Canola growers are seeking short, medium and long-term assistance from the federal government in the wake of the loss of their top market and there appears to be a receptive ear. “Rest assured, we are loud and clear and they are listening to any and all ideas that we have,” said Rick White, president of […] Read more

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Researchers at Agriculture Canada have discovered a naturally occurring soil-borne bacteria that has the potential to detoxify deoxynivalenol or DON, a mycotoxin that affects important Canadian crops such as wheat, barley and corn. The discovery has potential to greatly reduce economic losses related to DON, a pathogen that can render infected cereal grains unfit for […] Read more

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Piles of grain left along Highway 5 in British Columbia have Warren Chayer perplexed and frustrated. “We’ve got a problem here to a certain degree of grain trucks dumping grain. I’m kind of at my wit’s end to have these grain piles all over the place and bears feeding on them and then bears having […] Read more

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Agriculture Canada is the first federal department to employ a departmental elder to help the institution navigate relationships with indigenous peoples. In 2017, Ag Canada created the indigenous support and awareness office to increase the department’s capacity to work with indigenous people, and hired elder Mervin Traverse to provide full-time elder support to the agency. […] Read more

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Red bartsia is a tremendous name for a weed. It’s also a tremendous annoyance for forage producers in Manitoba’s Interlake region. The invasive species is native to Europe and arrived in Manitoba in the 1950s, likely in a shipment to the Royal Canadian Air Force base at Gimli. Since that time, red bartsia has invaded […] Read more

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One of the largest pork companies in Canada is no longer owned by Manitobans. On April 22, HyLife announced it has sold 50.1 percent of its shares to Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF), a company based in Thailand. Itochu, a Japanese firm, will continue to own 49.9 percent of HyLife. The sale means […] Read more

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Canadian wheat growers will benefit from a recent World Trade Organization ruling, if the WTO’s dispute resolution process gets fixed, says an industry official. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week that it has won a WTO challenge against China. A dispute settlement panel found China guilty of mismanaging its tariff-rate quotas (TRQ) for […] Read more

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Canada is unlikely to benefit from the European Union’s decision to exclude agriculture from free trade talks with the United States, says an economist. European Union member states gave the European Commission the green light to start formal free trade negotiations last week, but only on eliminating tariffs on industrial products. The EU members insist […] Read more

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Denver, in late March, hosted the NOCO Hemp Expo. The event began six years ago and about 300 people attended the trade show in 2013. This year, the event attracted more than 10,000 people “There are 50,000 uses for industrial hemp,” Elizabeth Knight, one of the organizers, told 9NEWS in Denver. “From clothing to paper, […] Read more

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American farmers can get away with risk-taking that is likely to devistate reckless Canadian farmers. European farmers can also roll the dice on gambles that are likely to destroy Canadians. Each of those giant players has enormous domestic markets and a government committed to protecting producers. When foreign markets are shut off for them, it’s […] Read more

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