Insights and Stories of FBC staff

PotashCorp posts record Q3

Oct. 26, 2007 at 1:13 am CDT

Predicting price hikes for its main product on tighter supplies in 2008, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan on Thursday announced record third-quarter earnings, also the second-highest quarterly earnings in its history. PotashCorp reported a net income of $243.1 million on $1.3 billion in sales for the quarter, up from $145.2 million […]

Maple Leaf improves Q3 in mid-restructuring

Oct. 26, 2007 at 12:49 am CDT

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Hog inventories continue falling: StatsCan

Oct. 26, 2007 at 12:03 am CDT

By FBC staff

Quebec sees net farm income “stability” in ’07

Oct. 25, 2007 at 11:35 pm CDT

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B.C. to freeze rural representation

Oct. 25, 2007 at 10:45 pm CDT

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Tight stocks drive record highs for durum: PRO

Oct. 25, 2007 at 5:37 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board boosted its 2007-08 pool return outlooks (PROs) $27 per tonne for milling durum on Thursday, reflecting what it calls “extremely tight” stocks worldwide. Milling wheat PROs dropped $2 to $5, reflecting a “highly volatile” trend as world wheat prices come down off record highs from previous […]

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Health Canada launches food recall database

Oct. 24, 2007 at 4:36 pm CDT

Health Canada has put up a new searchable database of food and children’s product recalls for Canadian consumers. The site, at www.healthycanadians.gc.ca, includes separate listings of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s food alerts and recalls, Health Canada’s children’s toy and product recalls and a search function to check for specific […]

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Grains boost Scotiabank commodity index

Oct. 24, 2007 at 1:56 pm CDT

The agricultural index in Scotiabank’s Commodity Price Index jumped 6.7 per cent month-over-month during September, helping pull the commodity index out of a three-month decline. Patricia Mohr, the company’s vice-president of economics and commodity market specialist, wrote in a research report Wednesday that agriculture and energy helped the overall index […]

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Breeders send biggest post-BSE export boatload

Oct. 24, 2007 at 11:50 am CDT

A boatload of 2,217 Canadian purebred Angus, Holstein and Hereford cattle left for Russia Tuesday as part of Canada’s biggest export of breeding stock since the discovery of BSE in Alberta in 2003. The cattle were shipped from Quebec’s Port de Becancour en route to Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, […]

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Input sought on Jordan FTA

Oct. 24, 2007 at 11:27 am CDT

With eyes on a possible free trade deal, the federal government wants to hear from Canadians on their views and experiences dealing with the kingdom of Jordan. A call for consultations, issued Monday, stems from talks in July between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, where the […]

By FBC staff