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Pencils And Green Thumbs: Learning Horticulture On The Prairies

By Ashlee Espenell April 7, 2011

The horticulture industry in Canada is thriving. In 2008 it represented $5.78 billion in agricultural cash receipts – 14 per cent of the total – and $3.85 billion in exports, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. On the Prairies, horticulturalists work in greenhouses and nurseries, help to improve fruit and vegetable production, and tackle landscaping

News

Audits Are Key To Credible Animal-Welfare Program

By Alexis Kienlen February 10, 2011

If you want to prove you’re treating animals humanely, then set clear and measurable standards, avoid fuzzy language in audits, and let independent observers from the outside world see what you’re doing. That was the advice that renowned animal behavioural scientist Temple Grandin delivered to the recent Animal Welfare Forum held at the University of

Hogs, News

Pork Industry Innovators Recognized

By Meristem Release February 10, 2011

The winners of this year’s F.X. Aherne Prize for Innovative Pork Production at the recent Banff Pork Seminar include Jules Poiron and Warren Toles of Manitoba-based AcuShot Inc. and Steve Brandt of Steve’s Livestock Transport. “The innovations developed by each of this year’s award winners are important contributions to the pork production industry,” says Ruurd

Livestock

Animal Welfare Is Of Global Importance

By Alexis Kienlen February 10, 2011

Animal welfare is increasingly on consumers’ radar screens, and is now starting to be seen as a standard of good business, says a University of Calgary animal-welfare specialist. Animal-care standards are being used to differentiate between products and are creating favourable trading opportunities for countries with the best ones, Dr. Ed Pajor told the recent

News

Farm Aid Showdown Looms

By Ron Friesen February 3, 2011

The debate between producers and government about the future look of Canada’s farm safety net programs is about to heat up, says the head of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. Farmers want support payments to reflect their production costs. But Ottawa and the provinces are balking, said Ron Bonnett, CFA president. As a result, upcoming

News

Little Change Predicted For New Growing Forward Programs

By Ron Friesen February 3, 2011

Don’t expect any big changes in farm safety net programs after Canada’s federal-provincial agricultural policy agreement runs out in two years. “More of the same,” is James Rude’s prediction for future business risk management (BRM) programs under a new Growing Forward framework. Growing Forward with its so-called “suite” of BRMs – AgriStability, AgriInvest, AgriInsurance and

Opinion

Letters – for Jan. 20, 2011

By John Fefchakvirden January 20, 2011

A report worth reading In the Jan. 13 issue of the Co-operator,Doug Faller, policy manager for the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan, gives a comprehensive report on his take of the “Interim Report on the Rail Freight Service Review.” This report is readily found by putting this preceding sentence into your computer search engine. You will

News, Oilseeds

U OfA Survey Finds More Clubroot

December 16, 2010

Asurvey of 341 fields by the University of Alberta has found 66 new cases of clubroot in 2010. More than 500 Alberta fields are now infected with clubroot. Last year, Alberta found about 50 more fields with the crop disease. “Certainly it’s a disease that’s not going away,” Alberta oilseed specialist Murray Hartman said in

Beef cattle, Livestock

New Book On Managing Prairie Rangeland

By Commodity News Service December 2, 2010

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has released an updated publication calledManagement of Canadian Prairie Rangeland.The book was written by Arthur Bailey, professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, Duane McCartney former forage and beef systems specialist at AAFC’s Lacombe Research Centre, and Michael Schellenberg, forage and range plant ecologist at AAFC’s Semiarid Agricultural Research Centre in

Crops

Weed Science Meet Looks At Risk Of Runaway Crops

By Daniel Winters November 25, 2010

Creating super varieties through genetic modification and introducing new crops could open a Pandora’s box of problems, according to some leading weed scientists. Farmers have long battled introduced crops such as kochia – a drought-tolerant, prolific forage that is now one of the most abundant weeds in North America. “The invasion by crops is not

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Pencils And Green Thumbs: Learning Horticulture On The Prairies

Audits Are Key To Credible Animal-Welfare Program

Pork Industry Innovators Recognized

Animal Welfare Is Of Global Importance

Farm Aid Showdown Looms

Little Change Predicted For New Growing Forward Programs

Letters – for Jan. 20, 2011

U OfA Survey Finds More Clubroot

New Book On Managing Prairie Rangeland

Weed Science Meet Looks At Risk Of Runaway Crops

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