Immigration cuts, meant to ease strained housing and social services, could hurt the country's labor pool, some industry groups said yesterday.
Canada’s immigration cuts could hurt labor pool, industry groups say
U.S. vice-presidential hopeful called pro-ag, pro-trade
Minnesota governor Tim Walz is familiar with Canada
Canada might have a noted supporter of international trade as a vice-president should Kamala Harris win the U.S. presidential election in November. Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who Harris named as her vice-presidential pick.
Trump’s trade threats a global concern
Importers and exporters around the world are uneasily analyzing what a 10 per cent tariff, or other border measures likely in a second Donald Trump U.S. presidential term, could mean for trade.
Soybean industry has choices
Soy Canada executive director outlines big picture for the crop
Glacier FarmMedia – Canada’s soybean industry must navigate forks in the road. During a late June meeting in Dauphin, Man., Soy Canada executive director Brian Innes told growers they should […] Read more
Farm connections flagged in infectious disease spread
Shared equipment, workers may play roles in interstate spread
Glacier FarmMedia – When Dr. Deb Murray arrived at a sow barn to deliver the news that porcine epidemic diarrhea virus had broken out, she immediately organized an emergency management […] Read more
First Nations should demand at-market lease rates: Lerat
First Nations need to stop leasing out their land to non-Indigenous farmers for below-market prices, says farmer and band councillor Terry Lerat of Cowessess First Nation in south-central Saskatchewan. Instead, bands should be getting every penny they can for the farmland they own and using that money to get themselves back into farming.
Ag in Motion Innovation Awards handed out
The competition was made up of five categories, each including three contestants. Their innovations ranged from a giant manure bio-gas tank-trailer to a simple plastic calf castration card, from analytical management systems to hand-held leaf-scanning apps.
PRRS hog virus now tougher to control
Vets say the virus is more virulent and longer lived
Glacier FarmMedia – Today’s PRRS isn’t yesterday’s PRRS. That means pig producers and veterinarians should mutate their approaches in the same way that Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome is mutating. […] Read more
Cereals Canada moves forward with building plans
Cereals Canada is moving ahead with its plans to building the Global Agriculture Technology Exchange.
Membership crisis rocks Cereals Canada
Official launch of campaign to establish the Global Agriculture Technology Exchange has been postponed
One medium-sized grain company has definitively decided to leave the organization, a large one has triggered a two-year option to depart if it chooses and other grain companies may have also triggered two-year potential-departure options, sources say.
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