Close to 90 per cent of wheat acres on Canada’s Prairies are seeded to spring wheat or durum with intent to go into bread or pasta, the Canadian Wheat Board […] Read more
Food wins food-vs.-fuel debate on Prairies: CWB
Listeria found again at Maple Leaf plant
Just a few weeks after deep-cleaning and reopening to a far heavier testing regime, Maple Leaf Foods’ Bartor Road meat processing plant in Toronto has yielded a few product samples […] Read more
CWB opens CWRS fusarium program
Prairie wheat growers with fusarium-infected No. 2, 3 or 4 Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat on their hands can now sign up for the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2008-09 fusarium […] Read more
N.S. wind atlas goes online
Nova Scotia property owners considering wind turbines for their land can use a new online wind atlas to rate their site’s potential. Researchers from Universite de Moncton and the applied […] Read more
Calculator to gauge horses’ disease risks
The University of Guelph’s horse health centre plans to launch an online calculator program with which horse owners can pencil out the impact of their farm practices on their animals’ […] Read more
N.L. to fund cranberry acreage development
Aiming to defray some of the high start-up costs of cranberry production, Newfoundland and Labrador’s government is taking applications for funding under a new cranberry industry development program. The program, […] Read more
COOL confusion costs producers: CCA, CPC
Watching its rules be reinterpreted on “a weekly basis,” Canada’s cattle and hog producers say U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) legislation is now chilling cross-border trade volume and prices. The Canadian […] Read more
Alta. ships PID forms for AFRP II funding
Alberta livestock producers will either soon have or be able to order the forms needed for their second round of benefits under the Alberta Farm Recovery Plan (AFRP) II. The […] Read more
Sask. boosts water funding for dry southwest
The Saskatchewan government will use AgriRecovery funds to boost funding for ranchers and farmers in the parched southwest to build infrastructure to supply water. Provincial Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud announced […] Read more
U.S. FDA approval eyed for canola proteins
A Canadian food research and development firm says it’s confirmed that its two canola protein isolates will meet U.S. safety standards as food ingredients — and will now see if […] Read more
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