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Viterra has officially reached the finish line in its merger with Australian agribusiness ABB Grain Ltd., adding four of ABB's former directors at the Regina firm's boardroom table. (Dave Bedard photo)

Farmers have begun to ask the question that’s on many flax growers’ minds: Who’s to blame for the contamination of Canada’s flax by CDC Triffid? (Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)

Paul Beingessner, a well-known writer and advocate on Prairie farming issues, died Thursday afternoon in an apparent machinery entanglement on his southern Saskatchewan farm. (Photo courtesy Beingessner family)

Canadian National Railway isn't bound by law to keep or operate a producer car loading site wherever one exists or a farmer wants one, Canada's transport regulator has ruled. (Dave Bedard photo)

Most grain and oilseed production estimates were up from August in Statistics Canada's latest crop production survey, but market participants expect even further increases in the agency's December update. (Dave Bedard photo)

Australian bulk grain-handling firm GrainCorp plans to buy Canada Malting and its three sister companies in United Malt Holdings (UMH) for just under C$700 million. (Co-operator file photo by Glen Nicoll)

While farmers, economists and politicians debate agriculture’s future, John Toone (left) and Grosse Isle, Man. farmer Ian Smith are building their own little piece of it. (Country Guide photo by Ryan Fennessy)

A report painting the dairy sector as a drag on Canada's economic competitiveness ignores managed markets' benefits in reducing price volatility, according to the national dairy farmers' body. (Photo by Scott Bauer courtesy USDA/ARS)

A number of factors, not the least of which is a Canadian dollar trading at around US97 cents, is making Canadian calves less appealing to U.S. buyers.(Co-operator photo by Daniel Winters)

Overriding her own ministry's appeal tribunal, Ontario's Agriculture Minister Carol Mitchell has laid out her own plan to have a dual-marketing system for hogs in the province by December. (Laura Rance photo)