K+S Aktiengesellschaft of Germany will spend $3.25 billion to build a new potash mine 50 kilometres north of Moose Jaw, Sask. The Legacy Project is expected to be operating in 2015. Board chair Norbert Steiner said in a news release the project, along with existing mines in Germany, will allow K+S to be globally competitive. […] Read more
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K+S to build potash mine
Grain execs say port of Churchill may flounder
A prairie grain handling system devoid of Canadian Wheat Board intervention will see a significant shift in grain movement, says a senior grain industry executive. And that will spell trouble for the northern Manitoba port of Churchill. “There will be challenges for Churchill,” Paterson GlobalFoods vice-president Keith Bruch told reporters after he spoke to a […] Read more
4-H fundraising campaign
The British Columbia 4-H Foundation has launched its annual Field of Clover fundraising campaign. Supporting 4-H helps young people become contributing leaders in their communities. For more information, visit www.bc4h.bc.ca.
Energy company not responsible for gas contamination, says report
Cenovus Energy says the carbon dioxide gas it uses in its enhanced oil recovery project near Weyburn, Sask., is not leaking to the surface. The Calgary company held a news conference last week to release the results of a third-party site assessment. Brad Small, Cenovus’s vice-president of oil and natural gas for Saskatchewan, said the […] Read more
Couples recognized for positive attitude, inspiration
For many years, the motto of modern agriculture has been get big or get out. While that economic reality may be true, Kevin and Annamarie Klippenstein of Cawston, B.C., have proven there are exceptions to every rule. Kevin and Annamarie were named one of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2011 in Brandon. They share the […] Read more
Half interest in Hereford bull’s semen fetches $46,000
Rick Johnston says JJPH 83T Benchmark 127Y is the best bull calf he’s had in 35 years of raising Herefords. When he offered him for sale at the Canadian Western Agribition national Hereford sale Nov. 24, he discovered how highly others thought of him, too. Twenty-two breeders paid a total of $46,000 for a half-interest […] Read more
Arctic weather phenomenon to blame for toque weather
Environment Canada is predicting a colder than usual winter for most of the country this year. Whatever happened to global warming? Daniel Bezte, a teacher by trade who has a degree in geography specializing in climatology, says it is possible to have colder winters in parts of the globe and still have global warming. Bezte, […] Read more
Half interest in calf sells for $67,000
REGINA — Every once in a while a family is rewarded for decades of hard work and a common sense approach to raising cattle. That was the case for Danny and Conna Warrilow of Minburn, Alta,. when they sold a half interest in an eight-month-old Red Angus bull calf for $67,000 at Canadian Western Agribition […] Read more
Simmentals win bull pen
REGINA – A dismal year at one southern Manitoba farm looked brighter when the family run operation won the supreme champion pen of commercial bulls at Canadian Western Agribition Nov. 21-26. Downey Farms of Coulter won with a pen of three black yearling Simmental bulls that came from an embryo flush on the farm. Allan […] Read more
Wheat safety divisive issue
A staple of the human diet has been coming under increasing attack from some health professionals. One of the more recent salvos was fired by William Davis, a Wisconsin cardiologist and author of the book Wheat Belly, in which he provides 16 pages of reference information from the 1960s to the present supporting his argument […] Read more
