Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Price volatility may affect payment recovery: CGC

Aug. 13, 2008 at 3:25 pm CDT

Continued volatility in grain prices may lead to farmers not getting paid full value for grain delivered to licensed companies that go out of business, the Canadian Grain Commission warned Wednesday. The warning came along with the CGC’s announcement that 15 farmers who submitted claims against security posted by Alexander […]

Chicken farmers’ food safety plan moves ahead

Aug. 13, 2008 at 3:01 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Study of B.C. dairy manure for fertilizer funded

Aug. 13, 2008 at 2:37 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Scare helps boost hothouse tomato firm’s Q2

Aug. 13, 2008 at 2:14 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Editors’ Picks: Eat kangaroos, save world

Aug. 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Federal rail service review rolls ahead

Aug. 12, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

The federal government’s promised review of Canadian rail freight service has taken a step forward with the final terms of reference released and a request for proposals issued for some of the work ahead. “The fact that we are moving forward with this review is good news for shippers of […]

By FBC staff

Sask., Man. winter wheat harvests underway

Aug. 12, 2008 at 2:54 pm CDT

Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are underway in much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to those provinces’ weekly crop reports filed Monday. Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry reports fall rye and winter wheat are six per cent harvested, with pea crops seven per cent harvested and one per cent of lentils […]

By FBC staff

Two cattle die of anthrax in Sask.

Aug. 12, 2008 at 12:53 pm CDT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed two more fatal cases of anthrax in cattle in two different communities in Saskatchewan. The most recent case was confirmed Monday in the Rural Municipality of Big River, about 130 km northwest of Prince Albert. CFIA also confirmed a case on Saturday in […]

By FBC staff

Scotiabank launches new ag financing products

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

Scotiabank has launched a new farm credit suite and new farm banking package for Canadian farmers that it says will help them respond more quickly to shifting markets and opportunities. Scotia Flex for agriculture, announced Monday, provides farming and agribusiness customers with the ability to customize their farm credit needs […]

By FBC staff

Man. farmers’ group to buy CPR track

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

Farmer-owned Boundary Trail Railway Co. Inc. has reached a deal with Canadian Pacific Railway to keep almost 40 km of CPR track in southern Manitoba from being torn up for scrap. The 37.4 km involved had been part of CPR’s La Riviere subdivision, from Binney Corner (near St. Leon, about […]

By FBC staff