The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry will be considering a bill that would remove the two zones for employment insurance purposes in Prince Edward island during a meeting slated for Thursday.

The House of Commons Standing Committee will be starting its study of Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act during a meeting on Thursday.

Even with all of our scientific wizardry and technological know-how, two minuscule microbes continue to risk a lot of damage to our health, and, on PEI, to our economy.

***The proposal from Health Canada to put a front of package label on ground beef warning it could be high in saturated fat is causing a fair amount of concern within the beef industry. Both producers and processors have been arguing, I think rightly so, it lumps a product that is an afforda…

Islanders are invited to showcase the province and its primary industries by entering the annual Celebrate PEI Agriculture Photo Contest.

While it has been a long time in the works, the general manager of the PEI Potato Board said he is pleased with the process that now allows Island producers to apply for high-capacity wells.

Proposed Health Canada regulations that would require ground beef to carry a front of package label indicating it is high in saturated fat could cause confusion for consumers and unfairly taint a product that is an affordable source of protein, says the president of Atlantic Beef Products Inc.

Facing skyrocketing costs with no end in sight, the chair of Dairy Farmers of PEI said the industry had no choice but to ask the Canadian Dairy Commission for an advance price adjustment on farm gate prices.

A small number of producers of high value crops like high bush blueberries and hops are participating in a project spearheaded by the Department of Agriculture and Land that uses sap analysis to achieve insights into plant nutrition.

While many fairs and exhibitions are making a return this summer for the first time in three years due to the pandemic, those with an agricultural component will be going ahead without a poultry show.