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Prep-Agriculture-Report
(Canadian Press Broadcast Wire (Canada) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) (Cargill)
Cargill Limited has announced it is closing its crop input facility in Langbank, Saskatchewan.
The company says it will cease production effective February 15th, 2012.
It says the facility is old and no longer serves to most effectively meet the needs of the company and its customers.
Cargill will continue to work with customers through its neighbouring facilities, such as Balcarres and Yorkton, Saskatchewan, and Elva and Oakner, Manitoba, as well as utilizing alternate direct-to-farm service solutions. (The Canadian Press)
(Food-Freedom)
Canadians have now earned enough income to cover the cost of their groceries for the entire year.
That's according to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
As in the previous three years, the group says Food Freedom Day 2012 fell on February 12th.
The federation encourages Canadians to understand how food makes it from the farm to their tables, and to make choices at the grocery store that support the Canadian agriculture and agri-food industry. (The Canadian Press)
(Lamb)
Alberta lamb producers are seeing a growing demand for their product.
Margaret Cook, executive director of the Alberta Lamb Producers, says Alberta is the only province in Canada that has seen a significant increase in flock size -- two-point-two per cent in one year, for a total flock of 183-thousand animals.
Their numbers are up, which can be partly attributed to producers embracing technology that helps improve the management of their flock.
Over the past several years Alberta producers have been introducing radio frequency identification technologies, or R-F-I-D tags and programs, to their operations as part of the traceability initiative in the industry. (The Canadian Press)
(Stanley-Park-Goats)
Dozens of animals that delighted children at a now-closed petting zoo operated by the City of Vancouver may have been sold for meat despite stringent requirements to treat them humanely.
Vancouver Park Board chairwoman Constance Barnes says the city's lawyer has been told to take aggressive action against a Fraser Valley farmer if it is proved he violated an adoption agreement signed with the park board.
The agreement required the farmer to allow the goats and sheep from the Stanley Park petting zoo to live out their natural lives.
Barnes says there is concern that most of the 17 goats and four sheep sent to the Langley farm have been sold to a slaughterhouse. (CKNW)
(Agriculture Digest by Mary Jo Laforest)
(The Canadian Press)
(c) 2012 The Canadian Press
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