PEI Periodical and Article Database

: Agri-entrepreneurs' forum planned for Farm Centre; "In celebration of Global Entrepreneurs Week, ADAPT PEI and The PEI Farm Centre will host an entrepreneurship forum November 19 at the Farm Centre starting at noon.", ***unscanned

: Agri-tourism; Discusses the market for agri-tourism on the Island and encourages more potato growers to set up farm tours throughout the growing season.

: Agricultural Insurance Corporation hosts open house after move to Kensington; Staff of the Agricultural Insurance Corporation (AIC) are now operating out of a new head office in the former Potato Services Building, Kensington; the AIC is a crown corporation that provides crop insurance and income support programs to farmers.

: Agricultural resources, agriculture production and settlement at Confederation.

: Agriculture Committee calls for transportation help for hog industry; The Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Energy and Environment recommends the province provide funding support towards transportation costs faced by PEI hog farmers. Due to the absence of a local processing facility, PEI hog producers must ship their hogs to Quebec, which adds approximately $12/hog above what other Canadian hog farmers pay on average for transportation.

: Agriculture Committee wants moratorium to stay in place; The Standing committee on Agriculture, Environment, Energy and Forestry recommends that the moratorium on deep water wells for the purpose of agricultural irrigation not be lifted at this time.

: Agriculture Growth Act patently absurd; The Agricultural Growth Act, Bill C-18, is an omnibus bill amending nine separate pieces of agricultural legislation that would greatly increase corporate control of seed and result in higher seed costs for farmers. Previous legislation that would be amended by this act include: The Plant Breeders' Rights Act (PBRA) and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), which is an international convention of which Canada is a member state and signatory. The primary purpose of the C-18 measures is to increase revenues for seed companies. It is anticipated that litigation and the gradual de-registration of publicly available varieties will result in farmers replacing farm-saved seed with seed purchased from the company every year.

: Agriculture at bottom of business barometer; CFIB released a report that the agricultural sector in Canada was not feeling very optimistic about it's economic performance. Erin McGrath-Gaudet predicts that there will be an upswing soon in our outlook as the changes to EI and HST will have been absorbed by small businesses active within the economy

: Agriculture at bottom of business barometer in August; "Prince Edward Island once again has Canada's least optimistic businesses, with its index sinking to 56.5.", ***unscanned

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