Reading Time: < 1 minute Cargill has announced plans to build a new crop-input facility on 40 acres about 20 km outside the town of Falher, to start operations this spring. “Our customers in the area are currently being serviced out of Cargill’s neighbouring Rycroft facility” about 100 km west of Falher, said Mike Witkowicz, Cargill AgHorizons’ farm service group […] Read more
Cargill To Build Peacearea Crop Input Outlet
Flax Council To Partly Cover Growers’ Triffid Tests
Reading Time: < 1 minute Prairie flax growers will get a 50 per cent discount on the regular cost of testing their pedigreed and farm-saved seed for Triffid genetics, effective Jan. 1. The Flax Council of Canada has budgeted $1.5 million to cover half the cost, up to $100, of tests during the 2011-12 crop year to cull the genetically […] Read more
Cargill To Shut Calgary Terminal
Reading Time: < 1 minute Citing increasing urban congestion, Cargill plans to permanently close its aging Calgary grain elevator, its biggest primary terminal on the Prairies, by the end of January. “Because of the terminal’s urban location, accessibility was becoming increasingly more challenging for our farm customers,” Mike Morlock, the Mountainview farm service group manager for Cargill AgHorizons, said in […] Read more
Feds Boost Funding For Flax Testing
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s flax industry group will get an extra $3 million in federal funding for testing to help rid Canada’s flax supply of unwanted Triffid genetics. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz last month pledged the funding from the five-year, $163 million Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) for the Flax Council of Canada to improve its testing. “This […] Read more
Biodiesel Passes On-Farm Test
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Saskatchewan Research Council says a year-long demonstration project indicates no operational concerns with blends of up to 10 per cent biodiesel. The project’s main objective was to evaluate the suitability of biodiesel blends in the agricultural sector prior to a proposed requirement of an average annual two per cent renewable content in diesel fuel. […] Read more
Sundre Producer Receives Dairy Award
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Milk Producers group awarded Bruce Beattie the 2010 Dairy Industry Achievement Award (DIAA) at the Dairy Conference and Alberta Milk Annual General Meeting last November in Calgary. Beattie currently farms near Sundre and is a deputy reeve for Division 4 in Mountain View County. The DIAA celebrates individuals or organizations who have distinguished themselves […] Read more
North-Central Producers Win Environmental Award
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Kidd Brothers of Mayerthorpe are the 2011 winners of the Alberta Beef Producers Environmental Stewardship Award (ESA) presented last month at the annual meeting in Calgary. Brothers Bob and Larry Kidd work closely with their Uncle Ron Kidd, to run a mixed operation that focuses on cattle and crop production. The Kidd brothers have […] Read more
New Brunswick maple syrup plant receives funding
The New Brunswick and federal governments are providing more than $284,000 to help Canadian Syrup Inc., a maple syrup company in Elgin, N.B. build a modern and more efficient plant. The provincial government is providing $40,000 through the NB Growth Program to enable the company to build a 1,080-square-metre (12,000-sq.-ft.) plant with modern processing equipment […] Read more
MANA sells controlling interest to Chinese company
The Makhteshim Agan Group (MANA) has announced that 60 per cent of the company will be purchased by ChemChina, a large Chinese chemicals and agrochemical company controlled by the Chinese government. Sale price will be US$1.44 billion, the company said. MANA, based in Israel, is the world’s largest manufacturer of off-patent pesticides, including 17 herbicide, […] Read more
Dryness continues in Argentina
Hot weather and dryness continue to threaten corn and soy production in Argentina, where some corn crops are entering a a key growth stage, according to a Reuters report. Corn plants are starting to die in some areas and the soy crop is developing at a slower rate than normal due to parched conditions, which […] Read more
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