Efforts are continuing to re-establish a rail line that could carry grain, lumber, potash and other goods between Prince Albert, Sask., and Hudson Bay, Sask. Sinclair Harrison, president of the Hudson Bay Route Association (HBRA), said an engineering study should be complete early this summer on a 55 kilometre portion of the line between Birch […] Read more
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Group seeks to reconnect rail lines
CDC lacks procedure to solve sector conflicts: auditor
The Canadian Dairy Commission does a good job fulfilling the terms of its dairy oversight legislation but has been slow in dealing with conflict-of-interest issues, says the federal auditor general. In his first report tabled in Parliament, recently appointed Michael Ferguson included a review of the CDC that reached this conclusion: “We found no significant […] Read more
Manitoba vegetable purée maker seeks global markets
Baby food purées | Canadian government’s $2.5 million loan allows company to expand operation to commercial scale
A Manitoba company is planning to turn locally grown culled vegetables into purées for baby food, soup and sauces. Canadian Prairie Garden Puree Products will work with market quality vegetables and vegetables that aren’t suitable for table consumption because of visual defects, said Kelly Beaulieu, vice-president of the Portage la Prairie company. “The vegetables and […] Read moreWart removal essential to avoid non-functional bull
Penile warts are one of the more common issues when examining bulls for breeding soundness, especially young ones. All purebred herds will be affected eventually and commercial herds may have some crop up on mature bulls. They are caused by a virus closely related to the one that causes body warts. Bulls that appear wart […] Read more
New oat shines in crown rust trial
Bred for resistance | Selected growers may test the hulled milling oat variety this spring
Researchers are continuing to stack the genetic deck in the fight against crown rust. OT2069, a new white hulled milling oat variety from Winnipeg’s Cereal Research Centre, shows good disease resistance and yield potential. “We don’t want to see what happened with the Pc68 gene that was present in Assiniboia, Pinnacle, Medallion, Ronald, Furlong. All […] Read moreCourt decision delays end of long-gun registry
Despite the Conservatives’ best efforts last week to kill it, the federal long gun registry lives on, at least for this week. For federal Conservatives and anti-registry campaigners, April 5 was supposed to be end-of-the-long-gun registry day after the Senate approved Bill C-19 April 4 and governor-general David Johnston was scheduled to make it law. […] Read more
Organic Alberta hears optimism from buyers as economy rebounds
Organic Alberta, with support from Alberta Agriculture, recently hosted grain buyer panels at regional workshops in Leth-bridge, Camrose and La Crete. The panels included representatives from Growers International Organic Sales Inc., Grain Millers, Viterra, C.B. Constantini, Sunrise Foods, Prairie Heritage Seeds and F.W. Cobs. The format was largely question and answer, but a number of […] Read more
New season brings opportunities, optimism
Spring has sprung with gophers, crocuses and late-season snowstorms. The geese are back and spring auction sales are ramping up. Despite all the usual harbingers, there are many unique aspects to spring 2012. Those baby calves frolicking in the sun are worth more money than ever before, meaning producers can justify more veterinary expense in […] Read more
China trip enlightens, intrigues
China’s national bird is the crane. Not the feathered kind. The industrial kind. It is said that 80 percent of the world’s cranes are working in China, and having just returned from there, I believe it. One can stand on a street corner in Shanghai, Xi’an or Beijing and lose count of the cranes busily […] Read more
Disgruntled researchers need to put money comparison where their mouth is
A wise scientist once remarked that the important moments in his laboratory were not when an experiment produced a result he expected and that confirmed his scientific thesis. It was when the results came back and he thought, “that can’t be right.” The history of invention, of exploration, of scientific advancement has always depended on […] Read more
