Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Jan. 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm CST

Fertilizer maker and input retailer Agrium has again extended its offer to buy UAP, a major North American input retailer, while it waits for green lights from antitrust regulators in both Canada and the U.S. Calgary-based Agrium announced Friday that its US$39-per-share tender offer, which had previously been extended by […]

By Dave Bedard

Nov. 7, 2007 at 6:55 pm CST

The new owners at farm equipment maker Buhler Industries have voted in new executives to run the Manitoba company. John Buhler, the company’s founder, CEO and board chairman, has resigned from those posts, as has Ossama AbouZeid, the president, secretary treasurer and chief financial officer, one week after Russian manufacturer […]

By Dave Bedard

Oct. 19, 2007 at 3:20 pm CDT

Shipping and grain handling firm Upper Lakes Group of Toronto has hired ousted Canadian Wheat Board CEO Adrian Measner to head its grains group of companies. Citing Measner’s public statements in favour of the CWB’s sales monopoly on Prairie wheat and barley, then-federal Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl fired him from […]

By Dave Bedard

Sep. 14, 2007 at 2:00 pm CDT

The United States will allow imports of older live Canadian cattle and their beef effective Nov. 19, U.S. agriculture officials announced this morning. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it will expand its list of allowable imports from countries recognized as posing “minimal risk” for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE […]

By Dave Bedard