The Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame announced its final three inductees for 2017 at CropSphere in Saskatoon on Wednesday. Biotech champion Wilf Keller, seedgrower Donna Edwards and soil scientist Bob McKercher join grain industry champion Art Mainil (deceased), beef industry advocate Tim Oleksyn and farm innovator George Cooper (deceased), whose inductions were announced during Agribition... Read More
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FarmLink and Farm At Hand have announced the return of Grain World for 2017. The revamped conference will be held at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg November 14 and 15, 2017. The two-day conference will feature keynote addresses from journalists Andrew Coyne and Michael Landsberg along with industry experts covering outlooks on major Canadian... Read More
Chrystia Freeland is handing over the federal government's trade portfolio, with one major exception. As part of the cabinet shuffle announced on Tuesday, Freeland was named Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, but she's retaining the Canada-U.S. relations file, including trade relations. Quebec MP Francois-Philippe Champagne, formerly the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, becomes... Read More
Farmers and land owners will have two chances this year to access funding under the Grassland Stewardship Program (GSP) beginning with a January 9th to February 1 intake. The program, administered by the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA) and funded through the federal Environment and Climate Change Canada department, provides funding to implement... Read More
CropLife Canada has started looking for a new president and CEO, as Ted Menzies has stepped down due to a "serious health problem." Menzies, a long-time Alberta farmer and former Member of Parliament, has led the plant science industry organization since January 2014. The health issue was identified in late December. "Ted contributed a great... Read More
Update: This story originally stated Miller's appointment begins March 13, 2017, but according to the ag minister's office, there was an error in the order posted by the Privy Council. As noted in the minister's official announcement on January 3, Miller's appointment begins February 13, 2017. The president of the Canola Council of Canada is... Read More
The third annual Global Youth Agriculture Summit will be held from October 9 to 13, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The 2017 summit is hosted by Bayer and two Belgian young farmers associations, Groene Kring and Fédération des Jeunes Agriculteurs. Canada will send four selected candidates to the summit, two of which will be chosen through... Read More
For the first time, Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan have honoured an individual and an organization as "Champions" of food and farming. Announced earlier this month in conjunction with the Farm & Food Care Farms at the Table conference, the Champion Award was given to Dr. Leigh Rosengren, a veterinarian, epidemiologist, and beef producer from... Read More
G3 — the grain company that acquired the former Canadian Wheat Board — has unveiled plans to build the first fully new grain terminal at the Port of Vancouver since the 1960s. Located in North Vancouver, the 180,000-tonne facility will feature a rail loop track that will be capable of holding three 134-car trains (see... Read More
Syngenta and DuPont say they expect a new herbicide chemistry class to be created by 2023, after announcing the publishing of a joint patent on Monday. Collaboration between the two companies on the project started in 2015 and has resulted in a patent for "Substituted cyclic amides and their use as herbicides." "We are very... Read More