A second sow operation in Manitoba’s livestock-intensive southeast is confirmed to be the province’s fourth farm with porcine epidemic diarrhea. The provincial chief veterinary officer confirmed the latest case on Wednesday last week, following a confirmation at another sow barn in the same region on Sept. 19. Most of Canada’s 69 farms confirmed with PED […] Read more
PED confirmed in another SE Man. sow barn
Agricorp extends Ont. winter wheat deadlines
Ontario’s farm program delivery agency has put a seven-day extension on deadlines for seeding and reporting winter wheat acres in the province’s south. Citing “advancements in farm management techniques and hardier varieties of wheat,” Agricorp on Friday announced a new set of deadlines for winter wheat and organic winter spelt. For all fall-seeded crops, the […] Read more
Ont. ag minister mandated to cut farmers’ neonic use
Ontario’s premier has made it part of her agriculture minister’s mandate for the coming crop year to “meaningfully” cut down farmers’ use of neonicotinoid pesticides. In her mandate letter for Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal, dated Thursday, Premier Kathleen Wynne tasks him to work with Environment Minister Glen Murray, other ministers and “industry partners and stakeholders” […] Read more
A chance to see how beef is raised down south
The Grey Wooded Forage Association is planning its first trip to Argentina
Reading Time: 2 minutes Members of the Grey Wooded Forage Association are planning a trip to a new continent, and they’re looking for people to join them. The group will be hosting its inaugural tour abroad to Argentina in February 2015. The tour is focused on Argentina’s beef industry, and participants will get to visit farms, research centres, and […] Read more
Canada, EU wrap free trade talks
The ratification process can get underway on a Canada/European Union free trade deal now that negotiations have formally concluded, the federal government announced Friday. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso released the negotiated text of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in […] Read more
Wrigley exec to lead McCain’s in Canada
The president of the Canadian arm of confection maker Wrigley is moving into the head office at McCain Foods’ Canadian business. Shai Altman will take the post of McCain Foods’ president, Canada, effective Oct. 20, replacing Darryl Rowe, who’d held the post since 2010 and announced late last year he’d be leaving the company. Altman, […] Read more
Deadline for AgriStability supplementation forms is Sept. 30
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Agriculture Financial Services Corporation is reminding farmers the submission deadline for supplementation forms for AgriStability is Tuesday, Sept. 30. Forms will be accepted after this date but a late filing penalty may apply. If producers are in a claim position, they can file up to Dec. 31 but would be subject to a penalty […] Read more
Canadian Grain Commission looking for CPS Red or Red Winter wheat samples
Program helps marketers, and farmers who participate receive a free grade and protein analysis
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re growing Canada Prairie Spring Wheat or Canada Western Red Winter Wheat, then the Canadian Grain Commission wants your samples. “These are minor classes of wheat that not all producers grow,” said Twylla McKendry, program manager for Analytical Services with the Canadian Grain Commission. “We don’t have a lot of people in our database […] Read more
Fruit, veg exporters fear loss of U.S. payment default coverage
The U.S. could potentially yank the payment default protection it grants to Canadian exporters of fresh fruit and vegetables if Canada doesn’t extend the same courtesy southward, produce growers warn. Under the U.S. Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Canadian produce suppliers exporting into the U.S. have had the same rights as U.S. suppliers to recover […] Read more
Retired Thompsons Ltd. chief Wes Thompson, 87
A small family service is to be held Friday for the second-generation head of storied Ontario commodity handler and ag retail firm Thompsons Ltd. Wes D. Thompson, son of company founder Wesley G. Thompson and president of the family business from 1950 to 1993, died Monday in hospital in Chatham, Ont. of unspecified causes at […] Read more
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