Alberta Farmer Staff

Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain handler Paterson Grain has been tapped to handle contracting and distribution for Canada’s first commercial variety of an oilseed aimed at the biofuel processing market. Saskatoon-based Agrisoma Biosciences named Winnipeg’s Paterson as its long-term partner for identity-preserved distribution of Resonance, a carinata variety developed for the Prairies’ brown soil zone. Resonance, the first carinata […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s canola industry body has gone to the federal civil service to replace the president it lost to Parliament Hill. Patti Miller, acting director general with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s farm income programs directorate in Winnipeg, is the Canola Council of Canada’s new president effective April 30. As the council’s chief, Miller replaces JoAnne Buth, […] Read more

Centralized AAFC will now co-ordinate fund delivery rather than working with regional councils

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Agriculture and Food Council of Alberta (AFC) is among the regional agriculture adaptation councils across Canada that have been told their services won’t be required by the federal government come 2014. Several of 14 provincial and regional councils — bodies now tasked with approving and distributing funding from the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Researchers in Ontario plan to wind down the breeding work on a line of hogs genetically modified for more efficient use of phosphorus in their diets. Ontario Pork, one of the key funders in the development of the “Enviropig” line at the University of Guelph, recently announced the university is “reducing the scope of its […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes A World Trade Organization panel’s ruling criticizing the U.S. government’s country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law is now under appeal from both sides of the table. The WTO has reported receiving formal notice that Canada, like the U.S., plans to appeal parts of last November’s ruling from the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB). The U.S. filed its […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal researchers have found the Prairies’ first confirmed case of glyphosate-resistant weeds in populations of kochia in three chemfallow fields in southern Alberta. Weed scientists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada confirmed that kochia plants taken from the fields have developed resistance to the broad-spectrum Group 9 herbicide, the active ingredient in Roundup, Touchdown, Credit, Polaris, […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Alberta government has set up a $5-million fund to help try to close any high-speed Internet service gaps remaining in rural areas of the province. “This is about kids who want to research homework, families that want to stay connected and farmers and ranchers who want to market their products,” provincial Agriculture Minister Evan […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Memorial services are expected to be held later this spring for the auto and ag equipment dealer whose collections of vintage iron were the basis for the Reynolds-Alberta Museum. Stan Reynolds of Wetaskiwin, Alta. died Feb. 9 in Edmonton at age 88, the provincial government reported Monday. Reynolds’ “lifelong interest in machines of all types […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute An online service allowing Canada’s farmers to quickly look up treatment data for any treatable crop pest problem has brought a substantial chunk of its offerings out from behind the pay wall. Guelph-based The Savvy Farmer has launched a “lite” version of its software. It will allow growers and ag pest control professionals access to […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers of North America and two partners are offering a new credit insurance product. The product, called MarketPower Assurance, will offer protection for non-payment by a customer for grain once it has been delivered. It is being offered by FNA, Atradius Credit Insurance NV, and Pangaea Global Risk Management, and is similar to insurance used […] Read more