Reading Time: < 1 minute Southern Alberta’s sugar beet industry is taking a wait-and-see approach following a U.S. District Court ruling requiring U.S. growers to uproot all their genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready sugar beet seedlings. Andrew Llewelyn-Jones, agricultural superintendent for Lantic Sugar, said southern Alberta farmers planted about 90 per cent of the 2009 crop and all of the […] Read more
U.S. Ruling Could Affect Canadian Beets
Two Deaths Bring Calls For Safety Legislation
Reading Time: 2 minutes The electrocution of two Edmonton- area farm workers last month has raised demands for improved worker safety legislation. The accident, which occurred when the workers were moving a grain auger and made contact with a power line, has been investigated by Alberta Municipal Affairs. But Eric Musekamp of Bow Island, head of the Farm Workers […] Read more
Afghanistan Speaker At Food Grains Meeting
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta farmers are making a difference in Afghanistan. That was the message delivered to about 100 supporters of the Picture Butte Grow Project – one of 34 Canadian Foodgrains Bank projects in the province – at a recent harvest celebration dinner put on by the Prairie Tractor and Engine Club. The featured speaker was Nejabat […] Read more
Don’t Take Drinking Water For Granted
Reading Time: 2 minutes Drinking and irrigation water is a precious resource. But if you don’t know how to properly maintain a well, you may be risking contamination. Many Albertans have old wells they don’t know what to do with, or they don’t know how to properly maintain their existing wells, water expert Ken Williamson told a recent Milk […] Read more
Official Stunned By Move To Restrict Rat-Control Weapon
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s rat-free status may be at risk because of severe new restrictions on use of the main rat-control poison used in the province. Jon Hood, Agricultural Service Board fieldman for the Municipal District of Taber, said he couldn’t believe the news when he first heard it. The new restrictions follow an extensive evaluation of several […] Read more
Alberta Farmers Are Doing What It Takes To Prosper, Says Premier – for Oct. 25, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes af contributor |lethbridge Research, new technologies, and improved farm management are helping Alberta farmers and ranchers get past tough times, says Premier Ed Stelmach. Government has played its role by providing financial support, especially when disaster has struck, but producers have been helping themselves by changing the way they manage operations, keeping up with technologies, […] Read more
Truckers And Marts Urged Not To Accept High-Risk Cattle – for Oct. 25, 2010
Reading Time: 3 minutes The days are ending for making a few bucks by shipping high-risk old, thin or arthritic beef and dairy cattle. Darren Malchow, a health-of-animals insector for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Lethbridge, said the cattle industry is sending the message to all levels that the quality of animals being sent to market is vital […] Read more
Ranching A Multi-Generational Love For The Lowe Family – for Oct. 11, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes af contributor |cardston When Richard Lowe and his son Robert crossed the border in 1898 into Canada, they fell in love with the country. The appeal of land ideally suited for cattle hasn’t lessened for Jack Lowe since his grandfather and father homesteaded the family ranch, some of which is nestled against the border (about […] Read more
Nelson Family Dedication To Agriculture Covers Generations – for Oct. 11, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes af contributor |lethbridge When four brothers arrived in southern Alberta in 1904 from Utah, opportunity caught their eyes. Soon after, all four found young ladies, got married and homesteaded in the Stirling and Wrentham areas. Their father later joined his boys. Grant Nelson’s grandfather Lon was one of the group of four and Grant’s father, […] Read more
Big Soft White Spring Crop, But Quality Is A Concern – for Sep. 13, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes The prolonged cold and wet spring and heavy rainfall through the summer has many specialty crop growers pondering crop failure or major quality losses. Producers were uneasy last week as temperatures had already reached down to two and three degrees some mornings, evoking fears of an early frost that could reduce crops such as soft […] Read more
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