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Manitoba agriculture department staffers report questions coming in about seeding spring wheat in a field where the winter wheat was torn up due to poor emergence or winterkill. The main disease consideration in this situation is wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV). This disease is vectored by the wheat curl mite and both the virus and[...]

Provincial ag extension staff in Alberta are reminding wheat growers they've got plenty of economic reasons to keep a weather eye out for signs of leaf spot disease. Leaf spot diseases can decrease wheat yield by up to 20 per cent or more, as well as diminish kernel weight and in some cases reduce grade.[...]

The biggest apple packing and storage business in Eastern Canada will get a $2 million provincial loan to retool its packing system. The Nova Scotia government on Thursday announced a loan through its Industrial Expansion Fund to Scotian Gold Co-operative Ltd. at Coldbrook, just west of Kentville in Kings County. The loan will help the[...]

Alberta's government has named two farmers to the board of its new institute to explore how the province can best tap into demand for environmental goods and services. Jurgen Preugschas of Mayerthorpe and Terry Young of Red Deer will be the two farmer directors for the Institute for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment. The new[...]

Nufarm will take over marketing of Syngenta's Achieve Liquid Gold herbicide in Western Canada, the companies announced Tuesday. Achieve Liquid Gold is a tank mix of Syngenta's graminicide Achieve (Group 1) and Bayer CropScience's Buctril M (Groups 4 and 6). (Nufarm also markets a generic version of Buctril M under the name Mextrol.) The company[...]

How Alberta's farming sector can adapt to tap into growing demand for environment-friendly goods, services and processes is expected to be one of the key fields of study for a new provincially-funded institute. Premier Ed Stelmach launched the "virtual" Alberta Institute for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment on Monday with $800,000 and a budget for[...]

China's Green Food Development Centre, which certifies foods for sustainable, "green" farming practices, has approved its "Green Food" label for Chinese beer made with Canadian malting barley. The Canadian Wheat Board has been granted "Green Food" accreditation for shipments of up to 600,000 tonnes per year of Prairie malting barley, the board announced Thursday. That's[...]

The Quebec government plans to put up $600,000 over three years to fund improvements on farms in the Lake Temiscouata watershed, in hopes of helping to clear the lake's blue-green algae problem. The lake, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region near the province's borders with Maine and New Brunswick, has about 100 farms on its watershed that[...]

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has granted Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) regulatory approval to buy control of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Corp. Calgary-based CPR, which announced the ruling in a release Tuesday, noted that the board "denied all requests for conditions other than those agreed to voluntarily by (CPR)" and that the board's[...]