Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Jun. 22, 2012 at 4:39 am CDT

Over two dozen sheep that vanished from a scrapie-quarantined eastern Ontario farm for about two months have all tested negative for the brain-wasting disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday confirmed it had recovered, euthanized and tested 26 of the 31 adult sheep that went missing in early April […]

By Dave Bedard

Jun. 21, 2012 at 12:52 pm CDT

Canada’s biggest grain handler and five other companies have now committed to move Prairie grain on behalf of CWB. Viterra on Thursday announced a new agreement to accept deliveries of grain that farmers commit to CWB contracts at all its locations across Western Canada. The agreement also includes port handling […]

By Dave Bedard

May. 16, 2012 at 5:10 pm CDT

A United Nations expert sees Canada’s "export-led" agricultural and trade policies hampering the farming sector’s ability to move to "sustainable and decentralized" food systems. Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, wrapped up his official visit to Canada on Wednesday with a statement that credits […]

By Dave Bedard

May. 8, 2012 at 6:19 pm CDT

The dairy farmer co-operatives now making Yoplait for the Canadian market will do so for at least six more years but will also launch their own new yogurt and dairy goods line this summer. A custom processing agreement announced Tuesday between Ultima Foods and the Canadian arm of the Yoplait […]

By Dave Bedard

May. 4, 2012 at 3:20 pm CDT

A quarantined southeastern Ontario farm where 31 sheep vanished last month, just before they were to be destroyed and tested for scrapie, is now down by nine more sheep, all scrapie-negative. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed this week that it took nine sheep from Linda Montana Jones’ farm last […]

By Dave Bedard