Reading Time: 2 minutes A company specializing in aggregating carbon credits earned by Alberta farmers has picked up investment from a Texas carbon trading firm. Houston-based Element Markets said Jan. 25 it would take an equity position in Agri-Trend Aggregation Inc. (ATAI), part of the Agri-Trend Group in Red Deer, Alta. The two companies didn’t specify the size of […] Read more
Texas Offset Firm Invests In Alta. Farm Aggregator
Province Extends Deadline For RFID Tags To Mar. 1
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s cattle producers will have until individual cattle are 10 months old to apply radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to their animals, starting March 1. The provincial government said in late December that it would repeal its Traceability Livestock Identification Regulation and replace it with a new Traceability Cattle Identification Regulation taking effect March 1, […] Read more
New Test For Sheep Parasite
Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Georgia say they have developed an improved, more efficient method to test for the most serious of the parasitic worms in sheep. The researchers say the test will allow a faster, easier and less expensive way to test for the presence and quantity of Haemonchus contortus, […] Read more
FNA Awaits Approval Process For Generics
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers of North America (FNA) says it’s waiting on federal passage of a new regulatory process for generics. “By aggressively working with crop protection partners, four technical active ingredients have been registered with Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) with a half-dozen others in the pipeline,” the group said Jan. 6. “We have four […] Read more
The Day Of The Triffids Returns To British TV
Reading Time: < 1 minute As Canadian government and industry officials attempt to get the genetically modified flax variety Triffid out of the system so shipments can resume to Europe, British TV viewers were being reminded of the sci-fi creature of the same name. In December the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) aired a new two-part made-for-TV adaptation of the 1951 […] Read more
CN Over, CPR Under Grain Revenue Caps: CTA
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway will be asked to hand over more than $680,000 in excess revenue it made handling Prairie grain during the 2008-09 crop year. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Dec. 31 announced CN’s grain revenue of $479.79 million for the crop year was $683,269 over its federally-mandated revenue cap.CNwas given 30 days to forfeit […] Read more
Dorgan Won’t Run Again For U.S. Senate
Reading Time: < 1 minute The U.S. Senate will lose a vocal opponent of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk and vocal supporter of COOL this fall. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a Democrat representing North Dakota, announced Jan. 5 he won’t seek another six-year term in elections this year. Dorgan served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives starting […] Read more
CCIA To Expand Phone, Web Services
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s national cattle identification agency plans to expand the hours of operation for its call centre and expand its website to include publications en francais. Starting Jan. 4, the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s (CCIA) call centre will operate from 6 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. MST at 1-877-909-2333 (BEEF). The CCIA website will also […] Read more
Clubroot-Resistant Seed In Good Supply
Reading Time: < 1 minute Pioneer Hi-Bred says that it has plenty of its 45H29 clubroot-resistant canola seed available to plant canola in fields most at risk in 2010. “We’re approaching 500 confirmed fields infested with clubroot, ranging from light to heavy clubroot infestations,” Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, said in a Pioneer release. “That’s […] Read more
AgriFlexibility Backs Sask. Wheat ID Technology
Reading Time: < 1 minute Anew DNA-based process to identify wheat varieties, designed with hopes that it will take over where the now-scrapped kernel visual distinguishability (KVD) standard left off, has picked up nearly $9 million in public funds. The federal and Saskatchewan governments will provide up to $7.43 million through the cost-shared AgriFlexibility fund, plus another $1.48 million through […] Read more
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