Insights and Stories on Livestock

Apr. 8, 2009 at 4:01 pm CDT

The Alberta government plans to pare back its spending on agriculture and rural development to about $1.14 billion in the coming year, down from its projected 2008-09 expenses of almost $1.4 billion. That will include a net reduction of 91 employees, following both the province’s “value review” of the department […]

Apr. 7, 2009 at 6:15 pm CDT

Farmers and other residents of Manitoba’s Interlake and Westlake regions who took the brunt of overland flooding from heavy rains in 2008 are now eligible for more disaster financial assistance. The provincial government on Tuesday announced DFA program funds for the flooding last August and September will increase to $3 […]

Apr. 7, 2009 at 4:07 am CDT

The Ontario government plans to invest $24 million over three years in the logistics needed to put Ontario-grown food into schools, hospitals, other institutions and the food service sector. “Ontario’s food producers grow, raise and produce fresh, high-quality food products that are among the best in the world,” provincial Ag […]

Apr. 7, 2009 at 3:47 am CDT

The federal government’s plan to diversify regions of British Columbia where infestations of mountain pine beetle have hit the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for […]

Apr. 6, 2009 at 4:05 pm CDT

Funeral services were held Saturday at Wingham, Ont. for former Ontario agriculture critic and respected farm broadcaster Murray Gaunt, who passed away in hospital at London on March 31 at age 73. Gaunt, who received his Ontario Agricultural College diploma in 1956, farmed and then worked for a few years […]