Seeds Canada celebrates first anniversary

Submitted by gvossler on Mon, 08/22/2022 - 09:04

Seeds Canada celebrated its first anniversary at the organization's annual meeting held in Winnipeg last month.
 
“We’ve made considerable progress in our first year,” said Seeds Canada President Ellen Sparry. “Thanks for a successful event. Strengthening Canada’s supply chain is critical for our economy, our ability to feed ourselves and our ability to feed the world."

Canadian beef industry making progress on 2020-24 National Strategy

Submitted by gvossler on Mon, 08/15/2022 - 21:13

The Canadian beef industry is making progress on the 2020-24 National Beef Strategy.

The Strategy was designed to take advantage of the opportunities facing the industry while simultaneously addressing the challenges. The first two years of the strategy have been dominated by COVID restrictions, drought, and feed shortages.

Morris farmer expects fall rye harvest to start in next week or two

Overall, farmers seem to be pleased with how the crops are progressing.

David Hamblin is with Red River Seeds near Morris.

"All things considered, I think they look quite good. We had a real late start and some big challenges with flooding of course here. Considering the mess we put it into, I think things are looking reasonably well, albeit quite late," he said. 

Hamblin was asked if they've had a lot of rain this summer.

Morris farmer expects fall rye harvest to start in next week or two

Submitted by cory.knutt on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 14:04

Overall, farmers seem to be pleased with how the crops are progressing.

David Hamblin is with Red River Seeds near Morris.

"All things considered, I think they look quite good. We had a real late start and some big challenges with flooding of course here. Considering the mess we put it into, I think things are looking reasonably well, albeit quite late," he said. 

Hamblin was asked if they've had a lot of rain this summer.

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