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New website against weeds launched

By Alexis Kienlen May 28, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – Producers have a new website to bookmark if they’re looking for weed information on the Prairies. The Western Grains Research Foundation has announced the official launch of a weed monitoring hub, prairieweeds.com. The website will be the new digital host for resources, data, weed maps and research under the Prairie Weed Monitoring

Dan Jenkin is vice president of Regulatory and Government Affairs for Pairwise, a gene editing company. Photo: John Greig

News, Special coverage

Gene editing race, illegal seed use in crosshairs at World Seed Congress

European Union pushes for alternative seed coatings in a bid to reduce microplastics

By John Greig May 28, 2024

Canada is now green on global maps shown at the World Seed Congress in Rotterdam. There’s regulatory certainty for gene-edited crops after regulations were announced in April. That means Canada can play a part the rapid growth of innovation around the world.

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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Dutch government plans to vaccinate poultry against bird flu

Two vaccines have proved effective in in research but haven't been tried on-farm

By Reuters, Sybille De La Hamaide May 28, 2024

Bird flu vaccines for laying hens are effective in practice, the Dutch government said on Tuesday, while confirming plans to vaccinate poultry against the virus.

Livestock, News

Eastern Canada’s largest beef processor on strike

Union says a Cargill plant in Calgary could soon take similar action

By Jonah Grignon May 27, 2024

Nearly 1000 workers at Cargill’s beef processing plant in Guelph hit the picket lines this morning, as workers strike in an effort to gain better compensation.

Marco van Leeuwen is the president of the International Seed Federation and managing director of seed company Rijk Zwaan. Photo: John Greig

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World Seed Congress addresses global supply chain challenges

By John Greig May 27, 2024

The World Seed Congress is on in Rotterdam, Netherlands with a discussion of the major issues facing the seed and crops sector. The major issues on the agenda include the challenges that the decline in free trade and globalization brings to major suppliers of seeds, the acceptance of gene editing and the technology involved in that process.

News, News & Opinion

Canada-U.K. free trade talks comatose

TRADE | Upcoming U.K. election offers little short-term hope for revived negotiation

By Robert Arnason May 27, 2024

The two countries have been trying to negotiate a revised U.K.-Canada free trade agreement that would replace the temporary deal established in light of Britain’s exit from the European Union. “Brexit” cut the U.K. out of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU. That three-year deal was based on Canadian principles and the wording of CETA. 

Photo: deimagine/iStock/Getty Images Plus

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Farm wages, benefits have room to improve, survey says

Agriculture wages lag behind fields like construction, manufacturing, transport; jobs may lack basic benefits

By Geralyn Wichers May 27, 2024

"While some agriculture employers offered these benefits, many participating organizations do not offer any flexible work arrangements or basic benefits like sick days," CAHRC wrote in a report on its 2024 survey of compensation practices in Canadian agriculture.

File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)

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Canadian Border Services workers vote to strike

By Glacier FarmMedia Staff May 24, 2024

Workers at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action, according to a statement released by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) earlier today.

CCA pesident Nathan Phinney (right) with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president Mark Eisele (left) and Confederación Nacional de
Organizaciones Ganaderas president Sr. Homero Garcia de la Llata. Photo: Canadian Cattle Association/X

Livestock, News

Canada, Mexico, U.S. and Australian cattle groups signal support for integrated beef market

By Geralyn Wichers May 24, 2024

The memo of understanding, signed at trilateral meetings in Mexico last week, calls on their respective governments to invest in infrastructure and plans to protect the industry from outbreaks of foreign animal disease. It asks governments to promote livestock production as "an effect tool in land and resource management."

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Raw milk containing bird flu virus infects mice in study

By Reuters May 24, 2024

Feeding raw milk contaminated with bird flu to mice infected them with the virus, adding to evidence that consumption of unpasteurized milk is not safe for humans, according to a study published on Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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New website against weeds launched

Gene editing race, illegal seed use in crosshairs at World Seed Congress

Dutch government plans to vaccinate poultry against bird flu

Eastern Canada’s largest beef processor on strike

World Seed Congress addresses global supply chain challenges

Canada-U.K. free trade talks comatose

Farm wages, benefits have room to improve, survey says

Canadian Border Services workers vote to strike

Canada, Mexico, U.S. and Australian cattle groups signal support for integrated beef market

Raw milk containing bird flu virus infects mice in study

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