Agriculture

2021 Peace Country Beef Congress cancelled

The 2021 edition of the Peace Country Beef Congress has been cancelled.It has been held every year since 1998 and is usually held in January. Dawson Creek's Lakota AgriPlex would have been the host ve...

Sep 29, 2020

Special harvest near Bear Lake completed

The Bear Lake Growing Project crop for this year will not be staying in the field.Combining the 130-acre barley field, donated by the Polasek family, was started on Sunday and finished on Tuesday.Spok...

Sep 25, 2020

Some Evergreen Park staff re-hired, event bookings happening again

Evergreen Park has been able to hire back 20 of the 55 employees it was forced to lay off in March when the pandemic hit.The County of Grande Prairie has agreed to cover the payroll for the rest of th...

Sep 18, 2020

Harvest progressing in the County of Grande Prairie

Ten to 25 per cent of the harvest is done in the County of Grande Prairie.Ag. Fieldman Sonja Raven says rain earlier this week interrupted harvest work."The rain that we had delayed things for a littl...

Sep 17, 2020

FCC AgriSpirt Fund grants announced

Four grants from the 2020 round of funding from the FCC AgriSpirit Fund are coming to Northwestern Alberta and Northeastern BC.The City is getting $25,000 for a new water treatment system for the Dave...

Sep 16, 2020

Seven per cent of Peace Region crop combined as of September 8

The September 8 crop report from Alberta Agriculture says seven per cent of the Peace Region crop had been combined by that date. Another 23 per cent was swathed and 70 per cent was still standing.Har...

Sep 14, 2020

Saddle Hills County ready for the next step in $40 million water line project

Saddle Hills County says a $40 million water project it has been working on for five years is ready to move ahead.This would include building a new supply intake on the Peace River and a 36-kilometre ...

Sep 11, 2020

Swathing, combining well underway in Saddle Hills County

The Rural Development Department at Saddle Hills County says most of that area's canola has been swathed.Also, 60 per cent of the peas have been combined while combining cereal crops will start soon.I...

Sep 10, 2020

County of Grande Prairie looking for people to sit on boards and committees

The County of Grande Prairie is looking for people to sit on some of its boards and committees.Those include the Agricultural Service Board, Agriculture Appeal Committee, County Library Board, Intermu...

Sep 10, 2020

Peace Region farmers can apply for hail insurance premium refunds

The Agriculture Financial Services Corporation is offering refunds on hail insurance to some farmers.Farmers who have what AFSC calls "non-viable acres due to excess moisture" can fill out an applicat...

Sep 03, 2020