[Truro, NS] – A Debert company has been named as a recipient of an Export Achievement Award by Nova Scotia Business Inc.

Farm Focus – Agriculture

The International Trade Tribunal has turned aside an appeal by Dairy Farmers of Canada, so imports of pizza kits can continue without facing a dairy-products tariff of 245.5 per cent.
Farm Focus – Canada / World

While the northeastern U.S. prepares for an invasion of billions of the large red-eyed flying bugs, David McCorquodale, an entomologist and the dean of science at Cape Breton University, said Cape Bretoners can relax in the knowledge that it probably won’t be so bad here.
Farm Focus – NB-NL-NS-PEI

[Fort Lawrence, NS] –Land and business owners in the Fort Lawrence (Nova Scotia) area are growing increasingly impatient with a government pledge to replace the aboiteau on the LaPlanche River.
Farm Focus – Agriculture

[Corner Brook, NL] — The (Newfoundland Labrador) province’s bat population has been spared a deadly fungus which has killed millions of bats in the United States and has reached the Maritimes.

Farm Focus – NB-NL-NS-PEI

Eight United States associations are asking the government to delay a new and tougher set of mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) regulations.
Farm Focus – Canada / World

Prince Edward Island potato growers are in the middle of one of the busiest times of their year — planting season.
Farm Focus – Agriculture

There was a mistake in a press release. Prince Edward Island will host the second “Food vs Fuel: The Great Grain Debate” in June not July as originally published.
Farm Focus – NB-NL-NS-PEI

Farm Focus is working on a story about the 235 Agriculture Agri-Food Canada employees who have been notified that their jobs may be eliminated.
Farm Focus – Canada / World

Arbor Day celebrated at elementary school
Farm Focus – Forestry