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Canada losing bluetongue-free status

Sep. 6, 2015 at 3:38 am CDT

New findings of bluetongue in cattle in Canada — outside the one area of the country where the virus previously gained a toehold — have trading partners shutting their ports to Canadian livestock genetics and animals. Three cattle from one farm in southwestern Ontario’s Chatham-Kent municipality have now tested positive […]

Federal farm politicians lining up for debate

Sep. 4, 2015 at 6:43 pm CDT

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CFIA clears more states for cross-border poultry traffic

Sep. 3, 2015 at 7:04 pm CDT

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East’s biggest oilseed crusher goes to Viterra

Sep. 2, 2015 at 8:25 pm CDT

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New Sask. farm drainage rules ready for rollout

Sep. 1, 2015 at 8:10 pm CDT

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Canadian chain New York Fries to join Cara

Sep. 1, 2015 at 2:50 pm CDT

A potato-based staple of shopping-mall food courts across Canada is set to become an arm of the country’s biggest full-service restaurant operator. The numbered owner of New York Fries agreed Monday to a cash deal to sell its entire stake to Cara Operations Ltd., which operates or franchises dining brands […]

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Canada lifts bans on three states’ poultry, eggs

Aug. 31, 2015 at 8:11 pm CDT

Travellers entering Canada from the U.S. can now bring in uncooked poultry products and eggs from Indiana, Montana and/or Arkansas. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) during August declared each of those three states free of highly pathogenic (“high-path”) avian flu, following discoveries of infected poultry in those states this […]

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Farm kids: Don’t worry about wages

Aug. 27, 2015 at 8:12 pm CDT

A new study by Cornell University agricultural economists says family members who work on the family dairy farm make $22,000 less annually than comparable hired managers, but are handsomely compensated with “socioemotional” wealth. “While $22,000 seems like a large penalty, there are non-financial rewards they experience working for the family […]

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Barley’s genome now two-thirds sequenced

Aug. 26, 2015 at 7:55 pm CDT

A team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside says it has reached a new milestone in its work on sequencing the barley genome. In a release Tuesday, the researchers said they have sequenced large portions of the genome that together contain nearly two-thirds of all barley genes. Because […]

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Cattle herd still shrinking in StatsCan estimates

Aug. 21, 2015 at 5:47 pm CDT

The size of Canada’s cattle herd is still in decline and almost a quarter smaller than its peak in 2005, Statistics Canada reports. The federal statistics agency on Thursday released estimates showing the herd at 13 million cattle on farms on July 1 this year, down 2.1 per cent from […]

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