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MP Shields hopeful in upcoming ag season
Posted on May 24, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com Growing conditions throughout southern Alberta have been favourable early on, and Bow River MP Martin Shields is optimistic for… Read More »
Ag speaking competition in Calgary
Posted on May 24, 2017The Alberta Young Speakers for Agriculture has announced the date for its second annual public speaking competition for Albertan youth to share their passion about… Read More »
Ripple effect large for carbon tax; Shields/Hunter
Posted on May 10, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com The impact on value-added agricultural processing and other manufacturing in the area due to the province’s carbon tax could… Read More »
Bovine tuberculosis crisis update
Posted on May 10, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com The bovine tuberculosis crisis in southeastern Alberta has largely abated, but a post-mortem of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s… Read More »
Sweet start to sugar beet season
Posted on April 26, 2017By J.W. Schnarr Southern Alberta Newspapers — Lethbridge The arrival of spring means seeds for the fall sugar beet harvest will soon be going into… Read More »
Irrigation districts wary of mussel infestation
Posted on April 19, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com Keeping rats out of Alberta has been an epic battle waged with deadly seriousness over the years. But with… Read More »
TID reviews year that was 2016
Posted on April 12, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com Providing an overview of the Taber Irrigation District’s (TID) myriad operations in 2016, board chair Tony Machacek noted water… Read More »
Due diligence needed in solar agreements; M.D. council
Posted on April 5, 2017By Nikki Jamieson Taber Times njamieson@tabertimes.com With the recent surge of solar companies vying to get into southern Alberta, the Municipal District of Taber council… Read More »
Potato market expanded
Posted on March 22, 2017Member of Parliament Dan Vandal on behalf of Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lawrence MacAulay, was in Winnipeg recently to provide remarks at the Canadian… Read More »
Wild west for environmental regulation with oil wells; Boychuk
Posted on March 15, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com The problem of just who should be responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells has had a… Read More »
Proving sustainability is sugar beet industry’s focus in 2017
Posted on March 1, 2017By Trevor Busch Taber Times tbusch@tabertimes.com The year 2016 was a year of transition for the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers (ASBG), with significant turnover on… Read More »