If you have taken the time this summer to stop and smell the roses, chances are good that your rose may exist thanks to a rose breeder from Western Canada. When settlers came to Canada from Europe and other warmer climates with their roses, they found their tender cultivars could not survive the harsh prairie […] Read more
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Celebrating the beauty of western Canadian rose breeders
Yorkton gets new farm dealership
Canada West Harvest Centre plans to open a new dealership in Yorkton, Sask. It will be the company’s fourth store to open in three years and is expected to be in operation this harvest season. It joins three other Canada West Harvest Centre locations in Regina, Saskatoon and Swift Current, Sask. “We are very excited […] Read more
New vaccine fights turkey, pig illnesses, improves food safety
A new vaccine is designed to combat not only the types of salmonella bacteria that make pigs and turkeys sick but also help reduce food-borne diseases that can make people ill. Vaccines on the market now generally offer protection from one type of salmonella. However, that can leave animals vulnerable to infections from other types […] Read more
NAFTA negotiations will include delicate ‘deal breaker’ issues
After months of speculation and political positioning, Canada, the United States and Mexico will sit down this week to start hashing out a “modernized” North American Free Trade Agreement. What that actually means is still to be determined. Most of the specifics will likely be kept guarded — only for eyes within the trade negotiating […] Read more
Saskatchewan Pulse growers opt for another year of lower checkoffs
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers has decided to keep its levy at a reduced level for at least one more year. The mandatory levy on pulses and soybeans was dropped to .67 percent of gross sales from one percent on Aug. 1, 2016, in re-sponse to complaints from ratepayers. It will stay at that level for another […] Read more
Tight supply could make canola situation ‘explosive’
Oil World says lower production in Canada and Australia, along with low palm oil stocks, could send canola prices up
Analysts are becoming increasingly bullish about canola for a variety of reasons. Glen Pownall, managing director of Peter Cremer Canada Ltd., said dry conditions in Canada and Australia have reduced yields in the two main exporting countries. “I think things are going to be very tight, that’s for sure,” he said. “Overall in Western Canada, […] Read moreI, Farm: an ag update
I, Farm. Not I farm — although I do a bit of that — but I, Farm. In 1958 libertarian economist and activist Leonard Read penned a now famous essay telling the story of a pencil, from the pencil’s point of view. I, Pencil goes into great detail in telling its entire heritage, looking at […] Read more
Dairy group loses Ont. funding
Dairy Farmers of Ontario have withdrawn promotional funding from the national organization. Citing a lack of accountability from Dairy Farmers of Canada, the Ontario organization served notice earlier this year that it would send no further funds for marketing and promotion as of Jan. 1, 2018. That could leave a $44 million gap in the […] Read more
New barley variety could make better use of nitrogen
LACOMBE, Alta. — A nitrogen efficient barley could be released next year. Thanks to advances in genomics and the tenacity of plant breeders at the Alberta Agriculture Crop Development Centre, the new variety identified as T09157014 could soon be registered. “The idea is to select and develop material that can pick up more nitrogen from […] Read more
Several scary reasons to sleep with a light on
With Donald Trump in the White House and a general public increasingly disconnected from food production, new threats have emerged for Canadian agriculture. Of course, there are still plenty of old threats to worry about. Markets are ever changing and just as susceptible as ever to disruptions, oversupply and trade barriers. And we still live […] Read more
