Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) has announced $110,291 towards CBS Bio Platforms' development of enhanced, sustainable feed. RDAR funding will drive research led by CBS Bio Platforms, a leading international feed technology company headquartered in Calgary, to develop processes that release previously inaccessible plant components and make them usable in poultry and swine diets. The... Read More
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The Canadian government has not yet decided how it will respond to an invitation to join a U.S.-led coalition of countries promoting "sustainable productivity growth" in agriculture. The productivity-focused coalition championed by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the UN Food System Summit in September is seen as countering the European Union's Farm to Fork... Read More
Cargill has served its unionized employees working at the High River processing facility with a lockout notice, set to begin at 12:01 am on December 6, 2021. The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 had previously served Cargill with a strike notice with December 6 as the deadline. In a letter dated November 25,... Read More
Olds College and the University of Saskatchewan (USask) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at Canadian Western Agribition at Regina, Sask. The MOU's purpose will be to collaborate in joint activities related to automation and increased incorporation of digital data in agriculture. It will cover a five-year period and will be governed by a... Read More
With the announcement of a potential fifth wave of COVID-19, the FarmTech Foundation of Alberta is postponing its 2022 conference. The decision was made after consultation with the hosting organizations Alberta Barley, Alberta Canola, Alberta Pulse Growers, and the Alberta Wheat Commission. The group says that postponing the 2022 conference will allow them to create... Read More
This story has been edited to include the vote result. With a strike deadline looming on December 6, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 (UFCW) who work at Cargill's High River beef processing plant have voted against a new contract offer this week. The union that represents over 2,000 workers at... Read More
Protein Industries Canada (PIC) has announced a new project to strengthen the use and understanding of fermentation processing technology in ingredient and food processing. The Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre (Food Centre), the University of Saskatchewan, the Global Agri-Food Advancement Partnership (GAAP) and Ag-West Bio are creating a new fermentation and training program at the... Read More
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has expressed its shock over the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) decision to suspend all seed potato exports out of P.E.I., and all potato movement from P.E.I. to the U.S., following a ministerial order announced Monday, November 22. Potato wart is a soil-borne fungus that can lay dormant for... Read More
For the second consecutive year, Thunder Bay, Ont. dairy farmer Peggy Brekveld will lead the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the province's largest general farm organization. Brekveld was elected president by OFA's board of directors after the conclusion of the organization's annual general meeting on Monday, Nov. 22. Mark Reusser and Drew Spoelstra were re-elected as... Read More
The Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) has announced its winning wheat growers after completing its pilot project year in 2021. Grain Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Michigan Wheat Program, Michigan State University, and the University of Guelph, launched the Great Lakes YEN to help farmers and the industry... Read More