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Robert Henderson, second from left, has been shuffled from health and wellness to agriculture and fisheries in P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan’s new cabinet. (PrinceEdwardIsland.ca)

P.E.I. names new agriculture minister

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 10, 2018

Prince Edward Island’s minister of agriculture and fisheries has quit the post after announcing his decision not to seek re-election. Alan McIsaac, the MLA for Vernon River-Stratford since 2007 and the province’s ag minister since 2015, announced Wednesday he won’t run in the next provincial election, scheduled for October next year. “Given this, I feel […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Sobeys locks in Atlantic Beef for P.E.I. stores

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 29, 2016

Prince Edward Island’s long-beleaguered packing plant, Atlantic Beef Products, has now ramped up its slaughter and processing capacity to meet a new commitment from grocery chain Sobeys. The Nova Scotia-based grocery chain on Tuesday announced ABP’s Island View Farms is now the “primary” brand for beef sold at the five Sobeys, five Co-op and three […] Read more

Atlantic salmon is one of the major species grown in aquaculture. (Troutlodge, Inc. photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Reuters

Canada says GMO salmon safe for consumption

By GFM Network News May 19, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada approved a type of genetically modified salmon for sale, health officials said on Thursday, the first such animal to be cleared as safe for consumption in the country. The salmon was approved in the U.S. to be farmed for human consumption last year but has since been a source of […] Read more

(Government of Prince Edward Island via Flickr)

Livestock

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 4, 2016

Relying until now on the services of the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island’s government has named a new in-house provincial veterinarian. The province on Tuesday named Dr. Carolyn Sanford to fill the post, in which she’ll oversee policy and regulatory issues related to animal health and welfare, including livestock and poultry as well as […] Read more

Alan McIsaac, shown here last month visiting Charlottetown’s St. Jean Elementary School in his role as minister of education and early childhood development, now leads a reorganized ministry of agriculture and fisheries. (Brian Simpson photo courtesy Government of P.E.I.)

Crops

P.E.I. farms and fisheries ministries merge

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 20, 2015

A reorganization of Prince Edward Island’s government departments will see agriculture split from forestry and instead paired with fisheries. Having returned to office in the May 4 election, Premier Wade MacLauchlan on Wednesday announced his new cabinet, appointing former education and transportation minister Alan McIsaac as minister of agriculture and fisheries. As the agriculture and […] Read more

P.E.I.’s Province House. (Assembly.pe.ca)

Crops

P.E.I. Liberals in need of ag minister after win

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 5, 2015

Wade MacLauchlan’s Liberals scored another majority in the Prince Edward Island legislature in Monday’s election, but will need to find a new agriculture minister. George Webster — who’d held the post from 2009 until Monday, stepping down temporarily in 2009 to recover from a mild heart attack — opted not to run again in his riding […] Read more

Livestock

Veterinarian and P.E.I. ag minister Bud Ings, 89

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 27, 2015

Memorial services were held Friday in Montague, P.E.I. for Dr. Bud Ings, a “pioneer” of veterinary medicine who served as the province’s agriculture minister in the 1970s and later supported the development of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC). Ings, who died last Friday at Montague’s Kings County Memorial Hospital at age 89, “worked tirelessly to […] Read more

P.E.I. Transportation Minister Alan McIsaac and John Jamieson of the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture on Thursday announced a new one-time registration option for farm trucks’ plates. (Government of P.E.I. photo by Brian Simpson)

Crops, Machinery

P.E.I. to offer one-time farm truck registration fee

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 19, 2015

Prince Edward Island’s farmers, starting next month, will be able pay a one-time fee to register their farm trucks for as long as they own them. The province until now has charged a cut-rate annual registration fee of $10 on trucks weighing at least one ton (10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or more), if the trucks […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Potatoes

New conditions placed on P.E.I. potato exports to U.S.

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 29, 2015

Potato wart’s appearance in another Prince Edward Island potato field in August has led to a new round of rules for the province’s potato exports to the U.S. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Monday announced new requirements effective “immediately” for such exports, citing the detection of potato wart in 23 fields in the […] Read more

Crops, Potatoes

Potato partnership brings prosperity

Atlantic Region: Outstanding young farmers work in  partnership to grow potatoes on Prince Edward Island

By Shirley Byers November 25, 2014

Andrew and Heidi Law-less, the 2014 Outstanding Young Farmer nominees representing the Atlantic Canada region, are both from a P.E.I. farming background. Heidi grew up on a mixed farm (purebred Angus cattle, potatoes and grain). Andrew is the third generation on the Lawless potato farm a stone’s throw from the little town of Kinkora where […] Read more

GFM Network News

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

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