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Non-profit groups or charities interested in providing safety training to farmers or agribusinesses can apply online starting next week for support through Farm Credit Canada. FCC and the Canadian Agriculture Safety Association (CASA) recently launched a new FCC Ag Safety Fund, offering a total of $100,000 to provide support for safety training programs. The fund’s […] Read more

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in the Highway 401 and Fountain Street area and in the County of Oxford, Ontario, along Highway 401 near Oxford County Road 3. Movement restrictions on regulated wood materials will be placed on […] Read more

Insurance and fire investigators will now be able to use The Weather Network’s data archive to authenticate lightning strikes as a possible cause of farm damages, power outages and forest fires. Oakville, Ont.-based Pelmorex Media, which operates The Weather Network and MeteoMedia, its French-language counterpart, on Wednesday launched an archive of lightning strike data as […] Read more

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his U.S. counterpart have agreed to set up a “high-level working group” they say will advance a “science-based” approach to global ag trade. Such a group would help improve flows of ag goods between Canada and the U.S., improve “regulatory approaches” and “further strengthen the Canada-US approach to food […] Read more

A thirst among vehicle thieves for horsepower and hemis has made pickup trucks a “group to watch” in an annual list of vehicle theft losses and theft rates, as compiled by a U.S. insurers’ group. “In many cases it’s tough to pinpoint exactly why a vehicle becomes a theft target,” Kim Hazelbaker, senior vice-president of […] Read more