'Cautiously optimistic': Two young Nova Scotia blueberry farmers are ready for their first good season after four bad ones
Between the equipment that harvests the blueberries, the series of conveyors that carry them around the tractor and the totes they pile into on the back, there’s upwards of 100 bearings. Aidan Brothers, 23, and Rowan Brothers, 22, changed each of them on four harvester heads over the winter. On each, there’s over 1,000 steel […]
'Cautiously optimistic': Two young Nova Scotia blueberry farmers are ready for their first good season after four bad ones
Between the equipment that harvests the blueberries, the series of conveyors that carry them around the tractor and the totes they pile into on the back, there’s upwards of 100 bearings. Aidan Brothers, 23, and Rowan Brothers, 22, changed each of them on four harvester heads over the winter. On each, there’s over 1,000 steel […]
'Cautiously optimistic': Two young Nova Scotia blueberry farmers are ready for their first good season after four bad ones
Between the equipment that harvests the blueberries, the series of conveyors that carry them around the tractor and the totes they pile into on the back, there’s upwards of 100 bearings. Aidan Brothers, 23, and Rowan Brothers, 22, changed each of them on four harvester heads over the winter. On each, there’s over 1,000 steel […]
DFO raises elver quota for 2026, promises to enforce law on illegal fisheries
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is raising the total allowable catch for elvers this year by 22 per cent despite extensive illegal fisheries in recent seasons. On Tuesday, the department announced a 12,180-kilogram total allowable catch (TAC), up from 9,960 kilograms in recent years, for the season that opens “around April 1.” Fifty per cent of […]
DFO raises elver quota for 2026, promises to enforce law on illegal fisheries
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is raising the total allowable catch for elvers this year by 22 per cent despite extensive illegal fisheries in recent seasons. On Tuesday, the department announced a 12,180-kilogram total allowable catch (TAC), up from 9,960 kilograms in recent years, for the season that opens “around April 1.” Fifty per cent of […]
'Northern connector' could be Antigonish's answer to construction paralysis problems, but it wouldn't be cheap
Antigonish town council is weighing the costs of a new road that would prevent a repeat of last fall’s congestion while opening up development. Tentatively dubbed the “northern connector” and “hospital avenue,” it would start behind the town on the Cloverville Road, near what was once the Scotsburn Dairy facility, and travel through a forested […]
'Northern connector' could be Antigonish's answer to construction paralysis problems, but it wouldn't be cheap
Antigonish town council is weighing the costs of a new road that would prevent a repeat of last fall’s congestion while opening up development. Tentatively dubbed the “northern connector” and “hospital avenue,” it would start behind the town on the Cloverville Road, near what was once the Scotsburn Dairy facility, and travel through a forested […]