Farm safety Archives - Page 32 of 51

This year, 2,000 Safety Scouts Kits will be available across Canada free of charge while supplies last.

Editor’s Column: We aren’t doing enough to stop child fatalities on the farm

By Kari Belanger June 24, 2022

Last month, I was happy to see BASF’s announcement of the second year of its Safety Scouts program. The purpose of the program is to support farm safety for children and their families by inviting kids to act as safety ambassadors on their family farms. This year, 2,000 Safety Scouts Kits will be available for […] Read more

General, Weather

Saskatchewan shores up disaster program for bigger farms

Program extends PDAP aid to higher-revenue farm businesses

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 22, 2022

Saskatchewan farmers whose operations took damage from storms in April, but whose gross revenues overtopped the maximum for disaster assistance, will now be able to get in on that program. The province on June 16 announced “supplemental relief” via the Provincial Disaster Assistance Program to help farmers who didn’t qualify under PDAP’s usual eligibility rules. […] Read more

A mobile biomass densification system, developed at PAMI in Portage la Prairie and shown here in a 2012 video, was used to process biomass such as straw into solid blocks, for ease of transport or for use in biomass burners. (BioScience Association Manitoba video screengrab via YouTube)

Crops, Machinery

PAMI to close Portage la Prairie location

Revenue challenges in recent years blamed for Manitoba site's closure

By GFM Network News June 20, 2022

The product development, testing and design firm Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), will be closing its Portage la Prairie, Man. location at the end of July. Citing revenue challenges in recent years as the reason for downsizing, the institute informed staff and clients of the closure of its River Road facility in Portage, prior to […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. EPA ordered to reassess glyphosate impact on health, environment

Decision doesn't prohibit Roundup's use

By GFM Network News June 18, 2022

Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was ordered by a federal appeals court on Friday to take a fresh look at whether glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup herbicide, poses unreasonable risks to humans and the environment. In a 3-0 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with several environmental, farmworker […] Read more

File photo of cattle in a Kansas feedlot. (BeyondImages/E+/Getty Images)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Heat, humidity kill at least 2,000 Kansas cattle, state says

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News June 15, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Extreme heat and humidity killed thousands of cattle in Kansas in recent days, the state said, and sizzling temperatures continue to threaten livestock. The deaths add pain to the U.S. cattle industry as producers have reduced herds due to drought and grappled with feed costs that climbed as Russia’s invasion of […] Read more

File photo of a garbage dump at Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. (Rlesyk/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Canada launches offset credits to help tackle emissions

Landfill gas protocols now launched; ag-related protocols soon to follow

By GFM Network News June 9, 2022

Reuters — Canada on Wednesday launched a credit system for greenhouse gas offsets, a major part of its plan to cut carbon emissions, starting with a set of rules stipulating how projects can generate tradeable credits by capturing gas from landfills. The government said protocols for four other sectors including agriculture and forest management are […] Read more

File photo of a trumpeter swan in springtime on Marsh Lake, southeast of Whitehorse. (Scalia Media/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Northern egg harvesters cautioned over avian flu

High-path H5N1 found in wild birds in Yukon

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 8, 2022

Residents of Canada’s northern territories who harvest migratory wild birds and their eggs this spring are urged to take precautions as highly pathogenic avian influenza makes its way northward. The Yukon government’s animal health unit on May 27 reported confirmed cases of high-path H5N1 avian flu in two wild waterfowl carcasses. “Spring migration is ongoing […] Read more

General, Weather

Environment Canada sees cool summer for Manitoba

By GFM Network News June 1, 2022

MarketsFarm — Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan could be in for a cooler-than-normal summer, according to the latest long-range outlook from Environment Canada. The latest seasonal forecast from the government agency, released Tuesday, calls for a 40 to 80 per cent chance of below normal temperatures from June through August across all of the agricultural regions […] Read more

FarmLife, Other, Practical Tips

Unexpected trips and falls are major causes of injury

To help prevent this try these exercises to build awareness of the feet

By Kathlyn Hossack May 31, 2022

Unexpected trips, stumbles and falls are major causes of injury risk for the vast majority of people, and the risk tends to go up as we age. The passage of time does often come with a regression of things like balance, body awareness and control. Degeneration of joint structures, soft tissue and neurological ability physically […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

Cases reported in two provinces, three states

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 30, 2022

Washington | Reuters –– Food safety regulators in both Canada and the U.S. are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the […] Read more

Trump tariffs could fund bailout for US farmers, agriculture secretary tells Financial Times

Top global meatpacker JBS prepares for drop in cattle for slaughter in 2026

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

GFM Network News