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Retired soil conservationist Glen Shaw has been hired as the new executive director of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada. Shaw, who hails from Moose Jaw, Sask., assumed the new post earlier this month for the organization, which is based 140 km east of Moose Jaw at Indian Head, Sask. “Glen served on our board […] Read more

Farm sector equity in Canada increased 8.9 per cent in 2007 to $252.3 billion, as assets rose more rapidly than liabilities. All provinces recorded an increase in equity in 2007, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. Farm assets rose to $302.2 billion in 2007, an 8.0 per cent increase over 2006, the federal statistics agency said. The […] Read more

(Resource News International) — The Canadian government on Tuesday will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with India regarding agricultural trade issues, Canada’s agriculture minister Gerry Ritz said in a teleconference from New Dehli on Monday. Ritz is visiting India with industry representatives from Pulse Canada and Canada Pork International as part of a trade […] Read more

Prices farmers received for their commodities in October 2008 were up 0.3 per cent from September 2008, as the increase in the crops index offset the decrease in the livestock and animal products index, both compiled each month by Statistics Canada for its farm product price index (FPPI). The largest month-over-month decrease was for cattle […] Read more

The Canadian 4-H Council has put up a new program which it expects to help fund new clubs in both urban and rural areas across Canada, and to help expand existing clubs. The RBC 4-H Rural-Urban Youth Outreach Program, announced Wednesday, is to be available to “anyone who would like to join 4-H” and provides […] Read more

Rural areas of the U.S. boast much higher rates and severities of injuries needing hospitalization in most categories, compared to that country’s cities, according to a West Virginia University study. WVU’s Injury Control Research Center on Monday announced the results of its findings in the January 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, […] Read more

A respected Malaysian food and beverage company is proudly promoting the fact that it uses soybeans from Canada.   Yeo Hiap Seng, a century-old Malaysian company world renowned for its nutritious soy milk drinks, is now displaying the Canada Brand logo – a stylized red maple leaf – on its product labels. This is the […] Read more

Maple Leaf Foods today announced that, subject to court approvals in Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario, it has reached a settlement agreement with the principal counsel groups who launched class actions following a listeriosis outbreak that was linked to products made at the company’s Toronto facility. “Our goal throughout this legal process has been to negotiate […] Read more

The Manitoba provincial and federal governments are partnering in a program to promote aquaculture in the laregly landlocked heart of Canada.

Some of Alberta’s largest users of waters – including irrigators — are taking action to develop and implement water conservation, efficiency and productivity plans as part of the province’s renewed Water for Life strategy. The Alberta Water Council released a report today outlining 21 recommendations for water conservation, efficiency and productivity sector planning to guide […] Read more