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Listen: Rail upgrades a priority for Port of Churchill Group
The community group responsible for the Port of Churchill has a long list of improvements they would like to take on.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to the new CEO Sheldon Affleck.Alice McFarlane...
Apr 09, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Friday April 9, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - Dairy farmers have responded to the federal government's compensation package.Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said roughly 9,600 dairy farmers registered for th...
Apr 09, 2021
200 producers to benefit from new sugar beet deal in Taber
TABER, AB. -- Sugar Beet refineries used to be spread across Canada, but have since dissolved, with the last remaining one right here in Southern Alberta. Sugar Beet farmers, around Lethbridge and Tab...
Apr 08, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Thursday April 8, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - Farmers will have another way to access support from Saskatchewan Agriculture specialists.Starting this spring, service will be available through AGvisorPRO.Saskatchewan Agriculture m...
Apr 08, 2021
Residents reminded to stay clear of water bodies during ice break up
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - Residents in the Battlefords area are being asked to avoid coming too close to water bodies during ice break up.North Battleford fire chief Lindsay Holm recently assessed the...
Apr 08, 2021
Government of Canada supports Alberta agri-food sector with investment in BioNeutra
EDMONTON, AB. -- It's long been known that the agriculture industry produces not only crops but ingenuity in developing innovative technologies and processes that help expand and diversify agricultura...
Apr 07, 2021
B.C. wineries prepare for Wine Month, tourism season
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - It's the second straight year that wineries in Kamloops and all of B.C. will operate amidst the coronavirus pandemic.April is Wine Month in B.C., and one Kamloops winery is using the ...
Apr 07, 2021
Canadian company receives patent on soil mapping technology
MELFORT, Sask. - Croptimistic Technology Inc. has been awarded a U.S. Patent for their crop production technology. The soil, water and topography mapping or SWAT Box as it is known, is a proprietary a...
Apr 07, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday April 7, 2021
MELFORT - The University of Alberta (U of A) has announced a five-year partnership with TELUS.A 5G "Living Lab" will contribute to a pipeline of new research and technology with commercial application...
Apr 07, 2021
Improve your fertilizer efficiency this spring
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- The principles of 4R fertilizer management will help farmers improve plant uptake of their fertilizer inputs. This will improve farm profitability and also reduce losses to the air ...
Apr 06, 2021