There’s a new comet in the sky that has gained a lot of attention lately over its potential to become visible to the naked eye. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was discovered by observatories in China and South Africa in early 2023. Believed to have originated from the Oort Cloud — a giant spherical shell that … Read more
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is looking into the massive bee kill that happened at Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary in Lively early in June. Spokesperson Gary Wheeler told CBC News in an email that staff visited the property where the sudden deaths took place in late August. They are currently “assessing the available information … Read more
Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada’s food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store shelf, say experts. “Anytime you have major weather-related events, it tends to increase costs,” said Frank Scali, vice-president of industry affairs at Food, Health & … Read more
India’s cotton cultivation has declined and will be down by 10% to 12% this season compared with the last one, said Cotton Association of India president Atul S. Ganatra. Mr. Ganatra blamed this on falling crop yields per hectare. While the world average is 800 kg per hectare, it is almost half that in India, … Read more
Walking through the buzz and brush of her bee yard, Maggie Lamothe-Boudreau points to a nearly empty wooden pallet that used to house hives in her field in Saint-Adrien-d’Irlande, Que. She’s about 200,000 bees short. Last week, four hives disappeared overnight in what she suspects was an amateur hive heist. Leaving behind a pair of … Read more
Two weeks ago, Dawn Lalonde of Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary in Lively, Ont., was doing a routine checkup on one of her bee yards when she noticed something was off. She usually hears the millions of bees in her 40 or so colonies buzzing around and about. But on that day, there was only silence. “The … Read more
Businesses’ demand for temporary foreign workers has surged across the country in recent years, with employers given the green light to hire more than double the people through the federal program last year as they did five years ago. The program is designed to provide short-term relief to employers as a last resort, but has … Read more
On the surface, last week’s Canada’s Farm Show in Regina was all about exciting new equipment — massive tractors and other heavy duty tools. Under the surface, however, farmers were also expressing serious feelings of frustration with the federal government. In interviews conducted for a special episode of CBC’s The House focusing on politics in Saskatchewan, farmers spoke about perceptions of … Read more
SpaceX has retrieved pieces of debris that fell to earth and were found on Saskatchewan farmland in April. Barry Sawchuk made headlines earlier this year when he said a giant piece of space debris had slammed into his field. On Tuesday, SpaceX employees came to his farm near Ituna, Sask., northeast of Regina, to collect the space … Read more
It all started with a few text messages in late April. Several well-known Canadian scientists — Toronto-based infectious diseases specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Saskatoon-based virologist Angela Rasmussen and Winnipeg-based microbiologist Jason Kindrachuk — were all chatting about the unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. By then, American officials had tracked cow cases … Read more
