Five Alberta companies were part of a recent trade mission to the Seoul Food trade show in Seoul, South Korea. The mission included representatives from Canadian Rocky Moun-tain Beef, Nature’s Best Foods, Burnbrae Farms, Fieldberg Farms and the Spice Chica. The program included store tours, an exporter education session, a showcase for companies to engage […] Read more
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U.S. durum yields well below last year’s levels
Dustin Johnsrud, who farms near Williston, North Dakota, started harvesting his durum crop in mid August. As of Aug. 18, his earliest-seeded durum was performing better than anticipated, at 20 to 25 bushels per acre. But he’s assuming the rest of the crop won’t do as well. “The later seeded stuff… I’m thinking 10 to […] Read more
New facility may change beef research
The fate of the beef research program at one of Ontario’s research stations remains in doubt as development begins on a new facility near Guelph. Much of the New Liskeard cow-calf herd could be consolidated with the herd already at the re-search station in Elora, about 20 kilometres north of Guelph, once a new facility […] Read more
Letters to the editor – August 24, 2017
Going down with the ship There have been many comparisons between Premier Brad Wall and former premier Grant Devine over the years. Most notably, how each of them managed to rack up mounds of debt, paying out favours of party friends and supporters, while maintaining a primary target on privatization. While Devine didn’t manage this […] Read more
Late-summer canola prices holding steady
If you had gone away for two weeks of summer holidays and came back Monday, you might think nothing had been happening in the market. But that would have only applied to the canola futures market, which has been relatively flat and rangebound since mid-July, with most other crops gradually trending down. “It’s certainly holding […] Read more
CRA announces list of regions eligible for livestock tax deferral
The final list of designated regions for 2016 under the Livestock Tax Deferral Provision has been authorized because of drought conditions in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. The provision allows producers in designated drought regions who are facing feed shortages to defer a portion of their sale proceeds of breeding livestock to […] Read more
Livestock producers warned to reduce antibiotic use
Microbes are showing increased resistance because of:
More than 80 percent of antimicrobials in distribution are used to treat animals. From a consumer’s point of view that is an alarming statistic but it needs to be taken in context, said Cheryl Gow of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The numbers are misleading because the statistics are measured in kilograms and do […] Read moreMore PED found in Manitoba
After a two-week lull in new cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in Manitoba, another barn tested positive Aug. 9 and brought the total number of infected premises to 61. Dr. Glen Duizer, Manitoba’s chief veterinarian, said the new case wasn’t unexpected, and efforts continue to contain further spread of the virus and eliminate it […] Read more
Drought-proof canola remains elusive
Modern canola hybrids yield more, are resistant to diseases such as clubroot and blackleg and their pods are less likely to shatter when straight combined. However, the specific trait that many canola growers needed this year does not exist: tolerance for heat and drought. It’s possible, thanks to better genetics, that the latest canola hybrids […] Read more
Officials say more education needed about emergency livestock trailers
STANDARD, Alta. — Efforts are underway to close a knowledge gap that cost the lives of hundreds of weaner pigs when the semi-truck hauling them rolled near Standard earlier this year. Swine production manager Alastair Bratton was on a business trip to Calgary in mid-spring when he was asked to assist at the scene, a […] Read more
