UPDATED: Tuesday June 13, 2024 – 1410 CST – adds comments from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. Glacier FarmMedia – Looming changes to Canada’s capital gains inclusion rates will increase average taxes by 30 per cent on the country’s family-run grain farms, putting their futures at risk, according to research conducted by the Grain Growers […] Read more
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Which agronomy topics should we AIM at?
In the lead up to Ag In Motion, The Western Producer will be taking a closer look at agronomic problems and the solutions that will be demonstrated at the show. Tell us which crop-production topics you want to learn more about, and we’ll look into the management approaches available in Western Canada. Follow all our […] Read more
What will summer weather bring to the Prairies?
Whenever we have upper lows, like last month, it usually results in below-average temperatures. This year it was warmer than expected, though there were some below average readings. In the west, Alberta saw near to slightly below average temperatures and precipitation. Calgary reported a mean monthly temperature of 9.7 C, which is bang on the […] Read more
Hunger fight extends reach
The Western Family food brand expanded its seventh annual Share It Forward campaign this year. The program, which supports local food banks, included new retailers this year, bringing the total number of participating stores to more than 220 across Western Canada. Buy-Low Foods and Nesters Markets joined Save-On-Foods, PriceSmart Foods and Urban Fare stores by […] Read more
China backs ‘green’ jet fuel
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Biofuel firms are pouring more than $1 billion into building China’s first plants to turn waste cooking oil into aviation fuel for export and to meet domestic demand once Beijing mandates the fuel’s use on airplanes to cut emissions. China, which is he world’s second-largest aviation market with about 11 per cent […] Read more
U.S. crops off to good start, but will it last?
SASKATOON — Grain crops are off to a nice start in one of the major exporting regions of the world, but weather challenges could lie ahead. Three-quarters of the United States corn crop was rated good to excellent as of June 2. Spring wheat is one percentage point lower at 74 percent good to excellent. […] Read more
PAMI receives five-year gov’t funding increase
Recent research at the institute involves combine auto-adjustment in canola and how to limit air seeder damage in peas
Glacier FarmMedia – The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute will have $5 million in public money added to its budget for the next five years. Funds were announced May 14 from the federal government and province of Saskatchewan and are provided under the $3.5-billion Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership agreement. “The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute has a […] Read more
Program incentives boosted for marginal acre conversions
Company supports FCC and Ducks Unlimited in their efforts to convert low productivity farmland into perennial cover
Glacier FarmMedia – Ducks Unlimited Canada and Farm Credit Canada have a new partner for their sustainability initiatives. DUC announced in late May that multinational food company PepsiCo will help support FCC’s Sustainability Incentive Program. It links with DUC’s efforts to encourage producers to convert low productivity farmland into perennial cover. DUC’s Marginal Areas Program […] Read more
African-Canadians seen as untapped ag resource
Group closes gap by connecting university students with African-Canadian professors, researchers and professionals
This is the first of an occasional series looking into the pools of human talent within Canada’s population that could help fill the growing labour shortage that is crippling many farms. WINNIPEG — There are usually one or two African faces in every university and college agriculture department classroom. At most agriculture industry conferences, conventions […] Read more
Project proposed for Ontario aims to ease phosphate crisis
Proponents of a new phosphate project say it could ease Canada’s reliance on imports of a diminishing commodity
A lot of what determines what Canadian farmers pay for phosphate fertilizer and how readily they can get it happens outside of Canada’s borders. According to Stephen Case, chief executive officer and president of Fox River Resources, Canada has become completely reliant on phosphate sourced from other countries like the United States, Russia and Morocco. […] Read more
