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Marc Bercier with his ALUS award at his farm.

Award-winner values relationships in land preservation

La Ferme Agribec recognized by ALUS Canada for work creating natural areas on farms

By Stew Slater April 16, 2021

Improving the environment or building farming’s reputation among consumers might be possible incentives for getting involved with farmland conservation efforts, but for St-Isidore’s Marc Bercier it’s relationships. Bercier was the winner of this year’s $10,000 Dave Reid Award from Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) Canada. He’s been involved in ALUS projects for eight years. Why […] Read more

News

Tighter regulations take effect for B.C. farmland reserve

Local governments' expanded role to take effect this fall

By GFM Staff March 13, 2020

New regulations governing how — or if — changes can be made to land’s status within British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) are now in force, but local governments get more prep time for their expanded role. The province on Thursday announced amendments to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) Act — having received royal assent […] Read more

A CN freight train remains halted as train tracks are blocked two km away at Tyendinaga, Ont., east of Belleville, on Feb. 14, 2020.

News

Ontario farm groups write to PM over rail protests

The movement of many commodities is slowed or halted due to rail service shutdown

By Farmtario Staff February 18, 2020

Ontario soybean container shipments have ground to a halt, ethanol plants have stopped receiving corn as ethanol movement is hindered and the vast amount of pork that is exported has stopped moving because of the current halt in eastern Canadian rail service. Ontario farm organizations have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requesting help to […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

By Ashley Robinson May 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume that commercial activity,” said Louis […] Read more

New step in Port of Churchill’s potential sale

By GFM Network News December 28, 2016

Commodity News Service Canada – Ownership of the Hudson Bay rail line and shuttered Port of Churchill may change soon, as the port’s current owners and a collection of northern First Nations have inked a formal agreement, according to a company press release. Omnitrax, the rail company that currently owns the northern Manitoban port, has […] Read more

Crops

‘Veil of uncertainty’ shrouds Churchill’s shipping season

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 16, 2016

CNS Canada — Manitoba’s Port of Churchill is facing an uncertain grain shipping season, as ownership of the Hudson Bay facility is still up in the air, months after owner OmniTrax announced plans to sell the port and the railway that serves it. Denver-based OmniTrax announced in late 2015 it had accepted a letter of […] Read more

Delegates at the Indigenous Agriculture Summit got musical accompaniment to their lunch Wednesday at Regina’s Ramada Plaza. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Guenther: Indigenous ag summit cultivates global ambition

By Lisa Guenther November 27, 2014

Elmer Eashappie is an idea man. And on his mind today is an agricultural summit connecting First Nations groups worldwide to network and learn, all under the umbrella of Canadian Western Agribition. And that idea is closer to reality than one may think. Eashappie, an Agribition board member, is chairman of the Indigenous Agriculture Summit, […] Read more

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