A Saskatchewan landfill approved to accept rendered specified risk material has finally begun accepting the product. The Highway 55 Waste Management Corp. in the Rural Municipality of Canwood built a pit for SRM last year. It accepted its first load in February. The materials were previously used to make animal feed and fertilizer but that […] Read more
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Sask. landfill begins accepting specified risk material
Transportation courses benefit industry, says CFIA
RED DEER – Educating livestock truckers has helped improve the health of farm animals shipped to auctions, feedlots and packing plants. Teaching people how to do the job properly is more beneficial than writing them a ticket, said cpl. Dave Heaslip, an RCMP livestock investigator in northern Alberta. “With the number of livestock we have […] Read more
Clock ticking on doomed producer car locations
A Saskatchewan farmer trying to save his producer car loading site says he can only do so much. Cam Goff of Hanley, Sask., said time is running out and the federal and provincial governments have to get more involved in the issue. While politicians, including government MPs, have spoken out against Canadian National Railway’s plan, […] Read more
New kid knows the ropes
She’s been jumping competitively for one year, but Isabelle Biron already has a reputation in the Manitoba horse community. “She has the older generation scared and on the run,” said Shelley Kuebler of Winnipeg, while standing in the equestrian barns at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon in March. Biron won first in two […] Read more
U.S. dairy faces new challenges
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Leading California dairy farms are radically different from today’s Canadian prairie dairy farms and radically different from the way they were 20 years ago. At the Canola Council of Canada convention in San Francisco, Calif., March 18, California dairy producer Peter de Jong described his farming operation and the transformation it […] Read more
Sask. producer group wants packer reopened
The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan wants the labour dispute at XL Foods in Moose Jaw, Sask., resolved and the plant reopened. The organization issued a news release last week after learning that some animals had been slaughtered at the plant so the company can retain its federal inspection status. Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials […] Read more
Alta. biofuel credit gets extension
An Alberta biofuel credit program has been extended another five years. Alberta Energy’s BioEnergy Producer Credit Program encourages companies to build more ethanol and biofuel capacity by offering per litre incentives. The program covers biofuel produced from grain, oilseeds and agricultural and municipal waste. The incentive offers nine cents per litre for production from biofuel […] Read more
Organic launch years in the making
Gene Kessler, chief executive officer for a company that recently launched a line of prairie-raised organic processed meat products, said the project was years in the making. Clear Creek Organics officially launched its first eight products, certified by Ecocert Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba last month. The company also opened its own retail location. It […] Read more
Winter goes easy on winter wheat
Flooding isn’t the only thing almost no one is talking about this spring in the Red River Valley. Winter wheat survival is also a subject of little chatter, and as with the flooding situation, silence is golden. “We had a very good winter for winter wheat and in most cases I think we’ll see good […] Read more
APAS chugging along
Given events of the past few years, some people might have thought it impossible. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, an organization that appeared on the verge of collapse two years ago, marked its 10th anniversary at its annual meeting held March 23-24. APAS membership dropped from a high of 134 rural municipalities in 2005-06 […] Read more
