Award winnng fleece on display at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, November, 11, 2024.

Canadian wool innovation contest opens application window

$10,000 prize champions creative, commercially viable Canadian wool projects, including apparel, interiors, agriculture, science, and other fields

The Second Annual Canadian Wool Innovation Prize (CWIP), worth $10,000, is accepting applications for commercially viable innovation projects or businesses until October 31, 2025.The Campaign for Wool Canada / Canadian Wool Council, with support from the Worshipful Company of Woolmen are sponsoring the contest that bridges the Canadian and British wool industry.

OSCIA executive director removed

OSCIA executive director removed

Organization spokespeople say recent staffing decisions part of a wider effort to reduce hierarchical and siloed structure

For the third time in two years, the position of Executive Director is vacant at the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA). In a letter to members Sept. 30, […] Read more


Two people look over a wire fence at an ostrich.

B.C. ostrich owner condemns violence near embattled farm

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One of the owners of Universal Ostrich near Edgewood, B.C. condemned the alleged assault and arson against one of the farm’s neighbours said to have been committed by a protestor. The farm is in a legal battle with federal authorities over a cull order of the farm’s ostriches, which contracted avian influenza.