Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Advanced Education has granted its approval to Lethbridge College’s Agriculture Business Risk Management (AgBRM) certificate program. The program was launched a year ago, and those completing it were initially awarded a credential of academic achievement. The provincial certificate approval provides a variety of benefits, including making students eligible for student loans. The program was […] Read more
Agriculture risk management program approved
Working with producers top priority for irrigation research chair
Willemijn Appels wants to focus on research projects ‘that will really benefit local producers'
Reading Time: 2 minutes Calling all Alberta irrigators — Lethbridge College’s new irrigation science chair wants to know about your experiences and challenges with agricultural water management. In March, Willemijn Appels took up her new posting, which was created with a $3.1-million gift from the estate of Lloyd and Dorothy Mueller two years ago. “My job over the last […] Read more
Donation supports ag technician lab
Reading Time: < 1 minute Western Tractor Company is making a donation worth $750,000 to Lethbridge College for its Agricultural and Heavy Equipment Technician apprenticeship program. The gift will support the college’s new trades and technologies facility through the creation of the Western Tractor Technology Lab — an advanced agricultural technologies room inside the first phase of the new building. […] Read more
Cattle price insurance premiums up from last year
Increased volatility in the CME cattle futures market makes it more expensive to protect prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cattle price insurance for the 2016 calf crop is now available from Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) until May 31, 2016 at a little higher cost than the same time last year. Bruce Viney, risk management specialist at Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, says the higher premiums directly reflect a higher level of risk and volatility. […] Read more
Family donates $100,000 for heavy equipment bay
Reading Time: < 1 minute A family-owned and -operated farming and custom harvesting business has given $100,000 to establish a heavy equipment bay at Lethbridge College. Taylor Harvesting Ltd. has operated out of southern Alberta for 30 years. “My son, Darren and I are both alumni of the college and agree that Lethbridge College provides hands-on training, teaches business skills, […] Read more
Help for managing risk in cattle operations
Modules will range from financial literacy and market cycles to currency and market dynamics
Reading Time: 1 minute Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association has partnered with Lethbridge College to develop a business-risk management curriculum. The programming, available in class, online or in a blended format, will start in fall 2015 as part of the Cor Van Raay Agribusiness Program. “Developing this important curriculum with ACFA and other producer groups will ensure that we are […] Read more
Lethbridge College to set up farm BRM curriculum
One of the first initiatives to be set up in Lethbridge College’s new agribusiness program will be a business risk management curriculum, drafted in a new partnership with the province’s cattle feeders association. The college and Alberta Cattle Feeders Association announced Wednesday they’ll jointly develop programming to be “offered in a variety of delivery modes […] Read more
Record gift boosts irrigation program at Lethbridge College
Gift of $3.1 million from the estate of Lloyd and Dorothy Mueller to fund irrigation program and research chair
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agricultural programming at Lethbridge College will benefit from a record-setting $3.1-million gift from a family whose Alberta roots go back to the province’s earliest days. The gift from the estate of Lloyd and Dorothy Mueller will be supplemented with $1.9 million from the college to establish the Mueller Program in Irrigation and the Mueller Applied […] Read more
Multimillion-dollar gift for ag-business program
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of southern Alberta’s most prominent farm entrepreneurs has donated $5 million to establish an agribusiness program at the University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge College. Cor Van Raay and his late wife, Christine, settled in the Iron Springs area of southern Alberta in the early 1960s, purchasing a half section of cropland and later adding […] Read more
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