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China money, market spur Canadian blueberry deluge

By GFM Network News August 5, 2016

Richmond, B.C. | Reuters — An aging mansion sits vacant on an estate outside Vancouver, the garage overtaken by a blueberry sorter and a walk-in cooler packed with the fruit. The owner, an investor from mainland China, leases the estate to Fred Liu at such a bargain the farmer grows blueberries in its fields even […] Read more

Crops

B.C. pension funds to get piece of Glencore ag unit

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 9, 2016

The investment firm for British Columbia’s public-sector pension funds is set to buy just under 10 per cent of the agricultural arm of commodities firm Glencore. Swiss-based Glencore announced Thursday it has a “definitive” deal to sell 9.99 per cent of its “Glencore Agri” business for US$624.9 million cash to the B.C. Investment Management Corp. […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

B.C. pulls PST for farm telehandlers, skid steers

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 28, 2016

Qualifying farmers in British Columbia are now able to buy telehandlers, skid steers and polycarbonate greenhouse panels for farm use without paying the province’s seven per cent sales tax. The province on Thursday announced the additions, effective Feb. 17, to its list of goods, equipment and services for which eligible farmers are PST-exempt. Farmers wanting […] Read more

This Water Hemlock (above) looks similar to the harmless Water Parsnip, but it doesn’t take much of the leaves and only one tuber to kill a grazing animal.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Be on the lookout for water hemlock

About 1-1/2 pounds of leaves or a bite of a bulb is enough to kill a cow

By Kim Nielsen September 9, 2015

You are typically hearing from me with an Australian story but for a change I am reporting to you from our 4-Clover Ranch south east of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Since coming back in late May we have endured a very dry spring and summer. While a good 125 mm of rain has fallen since […] Read more

This is a colourful view of Jennie Van Straalen’s enormous mass-planted impatiens floral bed containing over 500 plants.

Farm Life

Singing Gardener: Ted talks about tomatoes

Plus, Butcher’s Broom, witch’s broom, and big-batch bran muffins

By Ted Meseyton September 4, 2015

Welcome to the Grainews Singing Gardener˜. Seems the subject of tomatoes is never far away, so I’ll be doing some Ted Talk in that connection. We’ve all heard of Flin Flon, Manitoba, border city to immediately adjacent Creighton, Saskatchewan. I, Ted, wrote a song called “Flin Flon’s Rock Garden” and the late Irvin Freese wrote and recorded “The […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

CFIA declares B.C. avian flu-free

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 9, 2015

With three months’ distance from the cleanup at the last of the province’s infected poultry barns, the federal government has declared British Columbia free of highly pathogenic avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday it had notified the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that B.C. is considered free of notifiable avian influenza, […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Young Peace farmer has farming in her blood

This 26-year old woman is growing her herd in B.C.

By Stephanie Grace April 28, 2015

To Brittany Enns, a 26-year old Peace Country farmer, the hard work, dedication and attention to detail that come with an agricultural lifestyle are nothing new. Farming is in her blood on both sides of her family. Moving from Carrot River, Saskatchewan to B.C.’s Peace Country in 1986, Brittany’s parents Walter and Dolores Enns started […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

B.C. resident positive for H7N9 avian flu

By GFM Network News January 26, 2015

Vancouver | Reuters –– A British Columbia resident has tested positive for the H7N9 avian flu virus in the first documented case of the infection in a human in North America, the federal government said Monday. The person had returned to Canada from China and is recovering from the illness in self-isolation, the Public Health […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Avian flu arrives on more B.C. poultry farms

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 10, 2014

Federal officials monitoring avian flu outbreaks in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley aren’t surprised to have confirmed another three, maybe four, infected properties. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in a statement Wednesday, two more farms — both close to the initial pair of farms confirmed last week with high-pathogenicity H5N2 avian flu — have […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Two Fraser Valley farms quarantined with H5 avian flu

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 2, 2014

Federal officials have quarantined a turkey farm and a broiler breeder farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley after both were confirmed with outbreaks of an H5 strain of avian influenza. The quarantines, announced Tuesday, follow death losses of “over half” of the 11,000 birds at the turkey farm near Abbotsford, and of about 1,000 of […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall sharply as Trump says he’s working to lower beef costs

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest reaches completion

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on yield uncertainty, firming cash markets

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