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Viterra offers shares to staff

Jun. 12, 2008 at 1:09 pm CDT

Grain company Viterra has set up an employee share purchase plan, giving its staff the option to invest in the Regina firm’s common shares. “The board of directors believes this program will more closely align the goals of our employees with the interests of our shareholders” CEO Mayo Schmidt said […]

Tank mix OK for Alta. beans, this year

Jun. 12, 2008 at 12:23 pm CDT

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Viterra posts $33M profit in Q2

Jun. 11, 2008 at 3:32 pm CDT

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Expect even higher earnings: Agrium

Jun. 11, 2008 at 1:42 pm CDT

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Canadian Ag Hall of Famers named

Jun. 11, 2008 at 12:36 pm CDT

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Plan fertilizer purchases to cut risk: report

Jun. 10, 2008 at 11:59 pm CDT

Rising and volatile prices for fertilizers, as well as growing global demand for limited nutrient supplies, will only continue to raise risks for Canadian farmers’ input budgets, according to the George Morris Centre. A new study by the Guelph, Ont.-based ag think tank, commissioned by the Canadian Fertilizer Institute and […]

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Sask., Man. seeding practically done

Jun. 10, 2008 at 11:17 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s farmers have seeded 99 per cent of its 2008 crop, while Manitoba is wrapping up reseeding on frost-damaged fields, the two provinces’ ag departments reported Monday. Fields in both provinces stood to gain from rainfall last week, the provinces said in their weekly crop reports. Southwestern Saskatchewan got the […]

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Man. hog hearings become late, late show

Jun. 10, 2008 at 10:42 pm CDT

Over 300 “frustrated and angry” people remain to speak on Manitoba’s planned moratorium on expansion of hog production after three days of hearings by the legislature’s ag committee, the province’s hog producer group reported Tuesday. The Manitoba Pork Council said in a release that 319 people remain on the speakers’ […]

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Man. WCB urges broader worker coverage

Jun. 10, 2008 at 4:59 pm CDT

Manitoba’s Workers Compensation Board (WCB) supports broadening of mandatory workers’ comp to several sectors where it’s now optional, but has stopped short of recommending farms or any other business be added, the province reported Tuesday. Provincial Labour Minister Nancy Allan said the province accepts the WCB report’s recommendation to broaden […]

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Head office workers reject Viterra offer

Jun. 10, 2008 at 3:51 pm CDT

Members of the Grain Services Union working in grain company Viterra’s Regina head office voted Monday to reject the company’s contract offer and to strike if an agreement can’t be reached. Final results of voting by all of Viterra’s 850-plus GSU member employees are expected by June 20. The GSU’s […]

By FBC staff