A plot of Alliance Seed’s CDC Envy CWRS wheat on display at Ag in Motion in July 2024. Photo: Dave Bedard

Canterra buys pedigreed seed firm Alliance Seed

Alliance will remain a 'standalone' brand under Canterra ownership

Canterra Seeds announced May 1 it has acquired Alliance Seed for an undisclosed amount, and will continue to operate Alliance as "a standalone brand under Canterra Seeds' umbrella, with key staff transitioning to maintain continuity and customer relationships."

Electioneering overload

Electioneering overload

This has been a more-bruising-than-usual national campaign

Reading Time: 3 minutes Grainews editor Dave Bedard says farmers might not like politics, but they need to engage in it if they want to be heard - even with candidates they might not personally support.





Lana Popham. (B.C. NDP via Flickr)

Popham returns as B.C. ag minister

Former minister shuffled back to ag file after election

Lana Popham was named Monday as minister of agriculture post by returning Premier David Eby, following the New Democrats' whisker-thin return to majority government in the Oct. 19 election.



Abbotsford-Mission MLA Pam Alexis speaks on B.C. Agriculture Day in the provincial legislature on Oct. 25, 2022. (Legislative Assembly Of B.C. video screengrab via Facebook)

B.C.’s ag minister downed in fraught election

Governing party to be confirmed next week as votes recounted

Pam Alexis, the minister of agriculture and food for David Eby's New Democrats since late 2022, was defeated in her constituency of Abbotsford-Mission in Saturday night's election by Conservative challenger Reann Gasper, by a spread of almost 2,700 votes.

Chuck Strahl, shown here speaking in the House of Commons in 2002, died Aug. 13 at age 67. Photo: CPAC video screengrab

Former federal ag minister Chuck Strahl dies at 67

A memorial service is planned for Aug. 23 in Chilliwack, B.C. for Chuck Strahl, the logger turned politician who served about a year and a half as federal agriculture minister in Stephen Harper's government, helping carry several of its policy plans through to completion.