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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s final map of designated areas for the livestock tax deferral provision for the 2018 tax year, as of Jan. 30, 2019. (Agr.gc.ca)

Livestock tax deferral map expands again for 2018

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 30, 2019

Some northern and southwestern Ontario producers who had to sell breeding livestock due to drought in the 2018 tax year can now defer chunks of the income from those sales when filing their income taxes. The federal government on Wednesday rolled out its final list and map of designated regions for 2018 under its livestock

Hogs, Livestock

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 18, 2019

The probe into Alberta’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea hasn’t yet shown any paths by which the PED virus might have got to the farm — nor any new cases anywhere else in the province. The provincial government on Jan. 7 confirmed the first case of PED to appear in hogs in Alberta, at

A freight train at Manchac, La., about 75 km east of Baton Rouge. (CN.ca)

Crops

Oil on rail likely won’t interfere with grain movements

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 11, 2019

CNS Canada — When considering the pattern of how grain is shipped by rail in Canada, it’s very unlikely increased oil shipments would interfere, according to Quorum Corp. “That’s largely because the flow of grain is predominantly to the West Coast and Thunder Bay,” said Quorum president Mark Hemmes. About 80 per cent of Canadian

Hogs, Livestock

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff January 8, 2019

Veterinary officials in Alberta are now investigating the province’s first-ever outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Alberta Pork, the province’s hog producer commission, and the provincial government on Tuesday announced an outbreak of the viral disease at what was described as a “400-head hog operation.” Javier Bahamon, quality assurance and production manager for

This file photo shows a rack of blood samples being tested for bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand dairy cattle. (Lakeview_Images/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 21, 2018

Updated, Dec. 24 — Some cattle in Saskatchewan are now under federally imposed movement controls as testing for bovine tuberculosis expands to 14 domestic herds in three provinces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday the tracing of a single case of bovine TB in a beef cow from a farm in British Columbia’s southern

Beef cattle, Livestock

Six more cattle herds to be tested in TB probe

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 17, 2018

Updated, Dec. 20 — Cattle from four more herds in British Columbia and two in Alberta are now being tested for bovine tuberculosis as officials probe the country’s latest domestic case of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported the six herds are now under “movement controls” while TB testing is underway.

Crops

G3 plans new Edmonton-area grain elevator

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 15, 2018

Grain handler G3 Canada has announced its third move into Alberta, with plans for an elevator near Morinville, about 25 km north of Edmonton. The Winnipeg company said Thursday it will start construction “shortly” at its chosen site just west of town, connecting to Canadian National Railway (CN) track on the north side of Highway

Fall rye flowering in south-central Manitoba. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Weather

Fall rye’s popularity catching on Prairies

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News December 7, 2018

CNS Canada — It’s good and bad news when it comes to winter cereal acreage in Western Canada. Winter wheat acres in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are down this fall, while acreage in Alberta increased, and fall rye acres in all provinces rose. “I think a lot of the guys that were growing winter wheat have

CME August 2019 live cattle (red) and January 2019 feeder cattle (blue). (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market searching for direction

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen December 4, 2018

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were quite variable from seven days earlier. Prices were unchanged in the eastern Prairie regions; however, Alberta markets traded $3 to as much as $7 below week-ago levels. Alberta and Saskatchewan feedlot inventories are running 16 per cent above year-ago levels, so there’s limited buying power available. Calves are fleshier

Beef cattle, Livestock

Alberta cattle producers vote to keep refundable checkoff

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 3, 2018

Preliminary results in Alberta beef producers’ service charge plebiscite put a slim majority in favour of keeping their checkoff refundable. Out of 1,874 votes cast, 962 votes, or 51.3 per cent, fell in favour of a refundable service charge model, with 908 for a non-refundable model and four ballots spoiled, according to the preliminary figures

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Tag Archives Alberta

Livestock tax deferral map expands again for 2018

Alberta’s PED outbreak so far held to one spot

Oil on rail likely won’t interfere with grain movements

PEDv arrives in Alberta hogs

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

Six more cattle herds to be tested in TB probe

G3 plans new Edmonton-area grain elevator

Fall rye’s popularity catching on Prairies

Klassen: Feeder market searching for direction

Alberta cattle producers vote to keep refundable checkoff

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