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Liquid Canola Inoculant Approved For Prairies

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 1, 2010

Agrowth promotant for canola crops has picked up Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval for a new liquid formulation. BrettYoung’s BioBoost, which includes a patented strain of rhizobacteria Delftia acidovorans, is expected to be available in the new formulation, branded BioBoost Liquid, for canola growers’ use this spring. “We launched this product on a limited basis

Beef cattle, Livestock

Ottawa Offers $6 Million For Beef Research

By Alex Binkley April 1, 2010

“The politics of market access often demand ministerial intervention to get over the hurdles presented.” The federal government is making $6 million available to boost research on beef cattle nutrition and productivity, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association March 22. The research will encourage “Canadian breakthroughs that make the farm gate more

Opinion

Is Salt Becoming The Next Trans Fat?

By Ronald Doering March 25, 2010

While there is always some scientific uncertainty in matters of regulatory science, in our Jan. 21 article (“Hold the salt,” Co-operator, page 5) we saw there is now a strong scientific consensus that Canadians on average are consuming more than double the recommended daily intake of sodium (1,500 mg), and that there is strong evidence

News

Manitoba Organic Alliance Pitches “Unified” Voice

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2010

brandon If conventional farmers have Keystone Agricultural Producers lobbying on their behalf, who speaks for organic producers in Manitoba? According to Priscilla Reimer, chair of the Manitoba Organic Alliance, strong producer support for MOA could create a representative, democratically elected, unified voice for the province’s growing organic sector. “MOA is to the entire organic sector

Livestock, News

Anaplasmosis Intensifies In Southeastern Manitoba

By Ron Friesen March 18, 2010

“It’s not a food safety issue.” “It’s not a food safety issue.” – Dr. Lynn Bates, Cfia Canada’s largest anaplasmosis outbreak in more than a quarter-century continues to spread in southeastern Manitoba. Eleven infected cattle herds have been found in a hot spot within the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn near the Canada-U. S. border. Another

Livestock, News, Other livestock

Riding Mountain Wildlife Cull Will Resume

By Ron Friesen March 18, 2010

An on-again, off-again wildlife cull in Riding Mountain National Park to control tuberculosis in the herd is back on. Parks Canada will kill 30 bull elk and 50 whitetail deer in a TB core area hot spot at the western end of the park in early April, park officials said last week. The wildlife cull

Beef cattle, Livestock

Canada Says BSE Cow Kept Out Of Food Supply

March 18, 2010

The Alberta beef cow that is Canada’s most recent case of mad cow disease was found dead on a farm and was destroyed without entering food or animal feed supplies, a spokesman with the Canadian government said March 11. Canada Beef Export Federation president Ted Haney, who first confirmed the case in an interview with

News

Hawaiian Queen Bee Imports To Resume

By Ron Friesen March 11, 2010

Canada and the United States have reached an agreement allowing imports of queen bees from Hawaii to resume, at least for 2010. But Canada may have to change federal legislation if it wants those imports to continue next year and beyond. Canada stopped issuing import permits for Hawaiian queen bees in October 2009 after the

Cereals, News, Poultry

Same Old For Tories In Throne Speech

By Alex Binkley March 11, 2010

The two months the Harper government spent recal ibrat ing its plans and priorities for Parliament translated into more of the same policies for agriculture and other resource industries. In the throne speech at the start of the new session of Parliament, the government promised “to ensure the freedom of choice for which Western barley

Livestock, Opinion

Wildlife Are Livestock Too

March 11, 2010

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has a reputation for focusing on the symptom, ignoring the source and accomplishing nothing. The reason why farmers in Riding Mountain National Park have suffered stress, financial loss, and had their livestock exposed to reportable diseases is because governments have covered up the reportable diseases in the park. A cull

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle strengthen Tuesday

Larkin to step down as Grain Growers of Canada Executive Director

Calling for bigger crops ahead of StatCan report

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