Alberta Farmer Staff

Reading Time: < 1 minute DeBolt-area rancher Marvin Moore will replace Tom Olsen as chair of the Bison Producers Association (BPA) of Alberta. Moore and his wife Fran operate KLB Bison Ranch at DeBolt, Alberta, 60 kilometres east of Grande Prairie where they maintain a herd of 190 bison cows, in addition to a backgrounding and feedlot operation. KLB Bison […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute A growth promotant for canola crops has picked up Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval for a new liquid formulation. BrettYoung’s BioBoost, which includes a patented strain of rhizobacteria Delftia acidovorans, is expected to be available in the new formulation, branded BioBoost Liquid, for canola growers’ use this spring. “We launched this product on a limited […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes “It is very important that we all continue to further educate ourselves on the variability of DDGS, the logistical restraints and performance benefits in livestock rations.” Ryan Slozka A British Columbia-based agricultural commodity trader has purchased a loading site in Montana to facilitate imports of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) into Canada. Rycom Trading […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re not sure if that critter eating your vegetables is a corn earworm or a beet webworm, a new guide from Bayer Crop-Science may help. Bayer is offering the booklet A Field Guide to Vegetable Insects at no charge. It identifies the most common pests of vegetable crops across Canada. The booklet contains fullcolour […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes High-school students across Canada are the target of a new campaign that suggests careers in agriculture as a way to avoid the “typical office job.” The Canadian Association of Diploma in Agriculture Programs (CADAP) has rolled out its national initiative, dubbed “Ditch the Office,” including a website and “social media” platforms such as Facebook, YouTube […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bayer CropScience has registered Tundra, a new broadleaf herbicide combining three different modes of action in one jug. Tundra is for use in spring and durum wheat and barley crops, combining fenoaxaprop-p-ethyl, bromoxynil and pyrasulfotole from herbicide groups 1, 6 and 27 respectively. “It is the only all-in-one product that eliminates the requirement for tank-mixing, […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Grain Growers of Canada want MPs on the House of Commons ag committee to remember their manners and forget their Black-Berrys. The farm organization this month issued a release calling on all political parties to “set aside their differences and engage in a more constructive debate at the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.” […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute While Alberta’s fall surveillance program for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer has turned up fewer cases than last year’s, deer with the disease were found further south and west than previously detected. Hunters have submitted more than 4,800 wild deer heads for testing since Sept. 1, 2009, the province said in a release. […] Read more