President Trump received his strongest warning to date from the U.S. agriculture sector on Wednesday after it was reported the White House was finalizing a plan to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement. After speaking with Prime Minister Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto late Wednesday, the White House issued a statement... Read More
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New Holland says it has set a new world record for soybean harvesting in Brazil — specifically the record for soybeans harvested in an eight hour period. (Yep, there's apparently a record for that!) The new standard was set on April 5 in the Bahia State, where a CR8.90 combine harvested 439.73 tons (16,156 bushels)... Read More
Expanding its capacity in collecting and modeling agronomic information, BASF has announced it's acquiring ZedX Inc. The Pennsylvania-based company specializes in developing weather, crop, and pest models that rapidly translate data into agronomic insight, which can be used for decisions on spray timing, for example. “Growers are embracing cutting-edge technology and tools that can help... Read More
One of North America's most well-known farmers was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Chris Soules, Iowa farmer and star of the TV show "The Bachelor" in 2015, was involved in a rear-end collision between a pickup truck and a tractor on Monday night in which the tractor driver... Read More
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced federal funding of up to $5.2 million over the next two years for the Agricultural Youth Green Jobs Initiative on Tuesday. The program makes funds available to farms and organizations involved in agriculture to hire youth for work that's deemed beneficial to the environment, and follows a $1.9 million commitment... Read More
The Trump administration expressed its displeasure with Canadian dairy policy several times on Monday, coinciding with the announcement of new countervail duties on imports of Canadian softwood lumber. "It has been a bad week for U.S.-Canada trade relations," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in a statement. "Last Monday, it became apparent that Canada... Read More
The Canadian Grain Commission has come out with a plan to cut its user fees by 24 percent as of August 1, 2017. In the April 22nd edition of Canada Gazette, the CGC proposed reducing the amount charged for its official inspection and weighing services by $0.44 per tonne or just under $10 million (from... Read More
Five years after the end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, a group of farmers that fought to keep the CWB's single desk is back in court seeking a new class action lawsuit. Andrew Dennis, a farmer from Brookdale, Man., has filed a Statement of Claim with the Court of Queen’s Bench in Winnipeg for... Read More
Another late snowfall is making a tough situation worse, especially in central and northern parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Much of Western Canada has received a fresh layer of snow in the last day or two, just as fields in some areas were starting to dry up after snow and rain during the Easter weekend.... Read More
Federal funding for 20 research projects that aim to help Canadian farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions was announced on Friday. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay was at the University of Alberta in Edmonton to highlight the work that will be done through the $27 million Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program (AGGP), originally announced last year. "These new... Read More