Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Safety campaign offers equipment maintenance decals

Dec. 5, 2007 at 5:49 pm CST

Farmers can get up to 100 free new decals to keep notes on their farm machinery about regularly scheduled maintenance, through a nationwide farm safety program. The vinyl decals can be written on with a ballpoint pen to record the date, work summary and initials of the person doing the […]

Husky ethanol plant hits startup phase

Dec. 4, 2007 at 6:02 pm CST

By FBC staff

U.S. rival buys Man. veterinary needle maker

Dec. 4, 2007 at 5:30 pm CST

By FBC staff

Lethbridge biogas power plant funded

Dec. 4, 2007 at 3:30 pm CST

By FBC staff

N.S. food “micro-factory” funded

Dec. 4, 2007 at 3:09 pm CST

By FBC staff

Crops’ viability for B.C. Peace to be studied

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:43 pm CST

A five-year project to find the crop varieties best suited to B.C.’s Peace River region and its “unique” growing conditions will get federal backing. Peace-area MP Jay Hill announced Ottawa’s pledge Saturday of $1.2 million for the B.C. Peace River Cereal, Flax and Pulse Crop Enhancement project. The project will […]

By FBC staff

Ont. to fund farm water protection

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:17 am CST

Farmers in Ontario are among those who can tap a new $4 million provincial government fund for water protection work in rural areas. The funding was part of a $7 million water stewardship package announced Monday, also including money to promote awareness of what individuals can do and to fund […]

By FBC staff

Cargill to expand at Camrose

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:01 am CST

Cargill has started construction work to more than double the storage at its newly-acquired grain handling facility at Camrose in central Alberta. The Camrose East elevator is a former Agricore United facility sold to Cargill this summer as part of a deal with Saskatchewan Wheat Pool to satisfy antitrust watchdogs […]

By FBC staff

Agrium to buy UAP

Dec. 4, 2007 at 12:35 am CST

Calgary’s Agrium, one of the world’s top fertilizer production companies, has reached a US$2.65 billion all-cash deal to buy UAP, the biggest independent ag input distributor in Canada and the U.S. The deal, worth US$39 per share of UAP Holdings, is already approved by both companies’ boards of directors, Agrium […]

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Farmed fuels bill and incentives finalized

Dec. 3, 2007 at 7:02 pm CST

The federal government on Monday announced the bill that will give it the power to regulate renewable fuel content in Canadian gasoline and diesel, as well as details on a previously announced incentive program for production of homegrown biofuels. The biofuels bill will make the changes to ensure Ottawa meets […]

By FBC staff