A new company — a partnership between the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) and livestock technology company ViewTrak — plans to bring the newborn unsteadiness of an information exchange network to a full gallop for all Canadian livestock sectors. The as-yet unnamed private company was formed to bring the CCA’s beef information exchange system, BIXS, to […] Read more
New company set up to deliver BIXS livestock data system
P.E.I., Man. couples named Outstanding Young Farmers
After a year-long nationwide competition, a P.E.I. couple in a potato growing and processing partnership, and a Manitoba couple building a seed growing and seed retailing business, are Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2014. Andrew and Heidi Lawless of Kinkora, P.E.I., both part of a partnership producing about 1,200 acres of potatoes, and Myron and […] Read more
Hart: Alta. packer to restart with eye on premium market
A veteran of the North American beef industry says he has no doubts he can turn a long-shuttered Alberta beef packing plant into a profitable business. Rich Vesta, the former CEO of the North American beef division of Brazilian meat packing giant JBS, has set up a temporary headquarters for a new family-owned company, Harmony […] Read more
From Grainews: Grain bag unloading made simpler
Neeralta Manufacturing at Neerlandia, north of Edmonton, has this year introduced a new grain bag extractor, that not only unloads nine- to 12-foot wide grain bags but also wraps and ties the plastic into a handy bale for easy disposal — all in one easy operation. The new extractor is available in both trailer and […] Read more
Lee’s Insight: How the Stampede gets horses to buck
If you plan on being reincarnated in the next life, hope to come back as one of the bucking horses owned by the Calgary Stampede. It ain’t bad. Room and board for the rest of your life, 23,000 acres of scenic Prairie grassland over which to ponder the meaning of the universe, and during the […] Read more
Wheat is killing us or maybe saving us
Reading Time: 3 minutes I can put up with a lot of abuse, but when you start attacking the ham sandwich I enjoy for lunch, I get defensive. Dr. William Davis, a U.S. cardiologist has written a book called Wheat Belly which I understand (I haven’t read the book) describes in great detail how and why wheat and whole […] Read more
New Formulation For Pea And Lentil Inoculant
Reading Time: 2 minutes STAFF |FORT MACLEOD Becker Underwood reports good results in tests of the new XL formulation of its Nodulator pea and lentil inoculant. The 40-acre plot on the Greenwood Hutterite Colony is one of 13 field-scale trials across Western Canada for Nodulator XL, developed with a new “highly active” strain of rhizobia, says Ralph deVries, Becker […] Read more
Winter pulses give farmers another option
Many farmers struggled to get a crop in this spring, and still others were happy to have had winter cereals in rotation to take some of the squeeze off a short seeding season. With wet weather persisting in some areas, the prospect of seeding a wider range of “winter” crops in late summer may have […] Read more
Outstanding Young Farmers named for 2009
Vegetable producers from P.E.I. farming about 150 acres, and a grain farming couple from Manitoba cropping about 13,000 acres, were named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2009 at the national awards ceremony in Ottawa on Dec. 4. Greg and Tania MacKenzie operated MacKenzie Produce at Stratford, P.E.I., southeast of Charlottetown. Grant and Colleen Dyck grow […] Read more
Fertilizer And Disease Control Plots Featured At CARA Field Day
Reading Time: < 1 minute While drought conditions have forced cancellation of many field days this summer, the lack of moisture may create an ideal environment to showcase the value of micronutrients, during a field day to be held July 8 in eastern Alberta, sponsored by the Chinook Applied Research Association (CARA). The CARA field day, located west and south […] Read more
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