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Canada withdraws proposed measures banning certain rifles, shotguns

Critics said plan was unfair to farmers, hunters

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 4, 2023

Reuters — Canada has withdrawn proposed amendments to gun legislation that would have banned certain types of rifles and shotguns, the government said on Friday, after opponents alleged the prohibitions unfairly targeted farmers and hunters. The amendments were added to a gun control package that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced last year after the

Dr. Digvir Jayas. (University of Manitoba photo)

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Acclaimed Manitoba stored grain researcher now Alberta bound

Digvir Jayas named president at University of Lethbridge

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 2, 2023

A leading Canadian researcher and expert in safe storage of grain is headed westbound and up to the head office at another Prairie university. Dr. Digvir Jayas, currently on sabbatical as professor and vice-president (research and international) at the University of Manitoba, will become president and vice-chancellor at the University of Lethbridge effective July 1

File photo of a provincial border marker in Lloydminster. (Michele Gervais/iStock/Getty Images)

Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot

Trade barrier on pause for two years for food businesses serving Lloydminster

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 31, 2023

The idea of loosening interprovincial trade in certain foods made by provincially-inspected processors will get a major test in one of Canada’s very few province-crossing municipalities. The Saskatchewan, Alberta and federal governments on Jan. 19 announced the start of a two-year pilot project within the limits of Lloydminster, a city of over 31,000 people straddling

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari speaks at the Dakar summit under the theme “Nourrir l’Afrique” (Feed Africa) hosted by the African Development Bank and the African Union Commission on Jan. 25, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Ngouda Dione)

Markets

Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa

Continent facing record-level hunger

By Bate Felix, GFM Network News January 28, 2023

Dakar | Reuters — Development partners have committed US$30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than

Siddika Mithani — shown here in an illustration from a series of “superhero trading cards” published in 2022 featuring CFIA researchers and staff — has retired from her post as CFIA president. (CFIA via Twitter)

CFIA president retires

NFU calls for next agency boss to prevent 'regulatory capture'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 26, 2023

Canada’s federal regulator for the food and animal and plant health sectors is in the market for a new president following the incumbent’s retirement. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed its president, Dr. Siddika Mithani, has retired from the federal public service effective Jan. 20. Mithani has led CFIA since February 2019, having served

File photo overlooking the marina and sea wall at Half Moon Bay, about 30 km south of San Francisco. (JasonDoiy/E+/Getty Images)

Crops

Suspect in California farm worker shootings appears in court

Early evidence suggests workplace grievance, authorities say

By GFM Network News January 25, 2023

Redwood City, Calif. | Reuters — A California farm worker accused of shooting seven people to death near San Francisco, some of them his co-workers, made his first court appearance on Wednesday after he was charged with murder in the state’s second deadly gun rampage in recent days. Chunli Zhao, 66, the lone suspect in

Highest temperatures over the seven-day period ending Jan. 23, 2023. (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Weather

Prairies’ warmer spell to be usurped by arctic front

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 24, 2023

MarketsFarm — While the Prairies have so far this month experienced rather non-January-like temperatures, a cold front coming south from the Arctic will soon descend on the region, according to Scott Kehler, president and chief scientist of Weatherlogics in Winnipeg. “What we are seeing is a big change in the weather pattern. For most of

File photo of wild birds on Pokeshaw Rock in northeastern New Brunswick. (Bouillante/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock

Avian flu pops back up in New Brunswick

B.C. only other province with cases so far this month

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 19, 2023

Highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic birds in Canada appears to be in check so far this month in most regions of the country outside southwestern B.C. — but for one recent case in Atlantic Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed an outbreak of high-path avian flu in what it describes as

A frozen lake has its own austere beauty.

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The madness called ice fishing

SAFETY | Catching fish is always fun, but winter weather and ice conditions need to be respected

By Tim Sopuck January 18, 2023

Awhile back I asked our outdoorsy family friend, Terri, if she wanted to come ice fishing. She deferred, saying, “I like fishing. It’s the ‘ice’ part that I don’t like.” Like Terri, I think there is some mild insanity on display in the growing interest in the ‘hardwater’ fishing season, which really took off during

A submerged and abandoned car is seen in floodwaters near a vineyard after winter storms at Forestville, California on Jan. 13, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Fred Greaves)

Weather

California rainstorms fade as death toll reaches 20

Drought to remain an issue for much of state

By GFM Network News January 17, 2023

Reuters — The parade of atmospheric rivers that pounded California for three weeks finally faded on Monday, enabling the state to begin lengthy repairs to roads and levees as the White House announced U.S. President Joe Biden planned to survey the damage. The nine consecutive rainstorms that inundated California in succession since Dec. 26 killed

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally, hogs rise

Extreme heat can overcome honeybees’ ability to regulate hive temperature Arizona study shows

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat, corn end lower on broad commodities slump

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