Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, as of March 16, is going online with the outcomes of its enforcement work on food safety. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Mar. 16 announced the CFIA will issue reports on such activities, including information such as: food imports that have been refused entry into Canada; federally registered food […] Read more
Food Safety Infractions To Be Published Online
Volunteer Corn Reduces Yield In Corn And Soybean Crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ohio’s Purdue University Extension Service reports that volunteer corn is causing major yield reductions to both corn and soybean crops. With 70 per cent of Indiana’s annual corn crop resistant to glyphosate, volunteer corn has become increasingly difficult to control. “We’re rotating Roundup Ready corn with our soybean crop, which is typically 95 per cent […] Read more
Manitoba To Phase Out Gestation Stalls By 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes Major and possibly expensive changes lie ahead for Manitoba hog producers as the result of a new road map for the industry’s future. The Manitoba Pork Council plan released earlier this month commits the province’s 700 pork producers to eliminating sow gestation stalls within the next 15 years. “Manitoba Pork commits to encouraging producers to […] Read more
Feds Boost BIXS Beef Carcass Data Efforts
Reading Time: 1 minute The information side of the beef business is getting nearly $8 million from the federal government. The largest chunk of cash, $5.3 million, will be used to help farms, feedlots and packing plants update their information technology systems to ensure they remain compatible with the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS). BIXS is a beef information exchange […] Read more
Pea Exports Seen Gaining As China Drops Selenium Rule
Reading Time: 2 minutes A “major constraint” against exports of Canadian peas and other pulse crops to China has been lifted with the removal of that country’s maximum limit for selenium in imported foods, Canada’s pulse-industry agency reports. Pulse Canada on Mar. 7 confirmed that China removed its cap on selenium levels effective Feb. 14, fulfilling a commitment Beijing […] Read more
News – for Mar. 14, 2011
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a legal volley from cheese-making giants Kraft Canada and Saputo against federal regulators’ compositional standards for cheese. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency claimed the win for official Ottawa as per a ruling by Justice Robert Mainville, who dismissed Kraft and Saputo’s joint appeal and awarded costs to the […] Read more
Voluntary CWB Proposed In Bill C-619
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ontario MP Bruce Stanton has introduced a private member’s bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s single-desk marketing authority. Bill C-619 would give farmers the ability to “opt out” of having to market their wheat and barley destined for export or domestic human consumption through the CWB for at least two years at a time. […] Read more
Plain Old Boxcar? Not A Chance
Reading Time: 2 minutes It doesn’t look like much to the modern eye, but Boxcar 119462 was once cutting-edge technology and a marvel of its day. This boxcar, built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, was part of an order of 3,000 Fowler boxcars placed by CP in 1914. The Fowler, named after one of its designers, was […] Read more
Pursuit-Like Herbicide Picks Up Registration
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ag chem firm MANA Canada has been granted registration for its off-patent version of BASF’s Group 2 herbicide Pursuit, to be available for the 2011 growing season. MANA, the Canadian arm of Israeli chemical company Makhteshim Agan, will sell its imazethapyr herbicide under the brand name Phantom. Among crops grown in Eastern Canada, Phantom is […] Read more
Alberta Growers Recognized For Quality Malt Barley
Reading Time: < 1 minute Three Alberta farms are among 10 winners of the Canadian malting barley industry’s Elite Barley program which honours the best malt barley producers in Canada. The awards went to Bork Farm of Chipman, Verdant Hutterite Colony of Drumheller and Sunshine Hutterite Brethren of Hussar. “We want to celebrate the best growers and all that this […] Read more
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