Upgrades would increase annual throughput to five million tonnes and raise yearly rail car capacity to 500
Cargill Canada is seeking approval for a project that will expand the handling capacity of its North Vancouver grain terminal. Company officials with Cargill say the proposed project will improve rail car unloading efficiency at the terminal and increase annual throughput capacity to five million tonnes from 3.4 million tonnes. The proposed upgrades include improvements […] Read moreNews
Proposed west coast grain terminal project would expand Cargill’s presence
Vets sure of PED source in plasma
Canadian veterinarians know how porcine epidemic diarrhea got into the country, even if officials have obfuscated the fact, says a swine veterinarian. The deadly PED virus arrived in a dried porcine blood plasma product that was fed to pigs. “People like the OIE (the World Organization for Animal Health) and many others have put forward […] Read more
Cold weather raises risk of PED transfer
Hog producers are now in the riskiest time of year for getting porcine epidemic diarrhea in their barns. Canada has had 86 premises with the deadly disease in the slightly more than a year since the first case of PED was confirmed in the country. Fifteen of them have occurred this winter. PED virus travels […] Read more
Transportation issues hinder plans for oat sector expansion
Mexico is a promising market, but rail service south remains unreliable, says Prairie Oat Growers president
EDMONTON — There’s plenty of market potential for western Canadian oats, says the president of Prairie Oat Growers. However, Art Enns said there is no point finding new markets until problems getting oats to market are solved. He said last year was one of the worst winters for the industry. “There were lots of milling […] Read moreProposed reservoir may threaten farmland
Fifteen families in Springbank, Alta., are opposing government’s flood plan and construction project outside Calgary
COCHRANE, Alta. — Alberta landowners are up in arms over a project on the Elbow River to protect Calgary and other downstream communities from future floods. Premier Jim Prentice announced a dry reservoir last fall that is capable of holding 67.6 million cubic metres of water, as well as diversion canals for the Springbank region […] Read morePED vaccine available for use in Canada
Vaccines against porcine epidemic diarrhea virus are available in Canada for emergency use but are being administered in barns that are already infected. Harris Vaccines and Zoetis have products that seem to reduce severity of outbreaks in naïve herds, but they will not prevent infection, said swine veterinarian Egan Brockhoff. Speaking during a Jan. 30 […] Read more
Proposed transparency bill pleases U.S.
U.S. wheat growers are pleased that Canada’s Bill C-48 will make the open market for wheat a little more open. The proposed legislation to modernize the Canada Grain Act was introduced into the House of Commons Dec. 9. One of the legislative changes contained in the bill would make it possible for U.S. growers to […] Read more
Farm show honours weed scientist
EDMONTON — Alberta research scientist Neil Harker has been awarded the FarmTech Recognition Award for his contributions to agriculture. Harker has worked as a weed scientist at Agriculture Canada in Lacombe since 1985, specializing in no-till cropping systems, competitive crop stands, weed ecology, weed interactions with insects, canola production and canola biodiesel quality. He has […] Read more
Man. may relax rules for certain hog barns
Operations in phosphorus-deficient areas of the province may be allowed to build new barns without anaerobic digesters
Manitoba’s provincial government is taking baby steps toward relaxing its province-wide hog barn building moratorium. However, whether it will have any real effect for years is a question that Manitoba’s beleaguered hog industry can’t answer. “It’s on a very, very, very limited scale,” Manitoba Pork Council manager Andrew Dickson said about a proposal to relax […] Read moreAlta. seed cleaning plants continue to see brisk business
EDMONTON — Alberta’s seed cleaning plants have come a long way from the 1950s when the province’s small wooden elevators simply cleaned seed. Modern seed cleaning plants clean commercial and pedigreed seed, apply seed treatments and ship grain for export. Sixty-six Alberta seed cleaning plants cleaned 39.5 million bushels of grain last year. The average […] Read more
