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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Canadian Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay at Savannah, Georgia in June 2017. (Georgia Ports Authority photo by Stephen B. Morton)

As U.S., Canada spar, farm hopes ride on two men in lobster boat

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek June 15, 2018

Reuters — While Justin Trudeau vowed last week not to be pushed around and U.S. President Donald Trump called the Canadian prime minister “weak,” two key officials in their governments with a seemingly harmonious relationship were making fishing plans. On Friday, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue visited the farm of Canadian Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay

Robert Henderson, second from left, has been shuffled from health and wellness to agriculture and fisheries in P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan’s new cabinet. (PrinceEdwardIsland.ca)

P.E.I. names new agriculture minister

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 10, 2018

Prince Edward Island’s minister of agriculture and fisheries has quit the post after announcing his decision not to seek re-election. Alan McIsaac, the MLA for Vernon River-Stratford since 2007 and the province’s ag minister since 2015, announced Wednesday he won’t run in the next provincial election, scheduled for October next year. “Given this, I feel

Beef cattle, Livestock

Sobeys locks in Atlantic Beef for P.E.I. stores

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 29, 2016

Prince Edward Island’s long-beleaguered packing plant, Atlantic Beef Products, has now ramped up its slaughter and processing capacity to meet a new commitment from grocery chain Sobeys. The Nova Scotia-based grocery chain on Tuesday announced ABP’s Island View Farms is now the “primary” brand for beef sold at the five Sobeys, five Co-op and three

Atlantic salmon is one of the major species grown in aquaculture. (Troutlodge, Inc. photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Canada says GMO salmon safe for consumption

By GFM Network News May 19, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada approved a type of genetically modified salmon for sale, health officials said on Thursday, the first such animal to be cleared as safe for consumption in the country. The salmon was approved in the U.S. to be farmed for human consumption last year but has since been a source of

(Government of Prince Edward Island via Flickr)

Livestock

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 4, 2016

Relying until now on the services of the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island’s government has named a new in-house provincial veterinarian. The province on Tuesday named Dr. Carolyn Sanford to fill the post, in which she’ll oversee policy and regulatory issues related to animal health and welfare, including livestock and poultry as well as

Local news

Agriculture in the Classroom formalizes and elects chair

After more than 15 years of directing the Manitoba chapter of Agriculture in the Classroom, Johanne Ross has been elected as the chair of the national chapter

By Jennifer Paige June 5, 2015

A national chapter of Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) is now an official not-for-profit organization and has elected Manitoba’s Johanne Ross as its leader. Ross has led AITC-Manitoba as the executive director for more than 15 years. She began her new role as the chair of the organization’s national chapter on May 20. “Johanne has

Alan McIsaac, shown here last month visiting Charlottetown’s St. Jean Elementary School in his role as minister of education and early childhood development, now leads a reorganized ministry of agriculture and fisheries. (Brian Simpson photo courtesy Government of P.E.I.)

Crops

P.E.I. farms and fisheries ministries merge

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 20, 2015

A reorganization of Prince Edward Island’s government departments will see agriculture split from forestry and instead paired with fisheries. Having returned to office in the May 4 election, Premier Wade MacLauchlan on Wednesday announced his new cabinet, appointing former education and transportation minister Alan McIsaac as minister of agriculture and fisheries. As the agriculture and

P.E.I.’s Province House. (Assembly.pe.ca)

Crops

P.E.I. Liberals in need of ag minister after win

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 5, 2015

Wade MacLauchlan’s Liberals scored another majority in the Prince Edward Island legislature in Monday’s election, but will need to find a new agriculture minister. George Webster — who’d held the post from 2009 until Monday, stepping down temporarily in 2009 to recover from a mild heart attack — opted not to run again in his riding

Livestock

Veterinarian and P.E.I. ag minister Bud Ings, 89

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 27, 2015

Memorial services were held Friday in Montague, P.E.I. for Dr. Bud Ings, a “pioneer” of veterinary medicine who served as the province’s agriculture minister in the 1970s and later supported the development of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC). Ings, who died last Friday at Montague’s Kings County Memorial Hospital at age 89, “worked tirelessly to

P.E.I. Transportation Minister Alan McIsaac and John Jamieson of the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture on Thursday announced a new one-time registration option for farm trucks’ plates. (Government of P.E.I. photo by Brian Simpson)

Crops

P.E.I. to offer one-time farm truck registration fee

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 19, 2015

Prince Edward Island’s farmers, starting next month, will be able pay a one-time fee to register their farm trucks for as long as they own them. The province until now has charged a cut-rate annual registration fee of $10 on trucks weighing at least one ton (10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or more), if the trucks

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Prince Edward Island

As U.S., Canada spar, farm hopes ride on two men in lobster boat

P.E.I. names new agriculture minister

Sobeys locks in Atlantic Beef for P.E.I. stores

Canada says GMO salmon safe for consumption

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

Agriculture in the Classroom formalizes and elects chair

P.E.I. farms and fisheries ministries merge

P.E.I. Liberals in need of ag minister after win

Veterinarian and P.E.I. ag minister Bud Ings, 89

P.E.I. to offer one-time farm truck registration fee

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