Insights and Stories of FBC staff

ABIC: Biotech wheat stays on the shelf

Sep. 26, 2007 at 6:25 pm CDT

Calgary — While biotechnology has made huge gains in corn and soybeans, it has yet to penetrate markets for the world’s two leading food grains, wheat and rice. Until farmers and consumers decide to change their minds, that’s how it’s likely to stay, speakers said at the 2007 Agricultural Biotechnology […]

Report urges cash support for Sask. organic farms

Sep. 26, 2007 at 6:02 pm CDT

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Alta. lifts cap on wind power

Sep. 26, 2007 at 5:35 pm CDT

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CN to buy U.S. Steel’s Chicago line

Sep. 26, 2007 at 4:52 pm CDT

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Viterra: That’s “VT” to brokers

Sep. 26, 2007 at 4:06 pm CDT

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Farmlife editor Bonnie Thompson, 58

Sep. 26, 2007 at 3:18 pm CDT

Bonnie Thompson, who edited the Farmlife section of Grainews and the Country Crossroads section of the Manitoba Co-operator, died early Tuesday morning of complications from a long bout with cancer. Thompson, 58, was born in southwestern Manitoba and came to the publishing division of Winnipeg-based United Grain Growers in July […]

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“May contain traces” is too little warning: CFIA

Sep. 26, 2007 at 2:06 pm CDT

There may be a crackdown on how packaged foods’ precautionary labels are worded, if food processors choose not to accurately reflect allergy risks in their warnings, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said yesterday. In an advisory to manufacturers and importers, CFIA and Health Canada noted that their policy on these […]

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Alta. would intervene in CWB case: minister

Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm CDT

Alberta says it will again apply for intervener status if the federal government is granted leave to appeal a ruling that shut down its plans for an open market in Prairie barley. In a column distributed by the provincial agriculture department, Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld said the province “will remain […]

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Pork council joins call for higher hog prices

Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm CDT

The Canadian Pork Council yesterday joined six other national hog farmer groups in calling for “immediate lifts” in farmer returns and wholesale and retail pork prices. Speaking from the World Pork Conference in Nanjing, China, the CPC and farmer groups from Britain, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa […]

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Packers’ group names Canadian spokesman

Sep. 26, 2007 at 12:43 pm CDT

Robert de Valk, an Ottawa-based consultant on food regulatory issues, is the new Canadian government affairs director for the North American Meat Processors Association (NAMP). The group, which represents North American meat processors and their associates from offices in Reston, Va. (near Washington, D.C.) and in Ottawa, said in a […]

By FBC staff