Ag News

The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) will deliver live cattle chain of custody tracking for the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef's (CRSB) Certified Sustainable Beef Framework. 

After reviewing the program operation for the last two years the CRSB is confident thCt working with the CCIA will enable consistent implementation of its Chain of Custody Requirements and improve transparency of live-cattle movement across all CRSB Certified Supply chains. 

AGT Soileos held their grand opening in Rosetown on Wednesday, October 11.

Read more through the  AGT Food's official release, as the new operation is a result of the partnership between AGT Foods and and Lucent Bio. The two companies put their expertise together to manufacture the flagship product "Soileos" that works to deliver sustainable, efficient, and eco-friendly micronutrient fertilizer solutions.

The upgrading of the Hwy. 1A and 22 interchange is helping the Cochrane and District Agricultural Society (CDAS) tackle some of the serious challenges associated with their hilly location.

CDAS Justin Burwash says it has enabled them to level out some benches and create more useable space, something that's part of a preliminary site plan that set some high-level goals a few years ago,

AGT Soileos held their grand opening in Rosetown on Wednesday, October 11.

Read more through the  AGT Food's official release, as the new operation is a result of the partnership between AGT Foods and and Lucent Bio. The two companies put their expertise together to manufacture the flagship product "Soileos" that works to deliver sustainable, efficient, and eco-friendly micronutrient fertilizer solutions.

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Manitoba's Outstanding Young Farmer program.

Kristy-Layne Carr and her husband Richard run Rich Lane Farms, a dairy operation at Marchand, and were the Provincial OYF winners for 2022.

CN Rail is reporting grain movement is starting to pick up across the prairies.

CN's assistant vice-president of grain David Przednowek says rail car demand has ramped up over the last few weeks.

"We shipped almost 700,000 tons of grain and processed grain products last week , 685. So we've seen that tonnage steadily increase here over the past number of weeks. Week 6 was just under 600,000 tons and we've seen those numbers grow. So week 9 has definitely been the biggest week so far to date this crop year."

The Do More Agriculture Foundation launched its new initiative "Walk With Me" as part of World Mental Health Day on Tuesday.

"Walk With Me" is a global campaign created by U.K. farmer Chris Manley when he was struggling with depression.

Manley found that walking and journaling helped to improve his mental health, and wrote a poem called Walk with Me that outlined the feelings that people can have while feeling low.

Trade irritants are always a key concern for the agriculture sector 

The ongoing tensions between India and Canada remain a concern especially for provinces like Saskatchewan that export a large volume of pulses into India. 

AGT Foods is one of the largest suppliers of value-added pulses, staple foods and food ingredients in the world.

Murad Al Katib, President and CEO of AGT Foods says they are closely monitoring the situation.

There's a lot of discussion around the portential for the Israel - Humas conflict to escalate.

The key concern of course is the loss of human life and the humanitarian need.

Josh Linville is vice president of Fertilizer for Stone X Financial and is following the impact on the fertilizer market as Israel is the fourth largest exporter of potash in the world.

In his newsletter this morning he noted that so far, the attack does not appear to be impacting the fertilizer markets.

Agricultural societies across the province, including Cochrane, are receiving a desperately needed shot in the arm from the Alberta Government.

The Cochrane and District Agricultural Society (CDAS) is among those applauding the announcement of $2.5 million annually to help update existing infrastructure.

CDAS president Justin Burwash says they've been somewhat successful in receiving grants in the past but it's always been in competition with all Alberta nonprofits.