Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Bayer’s crop marketing, crop production platforms in sync

Nov. 8, 2023 at 9:26 pm CST

Combyne, the made-in-Canada grain marketing platform Bayer bought earlier this year, is now fully on speaking terms with the company’s Climate FieldView precision ag platform. Bayer on Oct. 30 announced integration of the two platforms, which it said will allow grain farmers in Canada and the U.S. to connect their […]

Seaway workers ratify labour deal

Nov. 7, 2023 at 8:03 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

St. Lawrence traffic to resume as tentative labour deal reached

Oct. 30, 2023 at 11:58 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Seaway workers’ strike underway

Oct. 22, 2023 at 9:36 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Seaway to seek order exempting grain traffic from strike action

Oct. 20, 2023 at 8:23 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

AgriRecovery feed, freight, breeding herd aid set for Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C.

Oct. 20, 2023 at 3:03 pm CDT

The federal and Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia governments are jointly putting up $365 million to support ranchers and farmers up against this summer’s drought and wildfire damage. The feds on Friday announced their 60 per cent, or $219 million, share of AgriRecovery program funding for the three westernmost provinces. […]

By Dave Bedard

Seaway workers serve strike notice

Oct. 19, 2023 at 7:56 am CDT

Five Unifor locals representing 361 workers with the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. (SLSMC) have served their 72 hours’ notice of a strike that could shut the waterway to grain and all other traffic just after midnight Sunday at the earliest. Unifor members represented by Locals 4211, 4212 and 4323 […]

By Dave Bedard

Former ag minister returns in new Manitoba cabinet

Oct. 18, 2023 at 7:51 pm CDT

Incoming Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has brought a former provincial agriculture minister back to the cabinet table to handle the ag file. Ron Kostyshyn, who from 2012 to 2016 was then-premier Greg Selinger’s ag minister while serving as MLA for the northwestern riding of Swan River, was sworn in Wednesday […]

By Dave Bedard

FCC to offer beef heifer replacement loans

Oct. 17, 2023 at 5:12 pm CDT

Cattle producers wanting to expand or maintain herds — in a time of nationwide herd contraction — are the expected beneficiaries for a new loan program from Farm Credit Canada. FCC on Tuesday announced what it calls the Replacement Heifer Program, consisting of a loan with a maximum loan life […]

By Dave Bedard

Hold off on milk price hike, dairy farmers say

Oct. 17, 2023 at 11:28 am CDT

The process to set the next national price adjustment for Canadian milk will now take an extra week, triggered by stakeholder objections, for a round of consultations — in which the national dairy farmer group plans to call for a delay on any increase. The Canadian Dairy Commission — the […]

By Dave Bedard

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