July 22, 2015
/P.E.I. FIRMS TEAM UP TO HARVEST NATURAL EXTRACTS …ENERGY AND MINES MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE CONCLUDES … TENSION BUILDS BETWEEN CANADA, U.S. OVER TPP DEAL … AVCC Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award … NB POWER’S HERBICIDE “ESSENTIALLY NON-TOXIC” TO HUMANS, WILDLIFE …OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST...
P.E.I. FIRMS TEAM UP TO HARVEST NATURAL EXTRACTS
Source: The Chronicle Herald
Bolstered by a local partnership agreement, Charlottetown-based Origins Xtractions Ltd. is planning to raise money to finance a new commercial facility in the P.E.I. capital for extracting compounds from natural materials. The three-year-old company specializes in a process called supercritical extraction, which uses pressurized carbon dioxide in a closed system to draw highvalue natural extracts from agricultural and marine resources. It is mainly using the process to offer services to clients, but it is working toward having its own commercial production facility. It recently signed a deal with another P.E.I. biotech research contractor, BioFoodTech, to do joint analysis for clients. (read more)
ENERGY AND MINES MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE CONCLUDES
Source: N.S. Depts of Energy and Natural Resources
Energy and mines ministers from across the country concluded discussions on the responsible growth of Canada’s natural resources and energy sectors at their annual meeting today, July 21, in Halifax. “Working together, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments can achieve further economic success and a lower carbon future from the responsible development of our energy sectors,” said Energy Minister Michel Samson. (read more)
TENSION BUILDS BETWEEN CANADA, U.S. OVER TPP DEAL
Source: The Globe and Mail
The U.S. government is frustrated with Canada over Pacific Rim trade talks because it believes Ottawa promised greater foreign access to its dairy and poultry markets as a condition of joining – and yet has offered nothing as discussions enter the final stretch, sources say. This friction between Canada and the U.S. is exposing a fundamental disagreement over precisely what the Canadian government signed up for when it joined Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in the fall of 2012. (read more)
AVCC Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award
Source: NSFA
To recognize and support the agriculture and agri-food sector’s innovation in business, the Annapolis Valley Chamber of Commerce created the AVCC’s Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award. This annual award program recognizes outstanding agriculture and agri-food related innovators including producers, processors, suppliers and organizations.
executivedirector@annapolisvalleychamber.ca
NB POWER’S HERBICIDE “ESSENTIALLY NON-TOXIC” TO HUMANS, WILDLIFE
Source: CBC.ca
Dozens of rural New Brunswickers are upset about NB Power spraying herbicides on and near their properties and communities. But NB Power says the products it uses are approved by a branch of Health Canada and are “essentially non-toxic to humans and wildlife.” Areas underneath high electrical lines have been scorched brown by the use of plant-killing chemicals and it has many people in Wirral, Tracy, Hoyt, and Fredericton Junction on edge. (read more)
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
FRANCE SAYS LIVESTOCK CRISIS HAS PUT THOUSANDS OF FARMS AT RISK
http://www.thebullvine.com/news/france-says-livestock-crisis-has-put-thousands-of-farms-at-risk/
EXPORTING AGRI-FOOD PRODUCTS TO SOUTH KOREA
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/newslett.nsf/all/agnw23933
COVER CROPS GOOD ADDITION TO CROP ROTATION
https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/ag-knowledge/business-planning/cover-crops-good-addition-to-crop-rotation.html?utm_source=Subscribe+to+FCC+Email&utm_campaign=94f4f972a3-FCC_Express_July_16_2015_EN_16_03_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ecca3657d7-94f4f972a3-18202745
AG CANADA LOWERS 2015-16 CROP PRODUCTION FORECASTS
http://www.producer.com/daily/ag-canada-lowers-2015-16-crop-production-forecasts/
