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Nufarm offers Assert/Frontline combo

Nov. 21, 2007 at 5:20 pm CST

Nufarm Canada expects to save farmers time and money by offering its Assert wild oat herbicide boxed together with Dow AgroSciences’ broadleaf product Frontline, to be sold as Assert FL. Calgary-based Nufarm, which bought the Group 2 brand Assert from BASF in 2005, said it found a “high percentage” of […]

NFU wants ombudsman to probe OMAFRA

Nov. 21, 2007 at 4:07 pm CST

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Ethanol supports harm broader ag sector: report

Nov. 21, 2007 at 1:59 pm CST

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Potatoes turned back from Algeria: CBC

Nov. 20, 2007 at 2:45 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ottawa funds Ont. farmers’ promotional campaign

Nov. 20, 2007 at 2:00 pm CST

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Disease shuts U.S. border to Alta. potatoes: AFE

Nov. 20, 2007 at 2:11 am CST

The U.S. border has been closed to seed potatoes from Alberta after the plant pest golden nematode was found on two seed potato fields, Alberta Farmer Express reports. Staff with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Potato Growers of Alberta confirmed in interviews with the Alberta farm paper’s editor Janet […]

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OTM rule in effect

Nov. 20, 2007 at 1:20 am CST

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s long-awaited “Rule 2,” allowing imports of Canadian cattle born after March 1, 1999, took effect Monday with no reported incident. “This government and our industry partners have worked closely with the American industry and with the USDA to achieve this goal,” said federal Agriculture Minister […]

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New risk management programs to kick in for ’08

Nov. 19, 2007 at 5:20 pm CST

Canada’s agriculture ministers will move to have their new suite of business risk management (BRM) programs running by the time their previous five-year Agricultural Policy Framework (APF) expires at the end of March. Coming out of their meeting in Toronto over the weekend, the federal, provincial and territorial ag ministers […]

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Quebec hog farmers get third ASRA advance

Nov. 17, 2007 at 5:34 pm CST

Quebec’s provincial farm finance agency, La Financiere agricole, will issue a third advance from the ASRA program to the province’s hog farmers, dated Nov. 14. The agency, which administers the ASRA (Assurance stabilisation des revenus agricoles) program, made the announcement Thursday. This advance, which represents $6.50 per hog and $46 […]

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CWB raises ’07-08 initials, adds ’06-07 interim

Nov. 17, 2007 at 5:07 pm CST

The federal government has approved substantial raises in the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2007-08 initial payments for Prairie wheat, durum and barley, by as much as $131.25 per tonne for No. 1 Canada Western Amber durum. The CWB announced the approved increase Friday, the same day as a new interim payment […]

By FBC staff