by Breanne Baker | Jul 15, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Within five years, Canada’s seed industry should not expect CFIA involvement in the field inspections of seed crops. That was the message from CFIA officials at last week’s annual meeting of the Canadian Seed Growers Association. Predictably, seed growers are not...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 14, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Mexico has agreed to a 60-day delay in implementing new restrictions on wild buckwheat in Canadian canaryseed. Speaking yesterday at the Canadian Special Crops Association annual meeting in Saskatoon, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced that he had talked to his...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 13, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Cattle producers were excluded from the federal-provincial Excess Moisture Program announced as an AgriRecovery initiative. The day of the $30 an acre announcement, the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association issued a news release saying it expected governments to...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 12, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Viterra has released its own update of seeded acreage in Western Canada, along with how the reduction in acres may affect the financial results of the company. Viterra estimates that eight million acres went unseeded and another two million acres have been lost to...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 9, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Rarely do governments act so quickly and decisively. I was amazed when the meeting of federal and provincial agriculture ministers resulted in a program announcement for flooded Prairie farmland. Usually the closing news conference to these meetings is short on...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 8, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Genetically modified wheat has moved one step closer to reality. BASF and Monsanto are expanding their research cooperation to include GM wheat. Their plan is to introduce the first yield-enhanced wheat to the market at some point after 2020. Varieties with stress...
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