Insights and Stories of Staff

Seed, equipment quarantined at wilt-stricken Man. farm

Jan. 9, 2015 at 6:52 pm CST

Seed and equipment are now under federal quarantine at a Manitoba farm where a crop pathogen never before seen in Canada made its first-ever appearance in North American canola. Without giving the farm’s specific or general location, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday it’s placed a quarantine order on […]

CN, CP face fines for summer grain handle

Jan. 8, 2015 at 7:33 pm CST

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Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

Jan. 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm CST

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Five-year beef plan seeks boosts in demand, efficiency

Jan. 7, 2015 at 6:49 pm CST

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Two more Que. hog operations confirmed with PED

Jan. 7, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

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Hog nursery barn Quebec’s third PED case

Jan. 7, 2015 at 11:26 am CST

A hog nursery operation in Quebec’s Monteregie was confirmed Dec. 31 as the province’s third case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Quebec has previously booked two cases of on-farm outbreaks of the PED virus (PEDv) — both at hog finishing operations in the Monteregie in February and November […]

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Verticillium wilt makes jump to Canadian canola

Jan. 6, 2015 at 8:18 pm CST

A Manitoba canola field has been confirmed as the first in North America with Verticillium wilt, a fungal disease well known to northern Europe’s canola and vegetable growers. With no seed treatments or foliar fungicides yet registered against it — and with no resistant canola varieties available — the disease, […]

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Agrium to shed U.S. fertilizer terminals

Jan. 6, 2015 at 11:26 am CST

Fertilizer giant Agrium’s planned exit from the purchase-for-resale business now includes a US$50 million deal for two of its U.S. fertilizer facilities. The Calgary company announced Tuesday it’s reached a deal to sell its Illinois anhydrous ammonia storage and distribution terminals at Niota and Meredosia — about 150 km west […]

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Sask. to seek new animal protection agency

Jan. 5, 2015 at 6:59 pm CST

Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry plans to seek other options for enforcement of animal protection laws, with three months before the current enforcer’s contract ends. The ministry confirmed Monday that the Saskatchewan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has decided not to renew its contract for enforcement of the […]

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Ont. oat, barley growers approve GFO entry

Jan. 5, 2015 at 6:16 pm CST

Ontario’s barley and oat growers have voted just over three-quarters in favour of representation by the province’s wheat, corn and soybean growers’ organization. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) confirmed Monday that eligible growers voted 77 per cent in favour of the move in a November vote conducted by the Ontario […]

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