The federal government has renewed its funding for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, committing $125 million over the next five years to help CFGB provide food assistance in parts of the world suffering from conflict and natural disasters. The federal government has provided funding for CFGB since its inception in 1983. Winnipeg MP and Minister of... Read More
Category: Western Canada
Tuesday is the big day...finally... The entire world is going to take a giant breath of relief that the U.S. election is coming to a close. The storyline is well documented, circus-like in nature — a real life made-for-TV event like no other in our popular culture and political history. For Canadians involved in agriculture,... Read More
Singapore-based pulse and grain trading company Agrocorp has announced it's moving its Canadian headquarters from Vancouver to Moose Jaw in early 2017. The company opened a $20 million pulse handling facility in Moose Jaw in 2013 — one of four plants Agrocorp operates in Canada. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was in town to make the... Read More
The struggle to get the crop off in wet conditions has left its scars on fields across parts of Western Canada, leaving farmers with tough decisions on how to manage ruts and soil compaction. A deep ripper or subsoiler might have a fit in helping fix the damage, says a biosystems engineering professor from the... Read More
Don Newman knows a thing or two about Canadian politics, having covered Ottawa as a news broadcaster with CBC for more than three decades. The former senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television covered almost every major political event in Canada from the late '70s until his retirement in 2009. Newman sat down with our own... Read More
I have a fatal productivity flaw in my life. I procrastinate on many tasks in my daily agenda. I have no idea why. Personally I hate it. People around me tend to hate it as well and I constantly try to fix the tendency. It's not an easy habit to drop. According to Rory Vaden,... Read More
What's your farm's liquidity? If you know, do you think it's enough? Could you be missing out on opportunities because of a lack of liquidity? Access to working capital, or liquidity, is just one measure of a farm's business that can be an indicator of how competitive a farm can be, says Terry Betker, president... Read More
In the last month, live cattle prices have finally stabilized and it's welcome relief for everyone in the cattle business. Fundamentally, what is supporting this stability? According to Anne Wasko, with Gateway Livestock, there are tighter cattle supplies, cattle feeders are current, carcass weights are lower than a year ago for the first time since... Read More
Grain prices entered November still above where they’ve been the past couple of months but pulled back from their October highs due to some weather premiums getting erased, farmer sales, and profit-taking on the futures board. Ultimately, with harvest starting back up in many places, bullish attitudes have softened and those who have been rolling... Read More
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it expects the investigation following the case of bovine tuberculosis in southeast Alberta will take several months to complete. Around 30 farms have been quarantined following the discovery of bovine TB by U.S. officials in an animal originating from a ranch in the southeast part of the province in…Read More