Insights and Stories of FBC staff

PotashCorp boosts share buyback

Sep. 11, 2008 at 6:21 pm CDT

Calling its stock “significantly undervalued,” Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan plans to raise the ceiling on its recent share repurchase program to 10 per cent of its common shares. The share buyback program, which PotashCorp announced in January, was originally limited to five per cent of common shares, and that repurchase […]

Near half of farmers pledge to food banks: poll

Sep. 11, 2008 at 5:55 pm CDT

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Prairie hail claims rise: report

Sep. 11, 2008 at 4:25 pm CDT

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Malting barley unchanged in mid-Sept. PRO

Sep. 11, 2008 at 3:35 pm CDT

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Ont. groups to collect livestock drugs, sharps

Sep. 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm CDT

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Canaryseed, mustard groups get new managers

Sep. 11, 2008 at 2:35 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s canaryseed and mustard growers have new management for their commodity groups. Saskatoon ag communications consultant Kevin Hursh, well known in the province for his weekly columns on farm issues, took over Sept. 1 as executive director of the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission and the Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan. […]

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CWB broadens wheat storage program

Sep. 10, 2008 at 10:36 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board has brought back its storage program to keep high-end milling wheat stored in reserve, but will expand it this year to run through all grain elevators across the Prairies. The CWB first introduced its Wheat Storage Program in 2007, with a limited sign-up and a July […]

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Legislation backs Manitoba “inland port”

Sep. 10, 2008 at 9:39 pm CDT

The Manitoba government has introduced a legislative package to set up a company overseeing development of an “inland port” based in northwestern Winnipeg and the neighbouring R.M. of Rosser. CentrePort Canada is to be a private-sector focused corporation that would build on Manitoba’s “well-established” network of air, rail, sea and […]

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Malting barley institute names new chief

Sep. 10, 2008 at 5:58 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board’s former head of malting barley technical services and market development is the new president and CEO of the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute. Michael Brophy was named to the post at the end of August, institute chairman Ed McCallum said Wednesday in a release. The […]

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Feds sued over CWB election spending changes

Sep. 10, 2008 at 5:44 pm CDT

A Prairie farmers’ group says it has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its removal of a spending cap on third-party campaigning in upcoming Canadian Wheat Board director elections. In a release Wednesday, the group Friends of the CWB said it plans to argue in court that the […]

By FBC staff