Insights and Stories of Staff

Ont. cabinet shuffle reunites farm, rural affairs files

Jun. 24, 2014 at 4:19 pm CDT

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s post-election cabinet shuffle puts the province’s agriculture and food ministry and rural affairs ministry back under one minister. Wynne on Tuesday announced Jeff Leal, the MPP for Peterborough and the province’s minister of rural affairs since February last year, as the new minister of agriculture, food and […]

CWB makes bid for independent SW Sask. grain handler

Jun. 24, 2014 at 5:56 am CDT

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Prairie seed grower and inventor Harvey Gjesdal, 92

Jun. 23, 2014 at 1:28 pm CDT

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Ag work mostly outside feds’ foreign worker plan overhaul

Jun. 20, 2014 at 2:52 pm CDT

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Farm think-tank tapped out as George Morris Centre folds

Jun. 20, 2014 at 7:27 am CDT

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China trade trip seen clearing paths for beef, fruit, hay

Jun. 19, 2014 at 6:35 pm CDT

A Canadian trade mission to China is reported to be paying dividends including a formal agreement through which China will move toward accepting Canadian bone-in beef. That agreement, announced Tuesday, calls for China to work with Canadian officials to provide access for Canadian bone-in beef derived from animals less than […]

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Southern Alta. readies ‘de-watering’ equipment

Jun. 19, 2014 at 5:04 pm CDT

Alberta’s provincial agriculture department is distributing pumps to communities in the province’s south to support “de-watering efforts” as waterways rise under continued rainfall pressure. Municipalities and response agencies have reported to the province that the impact to date from heavy rainfall in the region is “significantly lower” than last year’s […]

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S. Alberta watching waterways, threat seen less severe than 2013

Jun. 19, 2014 at 11:15 am CDT

Faced with “significant” rainfall, parts of southern Alberta and downstream jurisdictions have again been bracing for late-spring flooding. The province said Wednesday it’s moving “pre-emptively” to co-ordinate responders and has activated its 24-hour provincial emergency operations centre. “Thankfully, the flood threat we are seeing this year is not as severe […]

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Canola pest expert Lloyd Dosdall, 61

Jun. 18, 2014 at 5:32 pm CDT

Memorial services are to be held Thursday at Sherwood Park, Alta. for University of Alberta entomologist and researcher Lloyd Dosdall, hailed especially in the Prairie canola industry for his work against the crop’s insect pests. Dosdall, who’d been undergoing treatments for cancer over the past two years, died last Thursday […]

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New clubroot pathotype confirmed, can stump resistant canolas

Jun. 18, 2014 at 11:53 am CDT

A second round of tests on a clubroot pathotype found in the Edmonton area confirms it’s a new type that can beat canola varieties bred for clubroot resistance. “This is a different pathotype that none of the commercially available clubroot-resistant varieties in Western Canada are effective at managing,” plant pathologist […]

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