The centrepiece of the tale of a famously unconventional western Manitoba pioneer family has been erased. The vacant old farm home at the Criddle/Vane Homestead Provincial Heritage Park, about 10 km […] Read more
Storied western Manitoba farmhouse burns
Ont. cabinet shuffle reunites farm, rural affairs files
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s post-election cabinet shuffle puts the province’s agriculture and food ministry and rural affairs ministry back under one minister. Wynne on Tuesday announced Jeff Leal, the MPP […] Read more
CWB makes bid for independent SW Sask. grain handler
Shareholders in southwestern Saskatchewan’s Great Sandhills Terminal are expected to meet this summer to consider a $17.4 million offer from the grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board. […] Read more
Prairie seed grower and inventor Harvey Gjesdal, 92
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Birch Hills, Sask. for farm equipment inventor, seed grower and long-time Grainews columnist Harvey Gjesdal. Gjesdal, who died Friday at Birch Hills at […] Read more
Ag work mostly outside feds’ foreign worker plan overhaul
Canadian farms importing temporary workers won’t be subject to most of the federal government’s moves to rein in businesses’ use of temporary foreign workers. Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Citizenship […] Read more
Farm think-tank tapped out as George Morris Centre folds
Facing “challenging” financial straits, one of Canada’s best-known agriculture and agri-food research organizations has announced plans to close later this year. The board of the George Morris Centre on Thursday […] Read more
China trade trip seen clearing paths for beef, fruit, hay
A Canadian trade mission to China is reported to be paying dividends including a formal agreement through which China will move toward accepting Canadian bone-in beef. That agreement, announced Tuesday, […] Read more
Southern Alta. readies ‘de-watering’ equipment
Alberta’s provincial agriculture department is distributing pumps to communities in the province’s south to support “de-watering efforts” as waterways rise under continued rainfall pressure. Municipalities and response agencies have reported […] Read more
S. Alberta watching waterways, threat seen less severe than 2013
Faced with “significant” rainfall, parts of southern Alberta and downstream jurisdictions have again been bracing for late-spring flooding. The province said Wednesday it’s moving “pre-emptively” to co-ordinate responders and has […] Read more
Canola pest expert Lloyd Dosdall, 61
Memorial services are to be held Thursday at Sherwood Park, Alta. for University of Alberta entomologist and researcher Lloyd Dosdall, hailed especially in the Prairie canola industry for his work […] Read more
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