Insights and Stories on Training

CAHRC puts out funding call for Indigenous training initiatives

Jan. 9, 2024 at 4:45 pm CST

The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) is looking to fund agriculture training programs for Indigenous participants this winter, it announced today.

Think outside the agriculture box for labour, ag and tech leaders say

Oct. 26, 2023 at 6:35 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Artist rendering of the Prairie Crops and Soils and Crops Research Facility.

Feds, Manitoba pledge $6.4M to ag research facility

Jul. 26, 2023 at 9:46 am CDT

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Olymel restarting hog slaughter at Red Deer

Mar. 4, 2021 at 2:50 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Alberta offers equivalency plan, grants for aspiring truckers

Dec. 6, 2020 at 9:22 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Montreal’s veterinary college to study eastward expansion

Sep. 5, 2020 at 5:33 am CDT

With a eye on expanding livestock veterinary services in the Lower St-Lawrence and Gaspesie, the Quebec government is backing a feasibility study to bring veterinary studies to the region. The province on Thursday announced assistance of $627,946 for 2019-20 for a feasibility study making a business case to offer the […]

By Dave Bedard

Plant-protein processor’s new processing plant gets grant

Aug. 17, 2020 at 8:19 pm CDT

The federal and Manitoba governments have added a seven-figure contribution to their support for a new facility to process plant proteins from canola and peas. Merit Functional Foods will put the additional money toward “new equipment purchases that will support the transformation of raw inputs into value-added goods.” The unspecified […]

By Dave Bedard

Alberta’s provincial meat inspectors to train for federal duty

Apr. 2, 2020 at 7:57 am CDT

Provincial meat inspectors in Alberta could soon be seconded to federally inspected packing plants under a new work-sharing arrangement between the province and Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The federal and Alberta governments announced Wednesday they would partner to “increase food inspector capacity” in the province and thus “ensure the continuous […]

By GFM Staff

Field monitoring systems to cast wider Canadian net

Dec. 11, 2019 at 10:05 pm CST

Farmers will soon get a new entry point in the Internet of Things (IoT) as a new company brings field monitoring tools and services to the Canadian market. Austrian tech firm Pessl Instruments and Winnipeg-based Glacier FarmMedia, the owner of this website, on Wednesday announced a new joint venture, Metos […]

By GFM Staff

Alberta extends deadline again for farm trucker training

Jul. 4, 2019 at 9:36 pm CDT

Alberta farmers who want the Class 1 license needed to drive commercial-scale tractor trailers but haven’t yet met the new training requirements can now apply for another extension to do so. The provincial transportation department on Friday announced further extensions are now available for farmers and farm workers seeking Class […]

By GFM Staff

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Insights and Stories on Training

CAHRC puts out funding call for Indigenous training initiatives

Think outside the agriculture box for labour, ag and tech leaders say

Feds, Manitoba pledge $6.4M to ag research facility

Olymel restarting hog slaughter at Red Deer

Alberta offers equivalency plan, grants for aspiring truckers

Montreal’s veterinary college to study eastward expansion

Plant-protein processor’s new processing plant gets grant

Alberta’s provincial meat inspectors to train for federal duty

Field monitoring systems to cast wider Canadian net

Alberta extends deadline again for farm trucker training

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