Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Former AU CEO joins BDC board

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:17 pm CDT

The federal government has named former Agricore United CEO Brian Hayward to the board of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Hayward is now president of Aldare Resources, the Winnipeg business consulting firm he formed in 2007 after the takeover of AU, then Canada’s largest grain handler, by No. […]

Sask. food centre chief moves to canola

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:24 am CDT

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Ont. dealership fined $100K over worker death

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:11 am CDT

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Hagen renamed B.C. ag minister in shuffle

Jun. 23, 2008 at 6:06 pm CDT

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Canada’s 13th mad cow found in B.C.

Jun. 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm CDT

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Man. pork co-op to shut assembly yard

Jun. 23, 2008 at 4:52 pm CDT

The Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op plans to close its St. Boniface hog assembly yard this Friday after 43 years, as it plans a new location on Winnipeg’s outskirts. And in light of lower operating costs as a result, the co-op said it will lower its marketing fee starting July 7. […]

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N.B. orchards, vineyards get rehab funding

Jun. 23, 2008 at 4:27 pm CDT

Tree fruit and grape growers in New Brunswick will get almost $773,000 in federal and provincial funds to pull up old plants and trees and upgrade to varieties that are more productive, more in demand or both. “These investments will allow tree fruit and grape growers to be responsive to […]

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Don’t turn PKI pigeons loose: Fanciers

Jun. 23, 2008 at 3:39 pm CDT

Farmers in Canada and the U.S. left holding flocks of pigeons after the reported bankruptcy of Pigeon King International shouldn’t just release the birds, a national fanciers’ group urged Monday. Ontario farm media reported last week that farmers in several provinces who had invested in meat pigeons through Waterloo, Ont. […]

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Federal judge unties gag on CWB

Jun. 21, 2008 at 2:24 am CDT

In deciding how or if the Canadian Wheat Board should promote single-desk marketing of Prairie wheat and barley, the buck stops with CWB directors, not with the federal minister responsible, a federal court judge ruled Thursday. Federal Court Justice Roger Hughes of Winnipeg ruled that an October 2006 order-in-council, issued […]

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Ag groups propose bridge over funding gaps

Jun. 21, 2008 at 1:27 am CDT

Leading up to the expected launch of the federal and provincial governments’ latest ag policy framework, several of Canada’s general farm groups have relaunched a proposal for a new program to cover what they say are gaps in that framework. Originally proposed in November 2007, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s […]

By FBC staff