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A Deep, Enduring Connection With The Agricultural Community

By Garnet Etsell August 20, 2009

The Co-operators is a key long-standing example of farmers working for farmers. Canadian farmers have long understood the importance of banding together. In this current economic climate, the need for farmers to work together is especially important. Farmers have a long history of interacting with co-operative organizations such as The Co-operators. Intrinsically linked to the

Crops

Haskap Plantings Double In 2009

By Lorraine Stevenson August 20, 2009

Getting to know Blue Honeysuckle FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Are all edible Blue Honeysuckle plants Haskap? No. Only selected cultivars released by the University of Saskatchewan are Haskap because the Japanese evaluators considered them to be of high enough quality for the Japanese market. There are many other varieties of Blue Honeysuckle on the market, but

News, Oilseeds

Canola Investment Soars

By Laura Rance-Unger July 30, 2009

The canola race is heating up. Monsanto Canada broke ground on a $10-million research facility at the University of Manitoba Monday becoming the third company to announce a major expansion in canola research and development on the Canadian Prairies in as many weeks. Ryan Baldwin, Monsanto’s lead researcher for seed and traits, said canola has

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Push For GM Wheat Resurrected

By Allan Dawson May 21, 2009

Five years to the month after Monsanto shelved its controversial Roundup Ready genetically modified (GM) wheat, farm groups in Canada, Australia and the United States are pushing for the “synchronized introduction” of biotech wheat. The Grain Growers of Canada, Wes tern Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) and Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission are leading the

Cereals, Opinion

Viterra Attempts To Go Global

By Rod Nickel May 7, 2009

Atakeover of Australia’s ABB Grains Ltd. by Viterra Inc. could transform the Canadian grain company into a global powerhouse, but it also runs the risk of repeating mistakes made in a previous attempt at foreign expansion. Viterra, Canada’s largest grain handler, has offered up to A$1.64 billion (US$1.16 billion) for ABB, a major Australian grain

Livestock

Veterinary College’s Expansions Funded

April 23, 2009

The federal Western Economic Diversification agency has pledged over $2.7 million for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine to expand its diagnostics lab and renovate one of its clinic facilities. The WCVM, based at the University of Saskatchewan, is now completing a two-storey diagnostics addition and basement, expected to add about 3,000 square metres of

Cereals, Livestock

Poultry Processing To Roll Into B. C. Interior

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

The federal government’s plan to diversify parts of B. C. where the mountain pine beetle has eaten into the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for the Cariboo-Central Interior Poultry Producers

News

Conservation Tillage Story A Template For Innovation

By Laura Rance-Unger April 9, 2009

“You have technological things on top of economics on top of policy on top of psychological factors and this is what creates innovation.” – MURRAY FULTON When Prairie farmers think of conservation tillage, they think of things like economics, weed control and crop rotations. When academics like the University of Saskatchewan’s Murray Fulton think of

Crops, News

Summerfallow Was An Accident Of History

By Laura Rance-Unger April 9, 2009

Historians have dutifully chronicled the 1885 Battle of Batoche in Saskatchewan for its role quashing the Métis uprising led by Louis Riel. But less well known is how it caused the newly arrived agrarian settlers to take a wrong turn in soil management – one that would prove devastating to future generations and take more

Cereals, News

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

By Rod Nickel April 9, 2009

Amarketing strategy to give Canadian wheat an identity like the iconic Juan Valdez for Colombian coffee growers is a long-term attempt to increase demand, but one grain expert says it will be a stiff challenge. The Canadian Wheat Board, which has a government-granted monopoly on wheat and barley sales from Western Canada, the country’s major

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