Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 21, 2008 at 12:16 pm CDT

The Alberta Pulse Growers Commission has named a pulse crop researcher as its new executive director. Sheri Strydhorst, who farms with her husband at Neerlandia, 150 km northwest of Edmonton, recently earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and has worked on nitrogen fixation and increasing the use of […]

By FBC staff

May. 21, 2008 at 12:05 pm CDT

A former top agriculture bureaucrat in the Saskatchewan government will take up a new deputy minister’s post this summer in the Yukon. Harvey Brooks, who was Saskatchewan’s deputy minister of agriculture until November 2007, will become the Yukon government’s deputy minister of economic development, effective July 17. Brooks “has experience […]

By FBC staff

May. 21, 2008 at 1:27 am CDT

Strong wind last week helped deplete soil moisture in Saskatchewan and took the soil with it in some fields in Manitoba. Saskatchewan’s ag ministry on Tuesday reported that province’s seeding at 56 per cent complete, up from the 2003-07 average of 50 per cent, with southern regions 68 to 70 […]

By FBC staff

May. 20, 2008 at 5:51 pm CDT

The Saskatchewan government will support shortline rail companies’ infrastructure projects with a new program announced Tuesday. The provincial highways and infrastructure department will put up $500,000 this fiscal year to cost-share infrastructure projects 50/50 with eligible shortline companies. Any of Saskatchewan’s eight shortline railways is eligible to apply for funding […]

By FBC staff

May. 20, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

The makers of Black Velvet whisky are selling their Quebec distillery and consolidating their Canadian production in Alberta. New York-based Constellation Spirits announced Tuesday that it will sell its Schenley Distillery and Bottling operation at Valleyfield, southwest of Montreal, to Diageo, another major player in the spirits, beer and wine […]

By FBC staff