A Western Grains Research Foundation survey indicates wheat growers strongly support increased funding for public wheat breeding in Canada. On June 11, the WGRF released results from its survey of 600 wheat and barley growers in Western Canada. In the March telephone survey, conducted by a Saskatoon research firm, 84 percent of producers said funding […] Read more
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Public money for wheat research has support
Location, not number key to managing people
Sociologist Susan McDaniel doesn’t necessarily see gloom and doom in a world population of seven billion people, which was reached last November. The Canada research chair in global population, based at the University of Lethbridge, receives many photos of crowded cities and beaches, but she says they represent distribution and migration issues rather than overcrowding. […] Read more
CFIA investigative powers to grow under new food bill
Catching ‘rotten apples’ | Second reading expected before summer break
One of the goals of the federal government’s proposed food safety legislation will be to rein in “rotten apples” willing to cut corners for profit, says the bill’s Senate sponsor. Manitoba Conservative senator Don Plett opened debate on Bill S-11 last week with the assertion that Canadian farmers and food producers generally play by food […] Read moreBASF looks backon busy decade
Coming years Two more herbicides, herbicide resistant cropping system, fungicides, insecticides and more
Markus Heldt, head of BASF’s international crop protection division predicts one of the company’s new herbicides will cover 20 million acres in North America this year. He said Kixor (safluenacil), one of two new herbicides with new active ingredients BASF released between 2002 and 2009, is proving popular and is in line to post big […] Read moreB.C.gov’t regulations irk beef producers
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Using grazing plans and other land management techniques, Judy Guichon is always trying to leave her Quilchena, B.C., ranch in better shape than before. As outgoing president of the British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association, she hoped she would leave office in a better position by cutting through government red tape. New pieces […] Read more
Plant ‘perfume’ draws microbes
Attracts beneficial bacteria | Healthy roots could reduce the need for chemicals
LINDELL BEACH, B.C. — Research has shown for the first time that corn can attract beneficial bacteria to their root environment, basically through the power of perfume. Scientists have discovered that one of a variety of chemicals put out by corn roots produces aromatic toxins to attract a certain competitive bacteria to the root system. […] Read moreSeniors should be viewed as valued resources
HALIFAX —Sandra Bathgate used to wonder what more could be done to attract a younger crowd when she participated in fundraising mixers in rural Saskatchewan. Today, she understands that the retired crowd is exactly who community leaders like her should be meeting. Bathgate, a board member with Community Futures Mid Sask, talked about dealing with […] Read more
Ottawa plans to ease gun sale record keeping
Proposed new government regulations would end the requirement that long gun sellers record sales data that could be used by police to track firearm ownership. The regulations were tabled in Parliament and sent to the Senate committee on legal and constitutional affairs for study June 14. It is expected to approve them this week. As […] Read more
20,000 acre farm sold to colony
Hudye Farms | Walsh, Alta., area colony plans to start new colony near Norquay, Sask.
The Hudye family from Norquay, Sask., has sold its 20,000 acre grain farm to members of the Spring Creek Hutterite colony near Walsh, Alta. The move is one of the larger single sales of farmland in Western Canada, says Braden Hudye. He said the sale will spark the development of a new colony, to be […] Read moreField trial to study insecticide effects on bees
A University of Guelph scientist will try to answer a question this summer that is perplexing entomologists in Europe and North America: are canola seeds treated with insecticide killing bees? Cynthia Scott-Dupree, a professor in the university’s School of Environmental Sciences, will release bees onto a blooming canola field near Guelph to determine if coating […] Read more
