BIG GIFT The $11-million donation from rancher and businessman Bill Siebens includes 8,000 acres of rangeland, a historic brand, and an 1885 ranch house
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta rancher and businessman Bill Siebens has donated the 8,000-acre southern portion of the historic OH Ranch to the Calgary Stampede Foundation. The $11-million gift also includes the OH brand and the 130-year-old ranch’s historic buildings — an 1885 ranch house, the old cookhouse and replica North West Mounted Police cabin. “Alberta has been my […] Read moreIconic ranch donated to Calgary Stampede Foundation
Monsanto supports CFGB growing projects
Inputs Monsanto’s $60,000 donation will support 86 CFGB growing projects in four provinces
Reading Time: < 1 minute Monsanto Canada has donated $60,000 worth of farm inputs to Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) growing projects his year. Community growing projects are a unique way for people to contribute grain and other agricultural commodities to help people who are hungry around the world. A typical project involves a group of people working together to farm […] Read moreCFIA pulls back on fertilizer tests
Reading Time: 2 minutes staff / Citing its focus on protecting health and safety, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will no longer regulate the effectiveness of fertilizers sold in Canada. The agency confirmed May 25 that from now on, its activities in the Canadian fertilizer and supplement sectors “will concentrate on verifying that products are safe for […] Read more
Pushing trade with Morocco
Reading Time: < 1 minute Moroccan pulse importers and Canadian pulse exporters are working to remove high tariffs that are restricting pulse trade. “Moroccan pulse importers and Canadian pulse exporters have a common view on the value of improved market access for pulse trade between Canada and Morocco,” said Gordon Bacon, CEO of Pulse Canada in a release. “We need […] Read more
High Prairie curling club wins award
Reading Time: < 1 minute The High Prairie Curling Association (HPCA), is the 2012 winner of Monsanto Canada’s “Build a Better House” Community Curling Club Improvement Program. The grand prize of $10,000 will help upgrade its four-sheet curling facility which was built in 1969. The HPCA has three improvement projects planned including roof repairs; adding additional insulation to the building; […] Read more
Olds College receives grant for livestock research
Reading Time: < 1 minute Olds College, the University of Alberta and their industry partners have received $945,000 for a three-year, $945,000 project entitled “Use of Genomic Tools to Improve Feed Efficiency in Purebred Hereford Cattle” from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) under the new College-University Idea to Innovation program. This will mark the start of […] Read more
Scrapie confirmed at same Ontario farm as missing herd
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the sheep remaining at a quarantined southeastern Ontario farm where 31 sheep disappeared last month has been confirmed positive for scrapie. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, in a release Apr. 27, confirmed the fatal nerve disease in a sheep that had recently died on the farm operated by Linda Montana Jones near Hastings, […] Read more
SemBioSys prepares to wind down company
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Calgary biotech firm that used genetically modified safflowers as factories to develop a possible cardiovascular drug and a plant-based insulin has braced itself for the end of the road. SemBioSys Genetics on Apr. 30 said a strategic partnership deal signed in October with Chinese pharmaceutical firm Tasly has sputtered as the companies “have been […] Read more
Enrolment opens for CWB’s new-crop programs
Reading Time: 2 minutes staff / The sign-up period is officially underway for wheat, durum and malting barley growers wanting to get in on the refurbished CWB’s new-crop pool and cash contracts. The CWB on March 29 opened the new-crop pools and programs for the 2012-13 crop year, which begins Aug. 1. “Farmers can rely on the CWB to […] Read more
Alberta company first to sell Canadian alfalfa to China
Dairy demand China needs more forage for its goal of doubling milk production by 2015
Reading Time: 2 minutes Green Prairie International, a global wholesale supplier of quality forage products located in Alberta, has become the first Canadian company to ship alfalfa into the Chinese market. Twenty containers of Canadian alfalfa hay have been shipped to China and 40 more containers have been ordered; the total estimated $600,000, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said in […] Read moreCyber-Savvy Farmer
