CALMAR, Alta. – The day after Christmas Wayne and Shirley Forsberg were picked up by a whirlwind and dumped into an international crisis that has paralyzed the livestock industry in Canada for almost a year. Until then the couple quietly worked, lived and raised their children on the small farm they started in 1965 southwest […] Read more
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BSE connection rattles Alberta farm family
Farmers could profit from fish food demand
Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production industries in the world, climbing to 37.9 million tonnes in 2001 from 13 million tonnes in 1990. Murray Drew of the University of Saskatchewan’s Prairie Feed Resource Centre thinks prairie farmers and processors can benefit from this growth. “The typical farmed-salmon diet is composed of 50 […] Read more
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Wanted: A set of Noma bubble lights of the 1940-50 era in any condition. They have a picture of a little girl and a bubble light on top of the box. There are nine bubble lights in the set. Also, want a White Orchid pattern community silver pickle fork. – Ruth Mushumanski, Box 73, Russell, […] Read more
Canadian politicians pitch for meat sales
Canadian government ministers fanned out across the world this week with one simple message to traditional buyers of Canadian beef – open your borders. The product is safe. In Mexico for a meeting of leaders of the Americas, prime minister Paul Martin was to meet United States president George W. Bush Jan. 13. In Ottawa […] Read more
Small town business has designs on big city markets
ST. BENEDICT, Sask. – Willie Muller likes to tell the one about the Vancouver executive and the village of St. Benedict. The way he tells it, Muller and his wife Holly, who run a business that places words and pictures onto clothing and other fabrics, had just agreed to act as the Saskatchewan agent for […] Read more
BASF brings focus to tolerant lentils
In what is being billed as a “global first,” BASF Canada has announced its intention to develop a herbicide tolerant crop for Canadian lentil growers. Clearfield lentils will be created and commercialized in partnership with the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. Breeder seed of the crop, which is being developed […] Read more
New Wild Rose president faces rebuilding task
RED DEER – When Bill Dobson was nine years old he remembers going with his father to a meeting in his community of Paradise Valley, Alta., about building a hockey arena. The meeting was heated with each side shouting and pointing their fingers. The ‘no’ side won at that meeting, but on the way out […] Read more
Menzies quits post to make federal run
Alberta farmer Ted Menzies has stepped down from his national farm leadership positions to try to win the right to run for a seat in Parliament in an expected spring federal election. The Claresholm grains and special crops producer announced Jan. 12 he is seeking the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in Macleod constituency, south […] Read more
Canada’s pork stock seen rising
EDMONTON – Canada will soon be one of the most important pork producers in the world, says the manager of an international pork company. Jordi Masbernat, a manager for PIC in southern Europe, said Canada is one of few countries with an abundance of land, high quality standards and plenty of feed. “If you ask […] Read more
Popular low-carb diet bad news for potatoes
Slumping demand brought on by a diet craze has spoiled the market for a good potato crop. “You could watch potato sales decline if you put a finger on the calendar indicating the day that the study came out validating the Atkins diet. Atkins has had a huge impact,” said Manitoba Agriculture potato specialist Bill […] Read more
