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Well, it’s calvin’ season across the broad expanse of Bovamerica. Some, below the Little Ear Parallel began a few weeks ago and others, north of Calgary are still waiting for their pipes to thaw. I’ve always enjoyed calving season. It’s the equivalent of riding a combine across a sea of ripe wheat to a farmer, […] Read more

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is hopeful the new federal export market-access secretariat and other initiatives will significantly increase trade over the next few years. CCA President Brad Wildeman says, creating the new market-access secretariat to work full-time on aggressively and strategically pursuing international markets could add $100 per head to the value of a […] Read more

A Canadian pork industry innovator was recognized for his efforts to improve water conservation and reduce emissions from hog farms at the 2009 Banff Pork Seminar, The F. X. Aherne Prize for Innovative Pork Production was presented to Ross Thurston of LWR Technologies, Inc. in Calgary, Alberta for his Swinewater livestock manure treatment system. The […] Read more

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The public and government could let farming die so that the commenter will feel better about the perceptual use of his tax dollars, but the realities of letting agriculture die like the U. S. government let Lehman Brothers die would have far worse ramifications across North America and the world. A reader left a comment […] Read more