A strong majority of prairie wheat and barley producers believe the federal government should not move on its pledge to kill the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly until it receives more advice from affected farmers on the issue, according to an Ipsos-Reid opinion poll published Nov. 6. The survey of 600 producers in mid-October also shows […] Read more
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Producers want say on CWB: poll
Sask. plans land-use project
Saskatchewan’s alternative land-use pilot project will go ahead next spring in the Rural Municipality of Lakeside. The ALUS task force chose the central Saskatchewan site from among 21 applications. The RM surrounds the communities of Watson and Quill Lake and includes a portion of the Quill Lakes. Task force chair Glenn Blakley said the area […] Read more
Fair’s cattle entries strong
EDMONTON – Cattle producers have brushed off lingering effects of BSE like a new snowfall. “We’re back in business and things are strong,” said Leah Jones, the director responsible for agriculture at Farmfair International. Cattle entries at this year’s livestock show are up to 2,172 from 1,900 last year. The number of exhibitors is also […] Read more
Coming Events
Nov. 8-11: Agri-Trade, Westerner Park, Red Deer, 403-347-4491 Nov. 9-10: Canadian Association of Farm Advisors western regional conference, Black Knight Inn, Red Deer (Liz, 204-977-4018 or 877-474-2871) Nov. 9-11: Harvest Showdown, Gallagher Centre, Yorkton, Sask. (Don Kunkel, 306-783-4800) Nov. 10-12: Saskatchewan Greenhouse Growers and Saskatchewan Vegetable Growers conference and trade show, TCU Place, Saskatoon (Calvin […] Read more
More Ag Canada money sought
The federal government is asking Parliament to approve a doubling of authorized spending for Agriculture Canada this fiscal year, reflecting a number of program announcements the Conservatives have made since spending plans were approved last spring. Once approved, it will bring authorized departmental spending for the 2006-07 fiscal year ending March 31, 2007 to $4.276 […] Read more
Ag Notes
Better Manitoba roads The Manitoba government has announced it will spend an additional $300 million on highway construction and maintenance over the next two budget years. The province spends $257 million a year in highway capital and maintenance. The additional spending will increase annual provincial highway investments to almost $400 million a year, a 50 […] Read more
Sask. hog producers look for answers
Dozens of cars sit in the parking lot at Mitchell’s Gourmet Foods’s slaughter plant in Saskatoon while hundreds of pigs fill the stalls at the Hutterite colony in Rosetown, Sask. Keeping both full is the goal the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board has set for itself as it tries to determine how to maintain slaughter capacity […] Read more
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Wanted: Address to purchase pot handles for Westbend ultra weight stainless steel cooking pots. Call 306-248-3835. Wanted: Paton knitting instruction book from the early 1980s that contains sizes two to six years. Cover has a picture of a little boy wearing a light blue sweater with clouds on it. Call 204-768-3247. Wanted: Speckled swan gourd […] Read more
Maple Leaf hesitant to sell plant
Every business deal needs a willing buyer and a willing seller. But Saskatchewan hog farmers don’t yet have a willing seller in Maple Leaf Foods, the company that owns the Saskatoon hog slaughter plant. When Scott McCain, the head of Maple Leaf’s hog production and processing division, was asked last week whether his company would […] Read more
Strahl accuses CWB of misleading farmers
The Canadian Wheat Board is misleading farmers when it claims the marketing monopoly earns them as much as $665 million annually, federal agriculture minister Chuck Strahl said last week. “I believe that some of the figures that are used by the Canadian Wheat Board are misleading on several fronts,” Strahl told the House of Commons […] Read more
