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Sep. 23, 2008 at 1:47 pm CDT

The Quebec government plans to put up $440,000 for construction of a new meat processing facility in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard on Tuesday announced the funding for the Centre de transformation de la viande du Bas-Saint-Laurent (or CTV for short), which is expected to start processing sheep […]

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Sep. 22, 2008 at 6:08 pm CDT

The federal government has launched a last-minute appeal of a Federal Court ruling overturning a controversial “gag order” on the Canadian Wheat Board, the National Farmers Union reported Monday. The appeal was filed “late Friday, Sept. 19, on the last possible date,” the NFU said in a release Monday. Ottawa’s […]

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Sep. 22, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

Warm, dry weather over much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba last week allowed farmers to make “significant” harvest progress, the two provinces’ agriculture departments reported Monday. Saskatchewan farmers have harvested 66 per cent of the 2008 crop, up from 39 per cent the previous week and above the 2003-07 average of […]

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Sep. 20, 2008 at 2:12 am CDT

A $564 million “regional flexibility fund” for farm programming is among the promises on offer from the federal Liberals leading up to next month’s election. Liberal leader Stephane Dion and members of the Liberal caucus and candidates’ roster appeared Friday morning at a farm at Headingley, Man., just west of […]

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Sep. 20, 2008 at 1:34 am CDT

Just days after suing over the removal of spending limits on third-party electioneering for Canadian Wheat Board directorships, a Prairie farmers’ group is taking the federal government to court again over further changes to the election process. “The Harper government’s latest attack on the CWB is clearly designed to prevent […]

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