Agriculture News Archives

Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation advises that preparations for potential spring flooding are underway across the province.

Manitoba Pork Council is encouraging its members to to become more involved in social media.

Keystone Agricultural Producers president Doug Chorney says there is not much positive news in the budget for primary producers and rural Manitobans.

The Manager of PigTrace Canada reports the system that will accommodate the reporting of swine movements is now operational.

The Minnesota Pork Producers Association is calling on the U.S. government to accept the World Trade Organization’s ruling on Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling and move to restore normal trading relations.

The U.S. based National Pork Producers Council is calling on the U.S. government to postpone implementation of proposed changes to U.S. Mandatory COOL until the World Trade Organization has fully addressed the issue.

This past week, Manitoba Pork Council announced the recipients of its 2013 Pork Industry Awards.

The executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom suggests the farm community needs to take direct action to make the public aware of the true agendas of animal activist groups.

The executive manager of Winter Cereals Canada says the abundant snow cover and the late spring melt will protect this year’s winter cereal crops from the freeze thaw cycles that can cause substantial damage.

Canada’s agriculture minister says Ottawa will consider all options should the U.S. fail to bring U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling into compliance with its international trading obligations by May 23.