Glacier FarmMedia – Producers have a new website to bookmark if they’re looking for weed information on the Prairies. The Western Grains Research Foundation has announced the official launch of a weed monitoring hub, prairieweeds.com. The website will be the new digital host for resources, data, weed maps and research under the Prairie Weed Monitoring […] Read more
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New website against weeds launched
Farm business cybersecurity an ongoing concern
Collaboration, standardization and investment needed to shore up agri-food cybersecurity infrastructure
Cybersecurity is a best practice in farm business risk management, but requires collaborative support to be successful and accessible. “(Our food system) is a critical infrastructure at the intersection of every other critical infrastructure. When things go a little bit wobbly in the agri-food sector, we’re all affected,” says Janos Botschner, who leads the Cybersecurity […] Read more
U.S. committee passes farm bill draft with little support from Democrats
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of a $1.5 trillion farm spending bill late Thursday night with few Democratic votes, prolonging a standoff between the parties over key nutrition, agriculture, and climate policies.
Senate proposes third-party Commission to address systemic TFW issues
An independent agency is needed to coordinate temporary and migrant labour policy, says a Senate committee report released yesterday.
Letters: Would decisions be different if they were the ones expected to make sacrifices?
Back in January 2021, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) was claiming they had deep roots in agriculture because one of their summer students had grown up on a farm. Their most recent campaign proclaims they support agriculture because an employee was able to move back home to the family farm after being hired by […] Read more
Agriculture industry wary of federal immigration plan
Feds vow to reduce ‘temporary immigration,’ but group says temporary workers not the same as international students
The 2024 federal budget’s promise to reduce “temporary immigration” could reduce the number of temporary foreign workers available to Canadian agriculture and agricultural businesses. The document states the government “will reduce the share of temporary residents in Canada to five per cent of the total population over the next three years,” which it estimates will […] Read more
Letters: South Bruce residents should be concerned about deep repository nuclear waste project
Are farmers, farmland, and small communities being “targeted” by elected officials in municipal/regional councils, provincial and federal government and by big organizations? Is it because this only disrupts the lives and livelihoods of a very few people, so that won’t be a big issue? Really? The lives and livelihoods of a few people, often generational […] Read more
Investments aim to grow Ontario agriculture and food exports
The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing over $7 million in approved projects through the Grow Ontario Market Initiative. The initiative helps Ontario agriculture and food businesses to increase their sales in domestic and foreign markets. The five-year, $12 million initiative was launched last year through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) and […] Read more
No hearing schedule yet to address Trespass Act changes
Agriculture sector hopeful act won’t be weakened by clarification on regulations
Although the Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act was upheld after a recent constitutional challenge, legal skirmishes to clarify some regulation subsection language have yet to begin. Animal activists challenged the act’s constitutionality in Ontario’s Superior Court, but Judge Markus Koehnen’s April 2 decision upheld it. However, he called into question specific subsection […] Read more
‘College on the Hill’ celebrates 150 years
Guelph location for Ontario Agricultural College came only after earlier plans for Toronto, Mimico
The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) is celebrating 150 years of history, having first opened its doors in May 1874. Organizers of upcoming events celebrating the 150th anniversary put their promotion into high gear at the end of April, most notably through a YouTube video featuring a well-known alumnus who has been involved with the University […] Read more
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