Syngenta will be sharing daily harvest safety tips on Twitter using the hashtag #SafeHarvest from August 1 to October 31. The tweets will include links to farm safety videos, articles and websites. The company is asking farmers to consider retweeting these safety messages to your fellow farmers. “Social media such as Twitter provides an excellent
Using Twitter to promote a safe harvest
Cattle herd still shrinking in StatsCan estimates
The size of Canada’s cattle herd is still in decline and almost a quarter smaller than its peak in 2005, Statistics Canada reports. The federal statistics agency on Thursday released estimates showing the herd at 13 million cattle on farms on July 1 this year, down 2.1 per cent from the same date in 2014.
Ardent to buy major Ontario soft wheat mill
The owner of Canada’s Robin Hood flour mills is poised to buy the biggest soft wheat milling operation in the country. Ardent Mills, the joint North American flour venture of agrifood giants Cargill, CHS Inc. and ConAgra, announced Thursday it will buy the former Kraft Milling operation in Mississauga, Ont. from Mondelez Canada for an
Ex-Viterra chief to take Ontario’s Hydro One public
The chief executive who morphed Saskatchewan Wheat Pool from a debt-crushed grain handler into Viterra, then oversaw its sale to Glencore, has been tapped to take Ontario’s Crown-owned power utility public. Toronto-based Hydro One on Thursday announced Mayo Schmidt as its new president and CEO effective Sept. 3, replacing Carmine Marcello. “We believe that Mr.
Agricultural Hall of Fame: Clarence Baker
The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees
Clarence Baker was born to Anton and Pauline Baker on July 7, 1928 in Cromwell, Manitoba. Anton immigrated to Canada with his parents from Beckersdorf, Austria in 1896. In 1951, Clarence and his new bride, Ilene Weidman, took over the third-generation family farm which included the 240 acres of land that his grandfather had purchased
Strip till beats no till for soil improvement
Afive-year study by University of Minnesota researchers has found that strip till resulted in several improvements in soil quality compared to no till. Strip till is a hybrid of conventional tillage and no till, cultivating only the rows where seeds are planted. “You have some of the soil conservation benefits derived from leftover plant tissue
Tumour surgery to sideline CN chief
The CEO of Canada’s biggest rail network expects to be off work until late fall for surgery and radiation treatments on a precancerous tumour. Canadian National Railway’s (CN) chief executive Claude Mongeau said Wednesday he expects to have surgery either near the end of this month or early in September, to remove a rare type
Portable wheat elevators, the economical alternative
Our History: August 1927
This ad appeared in the August 1927 issue of The Scoop Shovel, the Co-operator’s predecessor publication. This portable wheat elevator was offered as an economical alternative to a country elevator at a small shipping point, and “Receive(s) from the wagon, cleans, removes dockage and loads into a railroad car or tank at 300 bushels per
Agricultural Hall of Fame: Harry Airey
Five new members of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame were inducted July 17 at a ceremony in Portage la Prairie. We’re featuring each in the next few weeks
Harry Airey was born and raised on a farm in the RM of Daly. He attended Rivers High School, and following that, he began farming with his father. In 1965, he took over the home farm and began his own mixed farming operation. Two years later, Harry married Joan Bennett. Harry and Joan have three
Promoting conservation agriculture in Africa
Canadian Foodgrains Bank will receive federal funds to scale up smallholder adoption
Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) has received $14 million from the federal government to scale up conservation agriculture programs in three African countries. The funding provided on a three-to-one matching basis, will enable the organization to assist 50,000 farmers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, up from 5,000 farmers it is currently assisting, it says in a
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