Insights and Stories of FBC staff

On-farm biodiesel research plant funded

Jun. 21, 2008 at 12:55 am CDT

Designed for research, a farm-scale oilseed processing and biodiesel plant at the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown campus has picked up almost $940,000 in federal funding. Dave Van Kesteren, a southern Ontario MP, announced $938,260 in federal funding Friday for the facility, which will be operated in partnership with local soybean […]

Sask. workers reject Viterra offer: GSU

Jun. 20, 2008 at 5:21 pm CDT

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Saskferco for sale

Jun. 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm CDT

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Egypt thwarts Agrium fertilizer venture

Jun. 20, 2008 at 4:29 pm CDT

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CWB program to offer delivery period options

Jun. 19, 2008 at 12:57 pm CDT

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Sask. Stock Growers endorse single group

Jun. 18, 2008 at 5:54 pm CDT

Members of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association will support the idea of a new umbrella group to represent Saskatchewan cattle producers. A resolution to support such a group, to be called the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, got approval from SSGA members at the group’s annual meeting, which wrapped up Tuesday in […]

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Get ahead of anthrax exposure: CFIA

Jun. 18, 2008 at 3:47 pm CDT

Last winter’s snowfall and wet conditions in parts of the Prairies may lead to exposed anthrax spores on pasture land, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned Wednesday. CFIA has already confirmed its first cases of anthrax this spring on a farm in the Rural Municipality of King George, southeast of […]

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Growmark fined for worker injury on conveyor

Jun. 18, 2008 at 3:17 pm CDT

Injuries to a worker whose arm was pulled into a moving conveyor belt at a fertilizer storage site will cost ag co-op Growmark $80,000, an Ontario court ruled Tuesday. The fine was levied Tuesday in a provincial court in Brockville, relating to a November 2006 incident at the storage facility […]

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Potash One moves to TSX

Jun. 18, 2008 at 2:29 pm CDT

Potash One, a Vancouver firm with potash permits in southern Saskatchewan, has moved from the TSX Venture Exchange to the TSX, under the symbol KCL. The company, whose 52-week low on the TSXV was 80 cents, began trading on the TSX Wednesday and was trading at $5.54 per share that […]

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CWB launches online weather centre

Jun. 18, 2008 at 1:45 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board’s partnership with U.S. weather data firm WeatherBug has gone to the next step with the launch of a new online weather centre for Prairie farmers. The new weather centre, launched Wednesday at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina, gives subscribing farmers the ability to […]

By FBC staff