Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Prairie wind farmer gets $16M expansion financing

Oct. 31, 2007 at 4:40 pm CDT

Good Energies, a multinational renewable energy investment firm, has announced $16 million for Winnipeg-based wind power firm Sequoia Energy, to finance its new developments in rural Manitoba, Saskatchewan and North Dakota. Sequoia launched Manitoba’s first wind farm, a 99-mW project at St. Leon, and picked up provincial environmental licenses last […]

Nufarm to market Curtail M

Oct. 31, 2007 at 4:19 pm CDT

By FBC staff

KUC to build geothermal greenhouse

Oct. 31, 2007 at 2:38 pm CDT

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Yukon to draft tick control plan for elk

Oct. 31, 2007 at 2:15 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ottawa backs HACCP for grocers

Oct. 31, 2007 at 1:33 pm CDT

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Canola sector backs nutrition research

Oct. 31, 2007 at 1:15 pm CDT

(Revised) — The Canola Council of Canada and industry partners have set up a new fund to back research of canola oil’s use in healthy diets, the commodity group announced Tuesday. The Canola Product Research Fund is backed by the Canola Council, the three Prairie canola growers’ associations, Bayer CropScience, […]

By FBC staff

Danish biotech firm to buy Philom Bios

Oct. 31, 2007 at 1:10 pm CDT

Saskatoon crop inoculant maker Philom Bios recommended Wednesday that its shareholders accept a $25.6 million all-cash takeover bid by Novozymes A/S, a major player in the enzyme and microorganism business. Novozymes, based in Denmark, markets over 700 products in 130 countries for use in industrial and food production. The company […]

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Cash advances planned for N.S. hog farmers

Oct. 30, 2007 at 5:05 pm CDT

Hog farmers in Nova Scotia will get immediate payments through the Targeted Advance Payment program to help deal with “financial difficulties” in the hog sector, Ag Minister Brooke Taylor announced Tuesday. Eligible farmers will be contacted soon and given information on how much of an advance they may be eligible […]

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Planet Organic sales up 47 per cent

Oct. 30, 2007 at 4:31 pm CDT

Organic food and “natural” products retailer Planet Organic Health Corp. posted a 16 per cent increase in net income on a 47 per cent rise in sales this fiscal year, the company said Tuesday. The Edmonton company owns 74 stores in North America, including eight Planet Organic supermarkets in Canada […]

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Grain helps boost CPR’s Q3

Oct. 30, 2007 at 3:16 pm CDT

A 5.5 per cent jump in grain revenue through increased traffic helped Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) improve its third-quarter net by 34 per cent, the company announced Monday. CPR reported net income of $218.6 million on $1.19 billion in revenue for the quarter ending Sept. 30, up from $163.8 million […]

By FBC staff