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New website against weeds launched

May. 28, 2024 at 2:59 pm CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Producers have a new website to bookmark if they’re looking for weed information on the Prairies. The Western Grains Research Foundation has announced the official launch of a weed monitoring hub, prairieweeds.com. The website will be the new digital host for resources, data, weed maps and research […]

Gene editing race, illegal seed use in crosshairs at World Seed Congress

May. 28, 2024 at 1:45 pm CDT

By John Greig

From the World Seed Congress: The gene editing race

May. 28, 2024 at 1:19 pm CDT

Dutch government plans to vaccinate poultry against bird flu

May. 28, 2024 at 10:14 am CDT

By Reuters Sybille De La Hamaide

Eastern Canada’s largest beef processor on strike

May. 27, 2024 at 4:14 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

World Seed Congress addresses global supply chain challenges

May. 27, 2024 at 1:26 pm CDT

The World Seed Congress is on in Rotterdam, Netherlands with a discussion of the major issues facing the seed and crops sector. The major issues on the agenda include the challenges that the decline in free trade and globalization brings to major suppliers of seeds, the acceptance of gene editing and the technology involved in that process.

By John Greig

Farm wages, benefits have room to improve, survey says

May. 27, 2024 at 11:15 am CDT

"While some agriculture employers offered these benefits, many participating organizations do not offer any flexible work arrangements or basic benefits like sick days," CAHRC wrote in a report on its 2024 survey of compensation practices in Canadian agriculture.

By Geralyn Wichers

Canadian Border Services workers vote to strike

May. 24, 2024 at 5:18 pm CDT

Workers at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action, according to a statement released by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) earlier today.

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Canada, Mexico, U.S. and Australian cattle groups signal support for integrated beef market

May. 24, 2024 at 4:52 pm CDT

The memo of understanding, signed at trilateral meetings in Mexico last week, calls on their respective governments to invest in infrastructure and plans to protect the industry from outbreaks of foreign animal disease. It asks governments to promote livestock production as "an effect tool in land and resource management."

By Geralyn Wichers

Raw milk containing bird flu virus infects mice in study

May. 24, 2024 at 3:11 pm CDT

Feeding raw milk contaminated with bird flu to mice infected them with the virus, adding to evidence that consumption of unpasteurized milk is not safe for humans, according to a study published on Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

By Reuters