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Source: AtlanticFarmer.com
An amended Health of Animals Regulation to take July 1 will require pig farmers and other pig industry custodians to keep records and report all movements of pigs, from birth or import to slaughter or export. The regulations affect all domestic pigs that are farmed for food production, and will be extended to include farmed Wild boar July 1, 1915.
Source: FCC
A book-value buy-out of Canadian dairy quota could cost as much as $4.7 billion, but would eventually grow the sector and open new opportunities for exports, says a new report.
The Conference Board of Canada's Reforming Dairy Supply Management: The Case for Growth notes global dairy export volumes have increased by more than seven per cent per year over the last three years. (read more)
Source: The Chronicle Herald
When it comes to their own money, most regional councillors say they choose to buy local, but when it comes to Halifax’s municipal coffers, they won’t always do the same. Regional council has approved a motion that would keep local firms from getting an edge on the competition on tenders put out by city hall. Councillors had asked staff to look at the practicality of such a policy last year, and a report this week recommended against it.(read more)
Source: N.S Dept of Energy
Government is adjusting the Community Feed-in Tariff (COMFIT) program after releasing a review on March 6. Energy Minister Andrew Younger said that the department has received a lot of feedback on the program and are making changes as a result. As of January, 89 COMFIT projects had been approved, with a total capacity of 200 megawatts. When launched in 2011, the program's target was 100 megawatts. It is not expected that all approved projects will go into production. (read more)
Source: ACORN
Join us at the Knowlesville Art & Nature Centre for a seed saving celebration on Saturday March 15, 2014! This is a great opportunity to start the growing season right with a seed share and swap, garden expo, and home cooked breakfast and lunch! (read more)
Source: Equipment Journal
This is not your usual heavy equipment promotional video. It is a short (seven minutes) story of Halle who must collect certain tools to protect herself from the onslaught of zombies. (read more)
Source: The Chronicle Herald
In 2011, Paper Excellence came to Nova Scotia believing in the future of northern bleached softwood kraft and the Nova Scotia forest industry. Northern Pulp produces northern bleached softwood kraft. The world market for NBSK increases two percent per year – it is a product with a future. (Read More)
Source: BBC
Emergency relief is on its way to drought-hit farmers in eastern Australia as many are forced to sell or slaughter their cattle. However the drought is not only inflicting a financial toll – there’s a mounting psychological cost on communities where once fertile land has turned to dust. (Read More)
Source: NPR
Americans who ate a diet rich in animal protein during middle age were significantly more likely to die from cancer and other causes, compared with people who reported going easy on foods such as red meat and cheese, fresh research suggests. (Read More)
Source: The Globe and Mail
America’s oil and natural gas revolution is running into new public opposition to hydraulic fracturing that could slow development unless the industry gets a better handle on the environmental challenges. The battle is currently focused on Colorado, where activists are attempting to have a referendum this fall that would allow local municipalities to ban hydraulic fracturing – or fracking, as it is known. (Read more)
Source: BetterFarming.com
Canada’s supply management system is limiting its most efficient farmers’ ability to grow because they’re forced to focus on the small, slow-growing Canadian market rather than export markets, says the Conference Board of Canada. (read more)
Source: NPR
Ah, cows. They’re big, lumbering, earthbound beasts, right? But sometimes, Bessie and pals just have to get airborne. A gif of dairy cows “jumping for joy” from a video has been making the rounds on the Internet. We spotted it last week when food journalist Michael Pollan tweeted it out. (read more)
Source: Maynards
Two-day auction, March 19 and 20, Brooklyn, N.S. at 10am ADT each day. Featuring: Modern TMP Plant w. (6) Sunds Defibrator Refiners/ (2) Paper Machines/Modern Chip Handling Equip. including 80t Hyd. Truck Dump, Chip Stacker and Reclaim/ Effluent Treatment/ Paper Winding and Packaging Equip./ Late Model Electrical Transformers, MCC's,DC Drives, Breakers and Main Panels/ Instrumentation, Valves and controls/ Large Machine and Fab Shops inc. Roll Grinders/ Mobile Equip. including Forklifts, Dump trucks, Pickups/ 10 Million Dollar Plus Stores Inventory including Motors Bearings, Valves, Hydraulics etc./ Large Qty of Mill Support Equipment including Gen Sets. (read more)
Source: NSCP
The Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture is changing its approach to delivering federal-provincial programs under Growing Forward 2. Information sessions will be held around the province in late March. (read more)
Source: NPR
It's easy to think of “organic” and “non-GMO” as the best buddies of food. They sit comfortably beside each other in the same grocery stores – most prominently, in Whole Foods Market. Culturally, they also seem to occupy the same space. Both reject aspects of mainstream industrial agriculture. (read more)
Source: Time.com
Talk about an occupational hazard: 40 percent of Australian workers may be exposed to chemicals that boost their risk of developing cancer, according to a team of Aussie researchers. Solar radiation, tobacco smoke, and diesel engine exhaust topped the list of the most common disease-causing culprits. (read more)
Source: BBC
More than 600 scientists gathered in the Netherlands for a global food security conference, described as the first of its kind. Organizers said science could help end uncertainty surrounding efforts to meet the food needs of future generations. (read more)
Source: Vocativ.com
Earlier this week, a humble Virginia dairy farmer entered his barn to discover a harrowing scene: someone had swiped a giant load of bull semen from his inventory, which he uses to artificially inseminate his cows. In total, 10 containers of the precious seed were gone, never to find their way into his prize-winning Holsteins. Fortunately for the farmer, the thieves got away with only $250 of bovine booty, a relatively modest loss. Over the last few years, a rash of jizz heists across the country has cost some dairymen hundreds of thousands of dollars. (read more)
Source: NPR
The other morning, I found myself staring at something strange and unfamiliar: empty grocery shelves with the word “eggs” above them. The store, a Whole Foods Market in Washington, D.C., blamed, in another sign, the dearth on “increased demand for organic eggs.” (read more)
Source: The Chronicle Herald
He’s riding the rails in order to save them. Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer arrived in Halifax recently to highlight the decline of the country’s rail system. “I’m fearful that we’re about to lose most of Via Rail, end of story,” Hyer said in an interview after flying in from his home riding. (read more)
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