23 Cattlemen's Young Leaders (CYL) semi-finalists headed to Calgary for the Canadian Beef Industry Conference earlier this month, and this week, 16 finalists were announced, including: British Columbia: Ryan Scorgie - Kamloops Alberta: Becky Tees – Cochrane, Grayden Kay – Lloydminster, Jessica Sperber – Rimbey, Jesse Williams –Hanna, Katie Songer – Sylvan Lake, Luke Marshall... Read More
Category: Western Canada
WGI Westman Group has acquired the manufacturing assets from a competitor in the grain bin business. The parent company of Meridian and Behlen has bought Norstar Manufacturing's grain bin production assets, land and buildings in Morris, Manitoba, as well as Norstar's bin and tank manufacturing assets in Aylmer, Ontario. WGI president and CEO Paul Cunningham... Read More
A prototype vaccine for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv), developed in less than a year, has the pork industry hopeful for a new best management practice to aid in the fight against the devastating disease. “This is great news for the swine industry both in Canada and globally, as PEDv continues to threaten unaffected regions... Read More
Talking about strip tillage in corn is easy, but making it work in the field can be challenging. In this episode of Corn School, resident agronomist Peter Johnson sets out to find the perfect strip till berm at the recent Elgin Soil and Crop Improvement Association field demonstration day. Johnson explains that planting into 6"x6"... Read More
Many farms have bought basic drones capable of taking high resolution pictures from the sky over the last year or two. For $2,000 or less, you can buy a decent quadcopter with a regular RGB colour camera. But the RGB camera is just the beginning when it comes to collecting data with a drone, explains... Read More
With blurred lines between how pets and food animals should be treated, concerns about the use of growth promotants and antimicrobials, serious questions about environmental impacts, and let's not forget, the cringeworthy moniker 'pink slime,' the beef industry has its work cut out for it when it comes to helping consumers understand how beef gets... Read More
Cattle markets will likely continue to trend lower, although at a slower rate than we saw for much of 2015 and early 2016, according to the senior analyst with Canfax. "We've been through such a massive adjustment here, I think the bulk of the pain is over," says Brian Perillat in this interview at the... Read More
Grains in the past week have started to improve a bit as concerns over quality and a lower U.S. Dollar are supporting more international demand. The wetter weather in the Canadian Prairies is widening out quality premiums, especially in lentils and a little less so in durum, but it’s becoming more apparent with every growing... Read More
At the Saskatchewan Forage Council Annual General Meeting in Saskatoon, on July 26, the Council announced this year's recipient of the Forage Industry Innovation Award — Paul Jefferson. Jefferson is currently the vice president of operations at the Western Beef Development Centre at Lanigan, SK. He has over three decades of forage research, and a... Read More
Harvest is ramping up across Western Canada, with combines rolling — and some getting stuck due to wet conditions — in cereal and pea fields. Saskatchewan's Ministry of Agriculture issued its first yield estimates in its weekly crop report on Thursday. The ballpark expectations for most crops are above 2015 yields, as well as higher... Read More