Tag Archives: Agriculture
Conservatives urge Liberals to expedite promised relief for canola farmers
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say they're hearing from frustrated canola producers who are still waiting for financial relief recently promised by the Liberal government. The ...
May 23, 2019
Restriction lifted for Canadian beef exported to Japan
MEDICINE HAT, AB -- The last restriction on the 2005 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis have been lifted.Japan will now import beef from cattle more than 30 months old, marking an end on re...
May 22, 2019 Cattle in feedlot -- LethbridgeNewesNOW
Hemp industry looks to Ottawa for regulation changes
OTTAWA -- Health food and hemp industry groups want Ottawa to change the regulations for C-B-D to treat the cannabinoid as a natural health product rather than a drug.The Canadian Health Food Associat...
May 17, 2019 Photo credit to Agriculture Canada
It may be protein based - but, it is not beef!
CALGARY, AB -- Cattle producers across the country are backing Quebec colleagues who have filed a complaint over a popular new meatless burger that is being advertised as ``plant-based meat.'' The Que...
May 16, 2019 Credit to Beyond Meat website
On-farm canola stocks increase while wheat stocks drop
SASKATOON -- Statistics Canada reports canola stocks were 10 million tonnes at the end of March, an increase of 10.5 per cent compared with the previous year.China's decision to suspend Canadian canol...
May 08, 2019 LethbridgeNewsNOW
Wide range of farmland prices across Alberta in 2018
LETHBRIDGE -- A new report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC) found the average value of Canadian farmland rose nearly seven per cent last year.But the agricultural lender says that growth rate is likely t...
May 03, 2019 LethbridgeNewsNOW.com
China suspends export permits from two Canadian pork plants - including Red Deer
TORONTO - The federal government says it has been notified that China has suspended the export permits of two Canadian pork exporters.A spokeswoman for Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says a ...
May 02, 2019 Pigs feeding - courtesy of the Canadian Pork Council
Federal government boosts loans for canola farmers amid tensions with China
OTTAWA -- The federal government is rolling out changes to a payment program for canola farmers to help those affected by China's decision to ban the Canadian product.Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude...
May 01, 2019 Canola field - LethbridgeNewsNOW
Alberta RCMP reminding locals to secure their yards this spring
EDMONTON, AB - Cropping season is about to begin in Alberta which means farmers will be spending long hours out in their fields, and the RCMP want everyone to be as safe as can be this spring. For man...
Apr 28, 2019 Photo Credit: Alberta RCMP
Farmers weighing canola conundrum with spring seeding underway
CYPRESS COUNTY, AB - It's a spring tradition Bradley Betcker and his family have become accustomed to over the years, seeding tens of thousands of acres at the T Bar Cattle Company southwest of Medici...
Apr 25, 2019 Photo courtesy of Bob Schneider