Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Nov. 17, 2008 at 6:56 pm CST

A Toronto-area company specializing in organic fertilizers made from worm castings has bought a well-known live bait firm’s worm castings business to boost its own output. Forterra Environmental on Monday announced a $45,000 all-stock deal to buy the WormSense business of Pagonis Live Bait, a Toronto family firm that supplies […]

By FBC staff

Oct. 9, 2008 at 6:44 pm CDT

Weakening feed grain prices, financial market volatility and “bearish supply-side fundamentals” have bit into the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest 2008-09 pool return outlooks (PROs) for barley. The mid-month barley PROs, which the CWB says it’s issuing this year to give farmers more timely price signals, see No. 1 CW feed […]

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Oct. 9, 2008 at 6:16 pm CDT

The United Food and Commercial Workers’ union won’t get automatic certification at an Abbotsford, B.C. fruit and vegetable farm where it claimed the “most vocal” workers were shipped home before a vote could be held. The British Columbia Labour Relations Board, which conducted a union certification vote for UFCW Local […]

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Oct. 9, 2008 at 5:03 pm CDT

Rural communities in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are losing jobs, wages and community leadership as farms’ profit margins drift further into negative numbers, according to a new study on farm economic viability. GPI Atlantic, a Nova Scotia non-profit research group drafting new measures of progress for that province, […]

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Oct. 9, 2008 at 4:23 pm CDT

An Alberta elk herd introduced in central Ontario in 2001 with a provincial pledge for population control has led to “devastation” on local farms, according to local and provincial farmers’ groups. “If something isn’t done soon to solve the elk problem, we will all lose our farms,” Lynn Davis, farmer […]

By FBC staff