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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.[...]

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[...]

Farm Business Communications came away with 11 national awards Saturday at the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation awards banquet in Courtenay, B.C. The Farm Business Communications division, based in Winnipeg and owned by Vancouver's Glacier Ventures International, operates this website and is publisher of Country Guide, Grainews, Canadian Cattlemen, the Manitoba Co-operator, Alberta Farmer Express and[...]

Yield trending and yield cushioning are among the changes recommended in a new review of Saskatchewan's provincial crop insurance program. The province hasn't yet specified what changes it will make on the basis of the review, prepared for the province by Meyers Norris Penny (MNP). But Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud said in a release Monday[...]

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[...]

A new poll by Ipsos Forward Research before the Oct. 14 election puts Canadian farmers' support for the federal Conservatives at 59 per cent overall, well ahead of the pack but still down six points from 2006. The poll, conducted online from Aug. 22 to Sept. 6 with 856 members of "Producers' Perspectives: The Ipsos[...]

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[...]

Funding for organic farming, "green" farming, farmer co-ops and farm safety nets are on Jack Layton's to-fund list in the New Democratic Party's new agriculture platform. NDP leader Layton released the party's full platform Sunday in Toronto, with just over two weeks before a federal election. Among other points, the NDP's platform proposes a series[...]