Saskatchewan will spend $17.5 million to provide cash flow to cattle producers with cull animals. Agriculture minister Clay Serby announced Dec. 10 the province would pay $128 per eligible beef and dairy animal to help offset the market downturn caused by bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Producers will not have to slaughter those animals to get the […] Read more
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Sask. details cull cow program
Stock Sales
Dec. 19: Made In The Valley bull pen sale, Swan River, Man., 204-734-2073 or 204-734-2058 Dec. 20: ACMC Sire Selections sale, Stettler, Alta., 306-933-4200 Dec. 20: Hi-Weigh Breeders & Guests Charolais production sale, Brandon, 306-933-3111 Dec. 21: Hillsthorpe/Coates Cattle Co. Charolais sale, Highwood, Alta., 306-933-4200 Dec. 22: Capone Western Classic Black Angus female sale, Moose […] Read more
CFA leader’s Liberal intentions may be issue
Now that he is seeking a Liberal nomination for the next federal election, Bob Friesen’s ability to stay as president of Canada’s largest farm lobby will be up for debate when Canadian Federation of Agriculture directors meet this week in Ottawa. “It’s a discussion we have to have, whether this affects the ability of the […] Read more
Irrigators agree to promote water plans
OUTLOOK, Sask.- Saskatchewan irrigators will consider hired help to raise the resource’s profile provincially and nationally. The group plans to investigate hiring an employee to promote the benefits of irrigation and lobby for research and development funding. At the Saskatchewan Irrigation Projects Association’s annual conference in Outlook on Dec. 1-2, members agreed to double fees […] Read more
Developing nations won’t give in at WTO
Developed countries will have to give much more than they receive in world agricultural trade talks if they expect developing nations to endorse a deal, the blunt-talking representative of a developing world trade-negotiating bloc told a Dec. 8 conference on stalled World Trade Organization talks. Brazilian ambassador to Canada Carneiro Leao said “balance” in the […] Read more
New canola class waiting for HT trait
It’s been a good year for Western Canada’s “mustard canola.” The crop, commercially known as Prairie Canola, fared well in the early season heat and drought that marked the 2003 growing season, outyielding check varieties by 15 to 20 percent. Its meal recently received regulatory approval to be used as feed in the United States, […] Read more
Researchers try to reduce toxin levels in swine feed
Grain and hog producers on the eastern Prairies wait for the day when they will have cereal crop varieties with full resistance to fusarium head blight. Because that day is likely years away, producers need to adopt other strategies to cope with a disease that harms yield and quality of wheat and barley crops. For […] Read more
Quebec margarine stays white
Canada’s largest margarine manufacturer, supported by prairie oilseed producers, wants Canada’s highest court to force Quebec to allow yellow margarine onto store shelves. The province is Canada’s last bastion of white margarine, once a national staple because the dairy industry had convinced provincial governments that vegetable oil-based spread should not be butter coloured. It would […] Read more
Fungal disease appears first time in Canada
A harvest survey found the disease club root in more than a dozen widely separated canola fields around Edmonton this year. “It is there at low levels,” said Murray Hartman of Alberta Agriculture. Club root is a fungus that infects plants in the cole family, such as cabbage, turnips and rutabaga. Canola is also in […] Read more
Breeders tout Salers benefits
Canadian Salers breeders think it’s time the livestock industry took another look at their cattle. Thirty years after Salers first appeared in Canada, their numbers still are not large. At this year’s Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, the national show was one of the smallest with about 50 entries. Twelve animals sold in the sale […] Read more
