REUTERS — Beyond Meat has engaged with a group of bondholders to initiate discussions about a balance-sheet restructuring, the Wall Street Journal reported. The group of bondholders, which has interests in Beyond Meat’s $1.1 billion of convertible notes, is working with law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld on the restructuring, said the news […] Read more
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Aussie Bayer suit dismissed
CANBERRA, Aus. (Reuters) — An Australian judge recently dismissed a class action lawsuit claiming Bayer’s Roundup herbicide can cause a type of blood cancer. The company said it would seek to leverage the ruling in similar cases being fought in the United States. More than 1,000 people had joined the lawsuit, claiming Roundup’s active ingredient, […] Read more
Trip to Rwanda shows conservation ag benefits
Foodgrains bank employees found that applying techniques to Africa’s challenging production conditions tripled yields
An image of two plants is imprinted in Luke Lorentz’s mind after his recent trip to Rwanda. They’re either sweet potatoes or cassava. One was grown with conservation agriculture techniques and one was grown without. The latter plant produced a few stringy vines and two small tubers. The other one, grown using conservation agriculture techniques, […] Read more
Cover crops pose challenge for Prairie farmers
Practice called difficult, although not impossible, within existing production systems such as herbicide-tolerant canola
Glacier FarmMedia – Cover crops can provide benefits, but incorporating them into other cropping systems, especially when growing herbicide-tolerant crops including canola, can be a challenge. That’s the topic of the latest research by Yvonne Lawley, an associate professor in the University of Manitoba plant science department. She was the key speaker at a July […] Read more
Artificial intelligence research receives funding boost
Manitoba’s Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative receives $2 million funding boost from government
Glacier FarmMedia – The Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative (EMILI) has been granted $2 million in government funding to help drive innovation in Manitoba agriculture. The funding announcement coincided with the July 25 grand opening of its Innovation Farms Centre 20 minutes northwest of Winnipeg. “Manitoba farmers and producers are a critical part of […] Read more
Alta. farm joins Treaty Land Sharing Network
The network is a partnership between landowners and Indigenous people intended to make access to land easier
Indigenous people and settlers gathered July 6 at Brenda Bohmer’s grain farm near Bawlf, Alta., to celebrate the opening of the Treaty Land Sharing Network in Alberta. It marked expansion of the network from Saskatchewan into the western part of Treaty 6, also known as central Alberta. “Many people, especially those of us who are […] Read more
Research looks to improve information on irrigated flax
Most previous flax research has focused on dryland production, which a new study in Saskatchewan hopes to rectify
Flax performs well under pivot, says an irrigation specialist from Saskatchewan, but little research has been done to support the practice. Sara Ingell, an irrigation agrologist with the provincial agriculture ministry, said there’s good flax research, but it’s not relevant for irrigation. Most of the past research and demonstration work has mainly focused on dryland […] Read more
New technology increases irrigation efficiency
Research in Saskatchewan has found that using multispectral and thermal data can eliminate user input and save time
Variable rate systems are commonly associated with seeding or fertilizer application, but it’s also used in the world of irrigation. Those attending the Outlook Irrigation Field Day held last month near Outlook, Sask., heard about recent advancements with variable rate irrigation (VRI) systems that can lead to a more economical and sustainable use of water […] Read more
U.S. farm workers cultivate heat safety standards
A group that works with workers in southern states sets up the Fair Food Program, which includes heat-related measures
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Heat records have repeatedly been toppled in recent weeks, just when farms in some of the hottest parts of the United States are at their busiest. That worries Lupe Gonzalo. “A lot of places in the field, you don’t have access to shade, to clean and fresh drinking water,” said […] Read more
Farming north of 60 requires self-sufficiency
Former Alberta producers grow wheat, oats, peas, barley, camelina, canola and a wide variety of vegetables in the Yukon
WHITEHORSE — Thirty kilometres from Whitehorse, amid the mountains and the forest, canola is blooming bright yellow. The colour is unexpected, unlike the Prairies where it is so common. Yukon Grain Farm has been growing Polish varieties for the last four years. It’s a value-added proposition for the operation, which has a small crusher and […] Read more
