Insights and Stories on General

USDA plans more pandemic programs for disadvantaged farmers

Mar. 24, 2021 at 8:05 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday it will dedicate at least US$6 billion to help smaller-scale and socially disadvantaged farmers who were hurt by the pandemic, along with producers of organic food and other specialty crops. The agency said it would also increase by […]

New U.S. trade chief Tai focused on CUSMA, China ties in calls

Mar. 22, 2021 at 9:31 pm CDT

By Andrea Shalal David Lawder

New federal program to help develop on-farm carbon sinks

Mar. 18, 2021 at 8:36 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Yes or no now on AgriStability changes, ag minister says

Mar. 17, 2021 at 9:47 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

New quarantine rules lined up for temporary foreign workers

Mar. 16, 2021 at 8:33 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Ag equipment maker buys WHL’s Regina Pats

Mar. 15, 2021 at 3:58 am CDT

Regina-based machinery manufacturer the Brandt Group is levelling up from partner to full owner of the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats. Brandt, which since 2005 has held the naming rights to the Pats’ home arena, Brandt Centre — formerly the Regina Agridome — said Friday it has approval from the […]

By Dave Bedard

Farmland appreciation continues through pandemic year

Mar. 15, 2021 at 2:48 am CDT

Economic churn across Canada from the global COVID-19 pandemic didn’t faze the country’s real estate market — nor its farmland market in particular — in 2020, according to the latest review from the federal farm lending agency. Farm Credit Canada on Monday released its 2020 Farmland Values report, showing an […]

By Dave Bedard

U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

Mar. 11, 2021 at 3:12 pm CST

New York | Reuters — Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago U.N. food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen […]

By Michelle Nichols

No credit expected for farmers’ past work in new carbon market

Mar. 5, 2021 at 8:13 pm CST

Draft regulations for Canada’s new carbon market show Canadian farmers won’t receive credit for removing any greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the atmosphere prior to 2017. Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson on Friday announced the offset market, to be known as the Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System. A 60-day public […]

By D.C. Fraser

Spring road bans coming into effect across Prairies

Mar. 5, 2021 at 7:41 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Warming temperatures and melting snow across Western Canada may cause some disruptions to grain and livestock movement over the next few weeks as seasonal spring road restrictions come into effect across the Prairies. The annual spring road restrictions set axle weight limits for vehicles moving on certain roads […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin