Montana

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Weather outlook not great for Prairie crops

MarketsFarm -- Just when crops across the Canadian Prairies need rain, the outlook to the end of July according to Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. pointed to conditions getting hotter and drier. "It does not look really good at the moment. We are going to see below normal rainfall and warmer than normal temperatures...

July 13, 2023

The Western Producer

Sugar beet plant closure worries Alta. growers

American Crystal announced earlier this year it is closing its 100-year-old Sidney, Mont., beet sugar processing facility following a reduction of about one-third of contracted acres in the last two decades to a little more than 18,000 acres.


April 20, 2023

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Ontario bans birds at events as avian flu spreads

Up against several outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu in commercial poultry flocks, Ontario is temporarily banning birds from appearing at shows and other such events. Provincial Agriculture Minister Lisa Thompson on Friday announced a ministerial order taking effect just after midnight Saturday (April 9), in which "the movement to and participation of birds in...

April 8, 2022

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Feed weekly outlook: Alberta blockade affects feed grain deliveries

MarketsFarm -- A truck blockade at a Canada-U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta. has caused some headaches for grain buyers in southern parts of the province. Since Saturday, commercial trucks and other vehicles have blocked Highway 4, a 103-km stretch which runs from the border to Lethbridge, to protest COVID-19 health measures. On the U.S....

February 2, 2022

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Alberta RCMP to start unclogging major border crossing

A major supply chain corridor connecting Alberta and the U.S. is expected to be cleared of protestors and reopened to traffic on Tuesday, Alberta RCMP have warned. Protestors in vehicles formed a blockade Saturday on Highway 4 leading to the province's only 24-hour Canada-U.S. border crossing, at Coutts, Alta., about 100 km southeast of Lethbridge....

February 1, 2022

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U.S. extends travel restrictions at Canada, Mexico borders

Washington | Reuters -- The United States on Monday extended restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico through Oct. 21 that bar nonessential travel such as tourism by foreigners despite Ottawa's decision to open its border to vaccinated Americans. Canada on Aug. 9 began allowing fully vaccinated U.S. visitors for nonessential travel. The...

September 20, 2021