Glacier FarmMedia – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan — Earlier this week, the Canadian Cattle Foundation presented the second annual Reg Schellenberg Next Generation Legacy Award to B.C. rancher Cassie Marchand. Reg Schellenberg, former president of the Canadian Cattle Association, died suddenly in December 2022. In lieu of flowers, the Schellenberg family requested that donations be made through […] Read more
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Teamsters issue strike notice to CN, CPKC stoppage ongoing
UPDATED: 0930 CST – August 23, 2024 – Glacier FarmMedia – The union representing Canadian National workers has issued a strike notice to the company, effective Monday. This comes after the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) said this morning that workers at Canadian National (CN) would be headed back to work today. Related stories: WP […] Read more
Nova Scotia ranchers snag environmental award at Canadian Beef Industry Conference
Glacier FarmMedia – Holdanca Farms from Nova Scotia is this year’s recipient of The Environmental Stewardship Award (TESA), it was announced on at the banquet of the Canadian Beef Industry Conference this week. Holdanca Farms is located near Wallace Bay, N.S., and is owned and operated by the father-daughter duo of John and Maria Duynisveld. […] Read more
Federal government intervenes to end rail lockout with binding arbitration
Glacier FarmMedia – Federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon has intervened in the labour dispute between the railways and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC). The minister said he hoped trains would be moving again “within days.” Related stories: WP rail stoppage coverage He added that he couldn’t be more specific due to the involvement of […] Read more
Humidity often overlooked but potentially severe
One summer weather event is regularly overlooked but potentially severe: humidity. By its simplest definition, humidity is the amount of water vapour in the air. The warmer the air, the greater the distance between air molecules and therefore the greater the holding capacity of air for water vapour. Warm air has the capacity to hold […] Read more
Cargill plans overhaul after earnings fall short of targets
An internal company document says less than a third of the firm’s businesses met their earnings goal in fiscal 2024
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Global trading house Cargill will undergo structural changes after missing internal earnings goals, with plans to streamline operations into three units instead of five, according to an internal company document seen by Reuters and two company sources. Agricultural merchants like privately held Cargill face challenges as prices of the commodity crops they […] Read more
Bayer earnings take a hit
FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) — Bayer has posted a 16.5 percent drop in quarterly adjusted earnings, becoming the latest agricultural chemical supplier to be hit by weak demand due to lower grains prices. The development added to the chief executive officer’s challenges in his second year in the job. Bayer boss Bill Anderson has launched a […] Read more
Research goes molecular on potash clumping
Imaging technology in Saskatchewan captures why and how potash clumps, which can be a problem for Prairie farmers
Glacier FarmMedia – Potash clumping is a problem for farmers, but few producers or researchers know why it happens on the molecular level. Lifeng Zhang, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, has been studying particle bridges within potash that lead to clumping or caking. The hope is that insight from […] Read more
Quick response for field fires
Ryan Flaman normally doesn’t sell display units out of the Ag in Motion show booth, but the Montana farmer was insistent. “I said, ‘whoa, I can’t really deliver this to you on the weekend, can I? So how do we do this? That one’s actually sold already,’” he says. “So then we got creative; we […] Read more
Farm consolidation drives big bin trend
Take a drive in the country in many parts of Western Canada and you’re likely to see some truly immense grain storage facilities, some with stairs spiraling around to the top of corrugated steel giants many metres tall. Paul Brisebois, senior vice-president for Canada with grain storage and handling company AGI, says the trend to […] Read more
