Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Man. moves to regulate biofuels sector

Oct. 4, 2007 at 7:03 pm CDT

A licensing regime for biofuel makers, new fuel quality standards and mandated biodiesel sales will be pumped into a package of biofuels legislation coming back to the Manitoba legislature, the province announced today. The Biofuels Amendment Act, which sputtered before the assembly shut down for this summer’s provincial election, proposes […]

Alta. harvest continues around showers: AFSC

Oct. 4, 2007 at 1:09 pm CDT

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Sask. avian flu cull complete

Oct. 4, 2007 at 12:06 pm CDT

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Cost weighs on fertilizer decisions: survey

Oct. 3, 2007 at 5:43 pm CDT

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Prop bottles led to Stella scare: Labatt

Oct. 3, 2007 at 5:16 pm CDT

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Ecological pilot targets Missisquoi Bay farmers

Oct. 3, 2007 at 4:59 pm CDT

A $1.27 million ecological goods and services (EG&S) pilot project to reduce blue-green algae in Missisquoi Bay will fund about 60 farmers in the area to cut down on phosphorus entering the watershed. Missisquoi Bay, south of Montreal on Quebec’s border with Vermont, has become a “laboratory” in recent years […]

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Manitoba to regulate organic sector

Oct. 2, 2007 at 6:26 pm CDT

Legislation to regulate the sale and trade of organic food within Manitoba is back on the table after last summer’s provincial election. The provincial Organic Agricultural Products Act will include many of the standards and procedures as the national organic products regulations introduced in December, said Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk, […]

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Manitoba combines back in fields

Oct. 2, 2007 at 6:07 pm CDT

Farmers in Manitoba’s central, southwest and eastern regions were able to push forward with harvest as the weather dried up last week, the province reported Monday in its weekly crop update. Relatively few canola acres, especially in the northwest, remain unharvested, while yields on harvested crop are just under 30 […]

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Northeastern Sask. behind curve on harvest

Oct. 2, 2007 at 5:39 pm CDT

Harvest in Saskatchewan’s northern grain belt remains far behind the rest of the province, leaving the harvest 87 per cent complete provincewide, the agriculture department said yesterday. That’s up from 78 per cent last week and from the five-year average of 79 per cent, but down from 92 per cent […]

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Alta. to fund barley growers’ intervention

Oct. 2, 2007 at 5:23 pm CDT

After announcing it would file for intervener status in the federal government’s latest legal battle to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk for barley, Alberta’s provincial government pledged to back another intervention also. The Western Barley Growers Association, based in Airdrie, Alta., will get up to $50,000 from the […]

By FBC staff