Willmott burned the brand to officially open the 46th Canadian Western Agribition Nov. 21. Willmott, 82, ranches near Pense, Sask., where he moved from Ontario in 1974 after attending the first Agribition as a judge. He has served on the executives of 19 agricultural organizations, including Agribition, Canada’s […] Read more
VIDEO: It’s official: Harvesting Hope threshing bee broke world record
The 8,000 people who attended Harvesting Hope July 31 can now know they indeed saw the world antique threshing record set. They can also know that they saw an event that raised $134,000 for alleviating world hunger and preserving Canadian farm history. Guinness World Records has certified that the 139 antique threshing machines that finished […] Read more
Farm puts out welcome mat
HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. — Lyndon Drefs once tried to use his bale processor as a snow-making machine, but it didn’t work. The processor wouldn’t throw snow as far as he wanted while trying to augment the toboggan hill at EC Bar Ranch Adventures. Drefs and his wife, Denise, are gradually developing the agri-tourism aspect of […] Read more
VIDEO: Farmers’ dream takes flight
FAIRVIEW, Alta. — The crucial ingredient was farmer ingenuity. That’s what it took to move a broken, 20,000-pound former warplane with a 104-foot wingspan from remote Sitigi Lake near Inuvik, N.W.T., to a farm in Fairview, Alta. The plane is the Canso PBY-5A, and six farmers plus numerous other volunteers have been working to get […] Read more
Live life to the fullest, says busy farm mom
It doesn’t matter if you’re a farm wife in Scandia, Alta., Steinbach, Man. or Scranton, N.D., all farm wives are in the same boat together, said North Dakota farmer Katie Dilse. Dilse, who spoke at the Connect, the Heart of the Farm conference in Saskatoon on Nov. 3, said farming wives share many of the […] Read more
