Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Merger boosts Viterra’s Q3 ledger

Sep. 10, 2008 at 2:22 pm CDT

Strong ag industry fundamentals have put a shine on Viterra’s third-quarter financial results as Canada’s largest grain company passes its first fiscal wedding anniversary. Viterra, which formed in late May 2007 from the merger of top Prairie grain handlers Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United (AU), on Wednesday posted net […]

B.C. launches farm assessment consultations

Sep. 9, 2008 at 5:11 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Railways hail proposed diesel tax cut

Sep. 9, 2008 at 4:52 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Viterra opens office in Singapore

Sep. 9, 2008 at 1:58 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Alta. reorganizes agriculture programming

Sep. 8, 2008 at 6:38 pm CDT

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Rain stalls harvests all across Sask., Man.

Sep. 8, 2008 at 6:18 pm CDT

Wet and cool weather delayed or halted harvest in all areas of Manitoba and Saskatchewan last week, the two provinces said in their weekly crop reports. Just two per cent of Saskatchewan’s 2008 crop was harvested last week, bringing the total up to 22 per cent, well below the 2003-07 […]

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Man. cattle producers vote to dump KAP

Sep. 8, 2008 at 5:21 pm CDT

The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association’s board of directors has voted to pull its membership from the province’s general farm group. MCPA, in this week’s edition of its Cattle Country newsletter, said its directors passed a motion at their September board meeting to withdraw the group’s membership in Keystone Agricultural Producers […]

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Inquiry demanded over mushroom farm deaths

Sep. 7, 2008 at 11:03 pm CDT

A major Canadian food workers’ union wants to see an inquiry into the deaths of three workers Friday in an apparent toxic gas release at a Langley, B.C. mushroom farm. “The (workers’) families, the public, and all agriculture workers need to know what led to this tragedy and how to […]

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FCC to consider farmers’ “integrity” for loans

Sep. 6, 2008 at 10:01 pm CDT

The federal government has acted on a pledge to require Farm Credit Canada to consider the “personal integrity” of people applying for financing from the federal farm lender. FCC was one on a list of five Crown corporations that will now be required to make such considerations, announced Saturday by […]

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Slicers likely source of listeria: Maple Leaf

Sep. 6, 2008 at 8:46 pm CDT

Processors that produce ready-to-eat meats are being asked to take on “aggressive” cleaning of their meat slicing equipment after Maple Leaf Foods found such machines to be the likely source of a serious listeriosis contamination. Federal and provincial health officials have been investigating an increase in cases of listeriosis infections […]

By FBC staff