Category Archives: Agriculture
Nova Scotia to cover planned school milk increase set for September
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is covering a scheduled price increase for milk in public schools this September to help families with the rising cost of food. The province says its subsidy will keep the standard 250-millilitre carton of milk offered through
Ranchers’ group pushes back against Health Canada’s ‘vilification’ of beef
CALGARY — A group representing Canadian ranchers says their industry has been unfairly singled out by proposed new regulations that would require packaged ground beef to be sold with a health warning label. The Canadian Cattlemen's Association is cryin...
Russia raiding Ukraine wheat stores, exporting it with false papers: Ukraine minister
OTTAWA — Ukraine's agriculture minister has told Ottawa that Russia is raiding its grain stores and selling Ukrainian wheat covertly on the international market. Mykola Solskyi told the House of Commons agriculture committee that 500,000 to 600,000 to...
Cheese not on the table in Canada-U.K. trade talks as Britain seeks market access
OTTAWA — The British foreign secretary has often been mocked for her preoccupation with cheese. It started eight years ago when Liz Truss expressed outrage in a speech to her party’s annual conference. “We import two thirds of our cheese,” she
Flood-stricken B.C. farmers given more time to apply for disaster assistance
VICTORIA — British Columbia has extended the deadline to apply for recovery help for farmers hit by last fall's devastating floods. A statement from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food says farmers whose lands were damaged during torrential rains in N...
Infant formula crisis another symptom of North American ‘managed trade,’ experts say
WASHINGTON — Another cargo jet laden with European infant formula will arrive Wednesday in the United States as the White House scrambles to ease a debilitating shortage — a response some fear could lead to even emptier shelves in Canada
Community to meet to discuss proposed feedlot near fragile Alberta recreational lake
Cottage owners and farmers who say a proposed feedlot threatens the water quality of a popular lake are to gather this weekend to discuss how they can keep making their case to the regulatory body that will rule on the
Russian troops planted mines in Ukraine’s fields to ruin harvest: Sajjan
OTTAWA — Russian troops have planted mines in Ukrainian fields to prevent farmers from cultivating their crops, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan has been told. Speaking after a meeting of G7 development ministers in Berlin, Sajjan said...
Putin guilty of ‘depravity’ for denying hungry Africans grain from Ukraine: Goodale
OTTAWA — Ralph Goodale, Canada's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, has accused Vladimir Putin of "unconscionable depravity" for denying hungry people in African countries and other developing nations access to grain from Ukraine. In remarks on ...
Smelly spill in ditch has B.C. farming community concerned about fumes, livestock
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. — The Peace Valley Regional District says a strong odour from a ditch in the northeastern B.C. farming community of Rolla was due to the spill of a hydrocarbon from an unknown source. The district says in a