Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Oct. 16, 2008 at 2:16 pm CDT

Unsecured creditors of Regina seed marketing firm FarmPure Seeds may get about six cents on the dollar out of a deal with the company’s proposed new owner. Ontario turfgrass and forage seed firm Pickseed announced a deal in June to buy FarmPure’s forage and turf seed business and assets at […]

By Dave Bedard

Oct. 1, 2008 at 12:29 pm CDT

Managers of the class-action settlement between feed maker Ridley Inc. and Canadian cattle producers have set a December deadline by which cattle producers must declare if they plan to opt out of the deal. Ridley in 2005 had been named along with the federal government and unnamed bureaucrats in four […]

By Dave Bedard

Sep. 18, 2008 at 1:15 pm CDT

The company formerly known as Pioneer Grain says it won’t stop selling seed to Prairie farmers under the Pioneer name without a fight. Richardson Pioneer, the recently-renamed grain handling wing of Winnipeg agribusiness firm Richardson International, said in a release late Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against it by Pioneer […]

By Dave Bedard

Sep. 17, 2008 at 5:09 pm CDT

Pioneer Hi-Bred says there’s not enough room in Western Canada for two Pioneers to sell seed to farmers. Pioneer Hi-Bred, a major seed breeding and marketing firm owned by DuPont, announced Wednesday it has filed lawsuits in Winnipeg and Toronto against Pioneer Grain, which until recently was the name of […]

By Dave Bedard

Sep. 6, 2008 at 10:05 am CDT

An Ontario cattleman’s lawsuit against the federal government over losses due to BSE is now certified as a class action, with its “class” expanded to include all Canadian cattle producers outside Quebec. Justice Joan Lax of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that the suit — with Niagara […]

By Dave Bedard