Insights and Stories of Staff

Please don’t bring these in your baggage

Jul. 26, 2011 at 3:01 pm CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is urging travellers to be mindful of the role they play in keeping Canada free of serious foreign animal diseases. “Travellers should be extra vigilant at the border in light of recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Asia, classical swine fever in Europe, and African […]

Manitoba pest reports available here

Jul. 26, 2011 at 1:13 pm CDT

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CWB plebiscite votes should have arrived

Jul. 25, 2011 at 3:44 pm CDT

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Manitoba crop reports available here

Jul. 25, 2011 at 3:32 pm CDT

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Wheat board announces 2011-12 initials

Jul. 25, 2011 at 3:11 pm CDT

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Cattle stress – nighttime heat is also a threat

Jul. 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm CDT

In his regular weekly BeefTalk column, North Dakota State Extension Service beef specialist Kris Ringwall notes the current North American heat wave combined wth high humidity and relatively calm winds have caused considerable loss of life among cattle. He warns that this is not just a problem with feedlot cattle […]

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Alberta – good news on bugs, bad on disease

Jul. 21, 2011 at 3:10 pm CDT

In his latest Call of the Land weekly interview, Alberta Agriculture pest specialist Scott Meers has mostly good news on insect pressure in the province. Meers says four weeks into the six-week monitoring period for bertha armyworms, trap counts are “really low” with one exception in the Fort Vermilion area. […]

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New executive director at WGRF

Jul. 21, 2011 at 11:28 am CDT

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers executive director Garth Patterson has stepped down to accept a new position as executive director of the Western Grains Research Foundation. “I am extremely proud to have been associated with one of the most successful industries in Saskatchewan,” Patterson said in a release. Patterson has been with […]

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Alberta announces hog price insurance

Jul. 21, 2011 at 9:16 am CDT

The Alberta government has announced a new risk management program for the province’s hog producers. The Hog Price Insurance Program (HPIP) is similar to the CPIP program for cattle. The province says it will help provide hog producers with protection against an unpredicted price decline, and will be delivered by […]

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Bunge eyes Western Canada after end of CWB monopoly

Jul. 20, 2011 at 3:00 pm CDT

Bunge Ltd. welcomes Ottawa’s decision to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board and is preparing to jump into Prairie grain handling, according to a story in the July 20 Globe and Mail. In an interview while visiting Winnipeg, Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser told the Globe that “The concept (of a […]

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