Recipe: Oriental Egg Stir-Fry Serves    4  /  Preparation    10 minutes  /  Cooking    15 minutes Ingredients: Cooking spray 3                medium carrots, cut in matchsticks                         3 1 cup        snow peas                                                                    250 mL 1                large red or yellow pepper, cut in strips                  1 1 can         (199 mL) sliced water chestnuts, ...

[ This is part one of a two part article - see our next issue for part 2 ] Canada’s egg farmers are dedicated to ensuring they provide fresh, high quality eggs for you and your family. In order to ensure a stable supply throughout the year, a form of agricultural marketing known as supply management was developed. Supply management is uniquely Canadian. Five agricultural commodities are supply – managed: eggs, milk, turkey, chicken and broiler hatching eggs. Federal and provincial laws allow farmers to work together to determine how ...

Potato Industry holds Partners Seminar The United Potato Growers of Canada held a partner’s seminar in Charlottetown recently to brief industry representatives on the upcoming growing season. Similar meetings were held in other major potato growing areas in North America. Over 100 growers, dealers, lenders and other industry members attended the Island session. Ray Keenan, a long time member of the Island industry and chair of United Canada, recapped United’s mission to improve the marketing of potatoes by developing better market information, ...

The PEI Flavours logo has been developed under the Department of Agriculture’s Buy PEI program to increase the visibility of PEI produced food and the people that produce it. It will be used for buy local promotion, export markets and culinary tourism initiatives. To increase coordination of industry and government for these promotions, the PEI Culinary Alliance was formed in September, 2009. The Alliance is made up of representatives from the PEI Potato Board, PEI Seafood Processors Association, Tourism, Culinary Institute of Canada, PEI ...

On the evening of March 31, 2010 over forty beef producers came together at the Farm Centre in Charlottetown for their Annual Meeting. After the business portion of the meeting, Les Halliday led us through an extensive list of ways to save costs down on the farm. There were lots of take home ideas that could make a difference to your bottom line. His presentation will be added to our website at www.peicattleproducers.com so you can read over his suggestions at your leisure. We also reviewed a couple of other programs to make sure producers were ...

Mr. Ernie Mutch By now most producers have finished planting another crop. A lot of decisions had to be made again this year about what crops we might grow to make a profit. I had a conversation with a local seed sales person as to what types of grain I should grow in order to make a reasonable return. The sales person told me they had the same conversation with someone else 30 years ago. So I guess some things never change! The PEI Federation of Agriculture continues to work on your behalf. There always seem to be meetings to attend. Recently ...

Mr. Mike Nabuurs Executive Director’s Final Word As most of you know, I have tendered my resignation from the PEI Federation of Agriculture to take a new job with Atlantic Beef Products in Albany, PEI.  The time that I have shared with the board of directors, staff and members of the Federation has been extremely rewarding.  I am confident that this experience will  give me the ability to have a positive impact at the beef plant. I appreciate the many kind words and sentiments of support that I have received, for both my upcoming ...

Spring Valley Farms wins Clements award for sustainable agriculture Spring Valley Farms, Blair & Trent Caseley, is the 2010 winner of the Gilbert R. Clements Award for Excellence in Environmental Farm Planning. Spring Valley Farms is a family farm with a strong sense of purpose when it comes to environmental protection and the effect of their farming activities on the environment and natural resources around them. Blair & Trent have a long history of involvement in the agriculture community and have been pioneers in soil conservation, nutrient ...

HowMac Farms Ltd named Agriculture Employer of Year The P.E.I. Agriculture Sector Council has presented the second annual Agriculture Employer of the Year Award to owners Blaine & Doreen MacPherson and manager Craig McCloskey of HowMac Farms Ltd. in Darlington. This award that recognizes an agricultural employer that utilizes good human resource practices to ensure their employees have a positive and friendly workplace environment. It was presented during the Excellence in Agriculture banquet held by the federation. HowMac Farms grows over 700 ...

Jessica Reeves honoured for work in classroom The P.E.I. Agriculture Awareness Committee has presented the 2009 Teacher Recognition Award to Jessica Reeves, a teacher at Kensington Intermediate Senior High School. This award recognizes a teacher, class, or school that has demonstrated efforts to incorporate agriculture into their classroom activities, above and beyond the normal curriculum standards or their responsibility as a teacher. Jessica teaches the Agri-Science 801 course and the Agriculture 621 course at the high school level.  Through ...