Tag Archives: Agriculture
Agriculture Roundup for Monday April 12, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. – The latest United States Department of Agriculture report released on Friday had little affect on the markets. The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates had U.S. corn e...
Alice McFarlane Apr 12, 2021
Alberta officially free of Potato Cyst Nematode
TABER, Alta. — Trade prospects have improved for Alberta potato growers, as the province has been deemed free of potato cyst nematode (PCN). PCN is a destructive pest that lives in the soil, is ...
Dori Modney with files from Alberta agriculture Apr 10, 2021
Beekeeper urges farmers to talk about their mental health
MELFORT, Sask. – A Saskatchewan beekeeper is hoping for a better year. Sheldon Hill and his wife Stella run Sweet Pure Honey. Sheldon takes care of the bees at his Porcupine Plain, Sask. heritag...
Alice McFarlane Apr 09, 2021
Listen: Rail upgrades a priority for Port of Churchill Group
The community group responsible for the Port of Churchill has a long list of improvements they would like to take on. Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to the new CEO Sheldon Affleck. Alice McFarla...
Alice McFarlane Apr 09, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Friday April 9, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - Dairy farmers have responded to the federal government’s compensation package. Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said roughly 9,600 dairy farmers registered...
Alice McFarlane Apr 09, 2021
200 producers to benefit from new sugar beet deal in Taber
TABER, AB. — Sugar Beet refineries used to be spread across Canada, but have since dissolved, with the last remaining one right here in Southern Alberta. Sugar Beet farmers, around Lethbridge an...
Sarah Jones Apr 08, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Thursday April 8, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - Farmers will have another way to access support from Saskatchewan Agriculture specialists. Starting this spring, service will be available through AGvisorPRO. Saskatchewan Agriculture...
Alice McFarlane Apr 08, 2021
Government of Canada supports Alberta agri-food sector with investment in BioNeutra
EDMONTON, AB. — It’s long been known that the agriculture industry produces not only crops but ingenuity in developing innovative technologies and processes that help expand and diversify ...
Dori Modney Apr 07, 2021
B.C. wineries prepare for Wine Month, tourism season
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - It's the second straight year that wineries in Kamloops and all of B.C. will operate amidst the coronavirus pandemic. April is Wine Month in B.C., and one Kamloops winery is using the...
Aaron Schulze Apr 07, 2021
Canadian company receives patent on soil mapping technology
MELFORT, Sask. - Croptimistic Technology Inc. has been awarded a U.S. Patent for their crop production technology. The soil, water and topography mapping or SWAT Box as it is known, is a proprietary a...
Alice McFarlane Apr 07, 2021
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