Reading Time: < 1 minute The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal by two dairy-processing giants to overturn minimum standards for milk content in cheese sold in Canada. The Nov. 24 ruling closes the book on efforts by cheese manufacturers to change the ration of whey protein to casein ratio, which would allow them to use more whey cream […] Read more
Top Court Closes Book On Milk Minimums In Cheese
Wheat Growers To Consider All-Class Agency
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta s wheat growers will be asked to consider the idea of a new checkoff-funded commission backing variety and market development across all wheats grown in the province. A steering committee, for what would tentatively be called the Alberta Wheat Commission, was formed in December and plans to consult growers this winter on their views. […] Read more
Redford Shuffles Minister Deck
Reading Time: 2 minutes Premier Alison Redford has appointed Evan Berger, MLA for Livingstone-MacLeod, as the new minister of agriculture and rural development. Berger replaces Jack Hayden who has been appointed the new minister of tourism, parks and recreation. Berger will be the fifth Alberta minister of agriculture in the last eight years. Berger was first elected to the […] Read more
Willow Burner Heats Research Station
Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers at the Agroforestry Development Centre in Indian Head, Sask. are testing a furnace using willows harvested using a modified baler that cuts and bales the willows in a single pass. The bales are then allowed to dry, and after six months dropped into a haybuster tub grinder to be made into chips. Researchers hope […] Read more
Bayer Juggles Canola System Costs
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bayer CropScience is cutting the cost of Liberty herbicide but increasing the price on InVigor canola seed for 2012, saying the change will give growers more flexibility to manage resistance. “We are providing growers with an even more economical resistance management tool and the increased freedom to choose higher labelled rates or a more economical […] Read more
Waterlogged Prairie Growers To Get $30-Per-Acre Aid
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rain-soaked crop producers in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta can expect payments of $30 per acre for land that either couldn’t be seeded or that was seeded then drowned this year. The federal and three Prairie provincial governments on Aug. 4 announced about $448 million for an AgriRecovery program, in part to compensate growers on their […] Read more
Enbridge Makes Large Donation To 4-H Canada
Reading Time: < 1 minute Enbridge Ltd., Canada’s largest pipeline operator, used the occasion of the Calgary Stampede to donate $260,000 to support the centennial celebration of the 4-H movement. 4-H began in Canada in Manitoba in 1913, with the first 4-H club in Alberta established at Olds in 1917. To launch the 100th anniversary celebrations, 4-H Canada unveiled a […] Read more
Students Demonstrate Ingenuity
Reading Time: 1 minute Alberta’s cattle industry is joining the ranks of a surprisingly diverse range of industries and organizations that owe appreciation to a group of Alberta technical students. And, the best may yet be to come: upcoming changes to the technology behind the students’ innovations may offer still more benefit to the cattle industry. The students, who […] Read more
Five New Dairy Producers Get Startup Quota
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Milk says five new dairy producers across Alberta will be loaned quota to help alleviate some of the startup costs normally incurred when starting a dairy farm. Under Alberta Milk’s New Entrants Assistance Program, the five were chosen from a process to help decipher the ones who would have the most success. They provided […] Read more
Feds fund Cargill for waste processing at High River
The federal government has announced a grant of $10 million to Cargill Meat Solutions for its plant at High River, Alberta. The funds are for purchase and installation of new equipment designed to safely dispose of specified risk materials (SRM), landfill trash, and compost material to produce energy, while producing energy in the form of […] Read more
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