A public outcry has forced the Alberta government to prohibit the recreational hunting of coyotes using dogs. Few people use dogs to hunt coyotes, but media reports this spring highlighted the hunts and the outcry was fierce. “Many residents let us know they were concerned about it, that’s for sure,” said John Girvan with Alberta […] Read more
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Alta. puts restrictions on hunting coyotes
Mustard looks for checkoff
When Brett Meinert’s yellow mustard crop didn’t yield well two years ago, but all his other crops did, he didn’t know where to look for answers. “The agronomics have not been researched,” said the Shaunavon grower and chair of the Saskatchewan Mustard Growers Association. He and other growers want a checkoff that would fund mustard […] Read more
ADM hints at new ventures
Archer Daniels Midland is working on a joint venture with a Japanese company to produce a vegetable oil that can shrink your waistline. Econa oil was introduced in Japan three years ago and is now the top-selling oil in the country. ADM’s director of corporate marketing told a room full of Agricore United delegates that […] Read more
UN struggles to measure hunger problem
ROME, Italy – Arriving at a politically sensitive conclusion about the number of chronically hungry people in the world is a guessing game. Even the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization official, which co-ordinates the effort, concedes the point. “It is an estimate we make,” said David Wilcock, co-ordinator of the FAO ‘food insecurity’ mapping […] Read more
Sask Pool sells feed mills to American company
Heartland Feeds, a division of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, has been sold. Masterfeeds of London, Ont., bought four of six Heartland facilities – one in Regina, two Alberta locations in Taber and Picture Butte, and one at Dauphin, Man. Masterfeeds is owned by farmer co-op and grain processing giant AGP Inc., of Omaha, Nebraska. Sask Pool […] Read more
Agricore United silent on CWB monopoly debate
Agricore United isn’t going to campaign for an end to the Canadian Wheat Board’s export monopoly. But that doesn’t mean Canada’s newest and biggest grain company is in favour of single desk selling. Instead, it plans to stay on the sidelines, at least for the time being, on that most contentious of grain policy issues. […] Read more
Farmers key to curbing hunger
ROME, Italy – World leaders trying to reduce hunger should focus on farmers and keep a wary eye on multinational companies, the president of a world farmer lobby told a meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. “In the final analysis, it will be the farmer who will make or break any strategy […] Read more
On the beat in a small town
BOISSEVAIN, Man. – Chants of “trick or treat” can be heard as const. Steve Greening leaves the RCMP office and starts walking south toward Boissevain’s downtown area. It’s Halloween, the sky is overcast, and costumed children are scurrying door to door in search of treats. Greening is a tall, sturdy man. His long strides soon […] Read more
Study finds hog barns safe places to invest
It’s a good idea for kids to put their pennies into piggy banks. And it seems it’s an even better idea for their parents to put their money into pig barns. Brad Marceniuk, an economist with Saskatchewan Agriculture’s livestock development branch, has studied the returns from various types of investments during a 25-year period ending […] Read more
World must unite to fight disease: FAO
ROME, Italy – The world is letting its guard down in the battle against increasingly mobile plant and animal diseases, says a study published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. It recommends greater international co-operation and recognition by national governments that paying some of the bill to defeat disease in other countries is […] Read more
