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A chicken salad featuring Upside Foods’ cell-cultivated meat. (UpsideFoods.com)
Livestock, Reuters

Lab-grown meat can be kosher and halal, experts say

Opinions seen as guidance for future products

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Reuters — Lab-grown meat can be labeled kosher and halal as long as its cells are derived in methods compliant with religious standards, according to two panels of experts commissioned by the nascent industry. The opinions are a win for cell-cultivated meat companies, executives said, because it means observant followers of Judaism and Islam could […] Read more
File photo of Diefenbaker Lake in southern Saskatchewan. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images)
General

Saskatchewan ag minister to oversee water agency

Marit gets additional duties in cabinet shuffle

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Saskatchewan’s minister of agriculture will take on added responsibility for the provincial Water Security Agency following a cabinet mini-shuffle. Premier Scott Moe on Tuesday named David Marit, MLA for the southwestern riding of Wood River since 2016 an minister for agriculture and Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. since 2018, as minister responsible for the WSA. In […] Read more
Saskatchewan front-loads AgriRecovery funding
Livestock, Weather

Saskatchewan front-loads AgriRecovery funding

Joint federal-provincial program development still underway

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The Saskatchewan government says it will put up to $70 million toward “immediate measures” to support livestock producers, ahead of an expected federal-provincial AgriRecovery program for that purpose. Application forms are expected to be available via Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. (SCIC) “in the coming days” for funding “to help offset extraordinary costs of feeding livestock […] Read more
Federal, provincial and territorial ministers of agriculture at their annual conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick in July 2023. Photo: AAFC
Crops

Federal and provincial ag ministers meet in Fredericton

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Environmental issues remain a hot topic for provincial agriculture ministers. That and sustainable agriculture dominated discussions during the recent federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) agriculture ministers meeting in Fredericton, N.B. The annual conference was held from July 19-21. The focus on sustainable agriculture tracks, as this is the first time the ministers have met since […] Read more
Forecast probability of temperatures above, below and/or near normal for the period from July through September 2023, based on three equiprobable categories from 1991-2020 climatology. (Weather.gc.ca)
Crops, Weather

Dry, hot Canadian summer expected

Normal precip expected for Ontario, Quebec

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MarketsFarm — Warmer-than-normal temperatures are expected across all of Canada for the next three months, with average precipitation in most of the agricultural areas of the Prairies. That’s according to the latest long-range seasonal forecast from Environment Canada, released Friday. The government department calls for a 50-70 per cent chance of above-normal temperatures from July […] Read more
Turkeys. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Canada books first month in 19 without bird flu outbreak

Eight commercial poultry farms remain active sites

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June 2023 appears set to be Canada’s first month without a new highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in poultry or other domesticated birds since the disease returned to this country in late 2021. Canada has booked 322 outbreaks in domestic birds in the past 19 months, of which 31 were detected so far in 2023. […] Read more
File photo of chicks on a genetic map of a chicken. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Scientists isolate human gene able to fend off most bird flu viruses

Finding may show which bird flu strains have human pandemic potential

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London | Reuters — U.K. researchers have homed in on a human gene implicated in thwarting most bird flu viruses from infecting people. Bird flu chiefly spreads among wild birds such as ducks and gulls and can also infect farmed birds and domestic poultry such as chickens, turkeys and quails. Although the viruses largely affect […] Read more
File photo of storm clouds over northeastern Alberta. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)
General, Weather

Prairie Forecast: Alberta low looks to dominate

Forecast issued June 14, covering June 14-21

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So far, the weather models have been doing a good job with the medium-range forecasts, only falling off late in the forecast period. Of course, in the summer, short-range forecasts can be difficult, especially when it comes to just when and where thunderstorms will develop. I always find it interesting that a forecast could be […] Read more
A climate change activist plays a violin in New York City’s Times Square as Manhattan is shrouded in haze and smoke which drifted south from wildfires in Canada, on June 7, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Maye-E Wong)
General, Reuters, Weather

International help rolls in to fight unyielding Canadian wildfires

Almost 80 of Quebec's fires currently out of control

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Ottawa | Reuters — Allies around the world are promising to boost support for Canada’s fight against hundreds of blazes amid the country’s worst-ever start to wildfire season, which is fueling concerns about the worsening consequences of climate change. Forest fires continued to burn across Canada on Thursday, forcing thousands of people from their homes […] Read more

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