Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced a change to the Advance Payments Program (APP) that aims to help producers finance record high input costs heading into the 2022 planting season. The federal government is temporarily waiving the requirement that cash advances issued prior to seeding be disbursed in two instalments — 60 per cent... Read More
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With some southern Alberta farmers already in the fields seeding, many producers are still waiting ?— and for good reason ?— as the weather across the Prairies can, and has, turned on a dime. The unpredictability that is spring weather is being demonstrated perfectly in Saskatchewan this week. The southwest portion of the province was... Read More
Changes have been made to the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program, announced earlier this week by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. The Program Workforce Solutions Road Map is an initiative that marks the next step in an ongoing effort to adjust and improve the TFW Program to ensure it continues to meet the... Read More
Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) is calling on all parliamentarians to step-up action on current supply chain challenges. Valuable crop inputs, such as fertilizer, are in jeopardy of not reaching farms in time for the busy spring planting season. "Policymakers, farmers, and other stakeholders in the agriculture value chain need to work together to respond... Read More
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency lists six confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Ontario, as of April 5th. Two of the six cases are in backyard poultry flocks. Currently, there are two control zones set up. Movement of poultry or poultry products in or out of a control zone requires a special permit,... Read More
Bree Kelln has been named to a new research chair position at the University of Saskatchewan. The Beef Industry Integrated Forage Management and Utilization Chair position was created to address a gap in forage research identified in 2012, that suggested that advancements in the Canadian forage industry meant advances in forage had not kept pace... Read More
Medicine Hat, Alta.-based Helicopter Air Lift Operation (HALO) will be offered guaranteed funding and a contract with Alberta Health Services, moving from a fee-for-service model. HALO will get more than $1 million in annual funding. Fort McMurray, Alta-based Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation (HERO), although already in receipt of provincial funding, will double its current annual... Read More
Romantic dates in Hawaii with your own personal chef and sunset massages sounds nice and all, but let's be real — sorting livestock and fixing fence is a lot more telling of a person and, potentially, the compatibility of a couple. CTV has announced a new reality show, Farming For Love, a series that will... Read More
As the ground thaws and the daylight hours get longer, many in the grain market had their eyes out for the annual United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Prospective Plantings report on March 31. And there were some surprises in the report. U.S. corn acres were estimated at 89.5 million acres, which is down 4... Read More
Firefighters in Ontario and Quebec will receive additional training when it comes to farm safety, risks and rescue, thanks to a $45,000 donation from G3 to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association’s (CASA) BeGrainSafe program. Safety on the farm should always be centre stage but regardless of experience and precautions taken, accidents do happen and we... Read More