Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Costs call for higher milk prices now: DFC

Jul. 7, 2008 at 6:01 pm CDT

Rising costs for fuel and other ag inputs make an immediate increase in the price paid for milk at the farm gate urgent for dairy farms to stay solvent, the Dairy Farmers of Canada warned Monday. The DFC recently asked the Canadian Dairy Commission for an immediate increase of 3.5 […]

Viterra names VP for Asia

Jul. 7, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ag ministers prepare to sign new APF

Jul. 7, 2008 at 5:23 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. ditches open for haying July 8

Jul. 7, 2008 at 4:28 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Time to give on supply management: Chamber

Jul. 4, 2008 at 11:51 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Viterra’s GSU staff plan strike

Jul. 4, 2008 at 6:13 pm CDT

Unionized staff in Viterra’s Saskatchewan country operations and head office plan a rotating strike to start Monday, in response to the grain company’s plans for a rotating lockout. Picket lines are to go up around the company’s Victoria Avenue head office in Regina after midnight on July 7, the Grain […]

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OTM rule sent back for comment: report

Jul. 4, 2008 at 5:42 pm CDT

The rule that allows older Canadian cattle to enter the U.S. must be reopened for a public comment period, a U.S. district court judge ruled Thursday, according to a report from financial news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s Edvard Pettersson reported Thursday that U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol found for the protectionist […]

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Yukon names new minister for farms

Jul. 4, 2008 at 5:21 pm CDT

Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie’s cabinet shuffle Thursday puts a new minister in charge of the territory government’s ag file. Lake Laberge MLA Brad Cathers, who until now has been Fentie’s minister for health and social services, takes over from Archie Lang as minister for energy, mines and resources, a portfolio […]

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Lakeside sale cause for relief: GMC

Jul. 4, 2008 at 12:59 am CDT

Canadian cattle feeders can take a bit of assurance that the Lakeside beef plant at Brooks, Alta., will be in “strong hands” after its sale and may even spur new competition for cattle, according to a new report from the George Morris Centre. In a report released Thursday, the Guelph, […]

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Viterra plans “rotating” lockout

Jul. 3, 2008 at 11:54 pm CDT

The Grain Services Union (GSU) is pondering its next move after Canada’s largest grain handler announced a “rotating lockout” of some unionized staff will start Monday. Viterra management announced Wednesday that it has served a legal notice to the GSU for a lockout that does not physically keep workers in […]

By FBC staff