Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart says he hopes a few weeks of good weather are ahead to allow farmers to bring in more crop. Only 81 percent of this year’s crop is in the bin, with 15 percent more ready to be harvested. However, last week’s snow and rain stalled harvest from a week earlier […] Read more
Farm Living
Digital infrastructure stressed at finance committee hearing
Better rural broadband and income tax changes are among requests made of the federal standing committee on finance by farm leaders in Regina. The committee was on the western leg of its annual pre-budget consultations. Ray Orb, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, and Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of […] Read more
VIDEO: Agriculture dominates finance committee hearing in Winnipeg
Farmers’ needs and challenges dominated the hearings of the House of Commons finance committee when it visited Winnipeg to hear from Manitoba residents. From carbon taxes to labour force programs to the fate of the port of Churchill, farming and agriculture were presented to Liberal, Conservative and NDP members as core to the Manitoba economy. […] Read more
VIDEO: Churchill hot topic at finance committee hearing
Churchill got a lot of time in the spotlight when the House of Commons finance committee visited Manitoba Oct. 6. Broad support for finding some way to keep the port and rail line viable appeared to come from people representing municipal governments, chambers of commerce, unions and farmers. It also provided a forum for NDP […] Read more
Sask. farmers facing big, messy task
There’s good news and bad news for weather-weary farmers who are still hoping to harvest what’s left of this year’s rapidly deteriorating crop. The good news is that a significant amount of the prairie crop often comes off in October or even early November, says Daphne Cruise, provincial crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture. The bad […] Read more
Latest study finds glyphosate not cancer-causing
Yet another study is refuting the idea that glyphosate causes cancer. In a paper published online in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, four independent panels of experts looked at the relevant research on glyphosate and whether it’s carcinogenic. The group of 16 scientists, from Canada, the United States, Denmark, Brazil and the United Kingdom and other […] Read more
The hardest choice
Safeguards require that the patient:
Twenty-six Albertans have ended their lives since February, when medical assistance in dying became legal for Canadians who meet specific criteria. Nancy Campbell, co-ordinator of the MAID care team in the southern zone, has been there for some of those deaths. One man’s words stick with her. “I asked him, ‘if I had the opportunity […] Read more
Veggie growers keep up with trends
VIMY, Alta. — Coloured cauliflower is in and kale is out, say produce growers Ron and Wendy Erdmann. They, with their sons, Cody and Shane, operate Erdmann Gardens and Greenhouses in Alberta’s Westlock County. The family must keep abreast of people’s eating habits and plant accordingly each year. Next spring, the Erdmanns will drop their […] Read more
Horticulture in Canada’s north
POINTE LEBEL, Que. — When Donald Berube told the agronomist that he intended to start a commercial berry operation on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, he was advised to consider another type of enterprise for northeastern Quebec. After years of operating a nearby peat harvesting operation, he knew that his farm in […] Read more
Alberta 4-H celebrates 100 years
For an organization that is almost 100 years old, 4-H Alberta isn’t showing its age. That must be because its members have always been ages nine to 20. The youth club will celebrate its 100th birthday next year, and the southern region announced its celebratory plans Sept. 27. The 56 clubs in the southern zone, […] Read more
