Insights and Stories of FBC staff

U.S. politicians push to block “Rule 2” for cattle

Oct. 7, 2007 at 5:16 pm CDT

In what some observers call a long-shot measure to stop older Canadian cattle from being exported to the U.S., lawmakers have launched “resolutions of disapproval” in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. U.S. agriculture officials on Sept. 18 published what Canadian cattle organizations have called “Rule 2,” to […]

Hudson Bay track, port get $68M pledge

Oct. 5, 2007 at 6:27 pm CDT

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Quebec wraps up public hearings on farming

Oct. 5, 2007 at 5:32 pm CDT

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Alta. banks can lease farm equipment

Oct. 5, 2007 at 4:51 pm CDT

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USDA pans Ont. firm’s E. coli vaccine

Oct. 5, 2007 at 2:10 pm CDT

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Alta. hog farmers propose recovery plan

Oct. 4, 2007 at 9:11 pm CDT

Recovery for Alberta’s struggling hog farmers will involve tax-funded offsets for the “vastly inflated” cost of feed grains and a “new business relationship” with the province’s biggest packer, according to the province’s hog farmer organization. “In order to keep our largest processor (the Olymel pork plant at Red Deer) in […]

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Man. streamlines land registration for wind farms

Oct. 4, 2007 at 8:31 pm CDT

Manitoba plans to amend its Real Property Act to make it easier for landlords of wind farm operators to sell or mortgage the wind farm’s host land. Currently, anyone doing a title search on land that hosts wind turbines must review not only the owner’s interest, but all the registered […]

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T.O. firm says new cold-press canola process more efficient

Oct. 4, 2007 at 8:14 pm CDT

New oil extraction technology proposed by a Toronto processing firm is expected to create a higher-protein byproduct from the canola it says it plans to crush somewhere in Saskatchewan. Bio-Extraction Inc. (“BioExx” for short) says its new technology will allow it to save the soluble proteins from canola meal that […]

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Ottawa commits to Sask. ethanol project

Oct. 4, 2007 at 7:34 pm CDT

The federal government’s ecoABC initiative will provide $5.05 million toward a northwestern Saskatchewan ethanol plant project, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced today. North West Terminal, an farmer-owned inland grain terminal company at Unity, southwest of North Battleford, announced the 25-million-litre-per year project in mid-summer 2006 and plans to have it […]

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Wheat board becomes podcaster

Oct. 4, 2007 at 7:22 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board will offer Prairie grain farmers the option to download podcasts of analysis and crop outlooks to hear on their home computers or portable MP3 players. (Podcasts are downloadable radio-style broadcasts available from a number of web sites. The name came from their introduction on iTunes, the […]

By FBC staff