Beer camp. Instead of canoeing or basket weaving you learn how to make beer. And you get to taste beer – really, really good beer. It sounds too good to be true. Just imagine the campfire songs. This is not a sophomoric fantasy. This place exists and it’s run by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. ,
New York Is Big, But This Is Biggar Beer… And It’s Good
Canada, EU Flax Industries Hit Hard By Triffid Contamination
Canada has lost its lucrative food-grade flax market in the European Union due to contamination from genetically modified (GM) CDC Triffid flax, an industry official told flax growers meeting here last week. “From the food industry side Canadian flax is now excluded (from the EU),” Rick Hallock, manager of eastern meal marketing for Richardson International
CWB Returns $7.1 Billion To Farmers
“As we go forward we recognize it’s something we have to keep our eye on… to manage them (costs) to a reasonable… cost per tonne.” – BRITA CHELL Western Canadian grain farmers earned a near-record $7.1 billion from sales made through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) in the 2008-09 crop year that ended last July
Wheat Makes Some People Sick
Wheat is hailed as the main ingredient in the “staff of life,” but it makes about 14 per cent of North Americans sick, a recent industry meeting was told. That’s not the best news for Canadian farmers who grow more acres of wheat than any other crop, or North American flour millers who want people
Western Feed Grain Development Co-Op Strikes Out
David Rourke was surprised and disappointed two spring wheats proposed for the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class by the Western Feed Grain Development Co-op (WFGDC) weren’t supported for registration here Feb. 25. “I’m not sure what to say at this point,” Rourke, a WFGDC director, from Minto, Man., said after the Prairie Recommending Committee
Fewer Wheats At This Year’s Recommending Meeting
The committee that determines whether new wheats should be supported for registration had fewer candidates to consider this year than last. Members of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) reviewed the data and cast their secret ballots here Feb. 25 before their morning coffee break. A year ago it took until
Market Access Oversold
The benefits of free trade and unfettered access to world agricultural markets are being oversold to farmers, according to Daryll E. Ray, an agricultural economist at the University of Tennessee. Economic principles such as supply and demand and comparative advantage don’t work the same with food as other commodities. Food, like insulin to a diabetic,
FCWB Appealing Voters’ List Ruling
Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) is appealing a Federal Court decision upholding changes to the CWB’s voters’ list made by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in 2008. The coalition of farmers and others in support of the CWB contend Justice James Russell erred on two points in Winnipeg Jan. 29, said FCWB spokesman and
Cash On Hand Could Save The Farm
There will be more business opportunities in agriculture the next 10 years than there’s been in the last 30, according to agricultural economist David Kohl, the keynote speaker at the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium Feb. 10 in Winnipeg. But there will also be more ways to go broke, he cautioned. Farmers can protect themselves through
MCGA Members Reject Proposed Bylaw Changes
Term limits for directors with the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) were rejected at its 2008-09 annual meeting in Brandon Feb. 11. It’s not that members attending oppose the idea. “My feeling was the reason the membership turned that down was because those term limits would’ve been grandfathered so all current directors would start at