Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Norwegian fertilizer firm to buy Saskferco

Jul. 14, 2008 at 11:05 pm CDT

Norwegian fertilizer and chemical company Yara International has signed on to buy nitrogen manufacturer Saskferco for $1.6 billion, the Saskatchewan company’s owners announced Monday. Saskferco’s joint owners, Minnesota-based potash and phosphate firm Mosaic and Investment Saskatchewan, a provincial Crown investment company, will sell their stakes pending federal regulatory approval in […]

Quebec to flow culled pork to food banks

Jul. 14, 2008 at 5:31 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Rain improves Sask. crops, soaks Manitoba

Jul. 14, 2008 at 4:53 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Funds on tap for N.B. maple sugar stands

Jul. 14, 2008 at 1:46 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Aleutian disease funds in for Nfld. ranchers

Jul. 11, 2008 at 3:36 pm CDT

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Provinces, Ottawa complete $1.3B ag framework

Jul. 11, 2008 at 1:28 pm CDT

Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ag ministers have officially completed their multilateral Growing Forward farm policy framework, committing $1.3 billion in cost-shared funding over the next five years. Split 60/40 between Ottawa and the provinces, the $1.3 billion covers programming other than for farm business risk management (BRM), and is […]

By FBC staff

Sask. Ag probes “financial irregularity”

Jul. 11, 2008 at 12:43 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry has fired an employee and called in the RCMP as it investigates a $20,000 “financial irregularity.” The ministry gave few details in a statement Thursday, other than to say one employee had been dismissed and preliminary results of its own internal investigation show the estimated total amount […]

By FBC staff

CWB initials raised on 2007-08 wheat

Jul. 10, 2008 at 6:49 pm CDT

Initial payments for 2007-08 Prairie wheat will be raised by $22 per tonne, the Canadian Wheat Board announced Thursday. For example, the increase would boost the initial payment for No. 1 Canada Western Red Spring wheat, 12.5, from $325.10 per tonne to $347.10 per tonne. The May 2007-08 PRO for […]

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WTO text shows “wide gaps” in talks: Ritz

Jul. 10, 2008 at 4:07 pm CDT

A new draft modalities text on agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) lays bare “wide gaps” separating countries’ positions at the talks, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Thursday. The draft text released Thursday by Crawford Falconer, chair of the WTO ag talks, is an outline of his assessment […]

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Corn, soy growers seek clarity from McGuinty

Jul. 10, 2008 at 3:33 pm CDT

Come again? Reports that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty may back off a pledge to require 10 per cent ethanol in gasoline by 2010 have Ontario’s corn and soybean growers looking for clarification. “It’s disconcerting that the Premier’s office is buckling under media pressure suggesting Ontario’s small ethanol industry is the […]

By FBC staff