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Alberta sacks AFSC board over top brass’ expenses

Alberta’s government has dismissed the board of its farm financing and crop insurance agency following an internal probe into “expense and procurement practices” for senior executives. Three unnamed senior executives at Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) have also been “relieved from active duty,” the province said in a release Monday. The province on Monday named

Livestock

Canada’s PSP buys stake in tag maker Allflex

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 10, 2016

Reuters — PSP Investments, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds, said Friday it had acquired a significant minority stake in Allflex Group, the world’s biggest maker of electronic tags for animals, from private equity firm BC Partners. The purchase was overseen by PSP’s new team in London, led by Simon Marc, and is likely to

Livestock, Weather

Alberta lifts off-roading ban

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 21, 2016

Citing an outbreak of “wet and cool weather” across parts of the province, reducing the overall fire hazard, the Alberta government has lifted most of its restrictions on off-highway vehicle (OHV) use. The province lifted its OHV ban for “much of the province” except for its forest areas around Lac La Biche and Fort McMurray,

Livestock, Weather

Farming uses exempt from Alberta off-roading ban

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 7, 2016

Alberta’s new provincewide ban on recreational use of off-highway vehicles (OHVs) in provincial parks and on other public lands won’t apply to their use in farm work. The provincial government announced the temporary OHV ban Friday as “another tool… to help prevent the spread of wildfires,” on top of Thursday’s provincewide fire ban and its

(Government of Prince Edward Island via Flickr)

Livestock

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 4, 2016

Relying until now on the services of the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island’s government has named a new in-house provincial veterinarian. The province on Tuesday named Dr. Carolyn Sanford to fill the post, in which she’ll oversee policy and regulatory issues related to animal health and welfare, including livestock and poultry as well as

Confederation Building, St. John’s, N.L. (Gov.NL.ca)

Livestock

Newfoundland, in cost-cutting mode, scraps agrifood fund

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 15, 2016

A fund meant to support large-scale agrifood projects in Newfoundland and Labrador is a victim of spending cuts in the province’s latest budget. Finance Minister Cathy Bennett on Thursday mapped out an overall $8.48 billion provincial budget for 2016-17, with an expected deficit of $1.8 billion and a list of “measures to reduce spending.” For the

Cattle being herded at the Southern Plains Experimental Range outside Fort Supply, Oklahoma. (Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Oklahoma senators seek tougher cattle rustling penalties

By GFM Network News April 12, 2016

Oklahoma City | Reuters — Oklahoma lawmakers sent a measure to the governor on Tuesday to increase penalties for cattle rustling, in an attempt to curtail a crime associated with the Wild West that has seen a resurgence from ranch hands stealing livestock to feed their drug habits. The bill approved by the Oklahoma Senate

Livestock

Bayer to consider shedding animal health unit

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger April 12, 2016

Leverkusen, Germany | Reuters –– Bayer might look into selling its animal health division if it continues to struggle to find takeover targets for the business, the German drugmaker’s incoming chief executive said. “Animal Health is a business that we have been trying for many years to strengthen strategically, that is to say inorganically. That

Swaledale, a dale (valley) in Yorkshire. (CIA.gov)

Livestock

England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 11, 2016

London | Reuters –– Farmland prices in England fell by 3.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year — the largest quarterly decline since 2008, weighed partly by uncertainty ahead of the June 23 referendum on European Union membership, estate agent Knight Frank said. Knight Frank’s Farmland Index fell to 19,538 pounds (C$35,881)

Livestock

Investor group launches campaign to curb antibiotic use in food

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein, Martinne Geller April 11, 2016

Reuters — Fifty-four large investors managing one trillion pounds (C$1.84 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry used by 10 large U.S. and British restaurant groups. McDonalds and JD Wetherspoon were among those to receive a March 15 letter from institutions including Aviva Investors

Daily Network News

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California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

Horses

Alberta sacks AFSC board over top brass’ expenses

Canada’s PSP buys stake in tag maker Allflex

Alberta lifts off-roading ban

Farming uses exempt from Alberta off-roading ban

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

Newfoundland, in cost-cutting mode, scraps agrifood fund

Oklahoma senators seek tougher cattle rustling penalties

Bayer to consider shedding animal health unit

England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

Investor group launches campaign to curb antibiotic use in food

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