Crops

The union representing Viterra workers has given 72-hour strike notice to the Viterra Canada Inc.  This comes after more than a year of negotiations have stalled between the company and GSU Local 1 (Viterra Country Operations and Maintenance) and Local 2 (Viterra Regina Head Office), and after GSU Local 1 and 2 rejected Viterra’s final […]

Annual meetings will be held on January 9 for Sask Wheat, SaskCanola, SaskFlax. SaskBarley and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. The meetings are at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon. Producers and interested observers can attend in-person or virtually. The SaskPulse meeting is likely to be the best attended and the liveliest. While all the crop commissions […]

Many farmers and producers might be dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones they are used to experiencing. However, with Christmas approaching and no snow in the forecast, it seems those dreams won’t be coming true. Trevor Hadwen, an agri-climate specialist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, said given the drought conditions the province […]

Bill C-234 is no longer in the hands of the senate. It’s now heading back to the house of commons with amendments tacked on that will have to be reviewed. There were the two amendments brought forward at committee to not include barn heating as part of the exemption and also to reduce the sunset […]

How to make the agriculture industry more productive was the theme of a report released by Farm Credit Canada. FCC looked at agricultural productivity, which they defined as how much inputs are used compared to how much output is produced. Inputs include labour, capital, land, and material such as fertilizer and feed; outputs include crops, […]

Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay has appointed a seasoned-veteran with Global Affairs Canada to be the inaugural Executive Director of a new trade office in Manila, Philippines.Diedrah Kelly has more than 20 years experience in various roles abroad, including  her recent role as Consul General of Canada in Mumbai, India. Prior to that, she also […]

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan released a comprehensive report that attempted to address two key issues: how much a farmer earns from food bought at the grocery store and how much those commodities are connected to food price inflation. APAS President Ian Boxall explained the Farmers and Food Price Report was the result of […]

Extreme disappointment is the reaction around the agriculture community, as Bill C-234 was amended to remove the carbon tax exemption for natural gas and propane used to heat & cool barns and other farm buildings. It was a tight vote among Senators – 40 to 39 in favour of the amendment – and once it […]

There’s more evidence of just how quickly farm equipment costs have escalated.  Manitoba Agriculture updates its Farm Machinery Guide every two years. To come up with custom and rental rates for equipment, they need the new price values of all the various pieces of equipment. A new Farm Machinery Guide has just been generated with much […]

An amendment to remove barn and greenhouse heating and cooling from a bill that would exempt propane and natural gas from the carbon price was passed yesterday in the Senate by a narrow margin. The amendment, put forward by Senator Pierre Dalphond, passed by one vote–40 Senators voted yes, 39 voted no, and none abstained. It amends Bill […]