Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Ex-Sask. ag deputy heads north

May. 21, 2008 at 12:05 pm CDT

A former top agriculture bureaucrat in the Saskatchewan government will take up a new deputy minister’s post this summer in the Yukon. Harvey Brooks, who was Saskatchewan’s deputy minister of agriculture until November 2007, will become the Yukon government’s deputy minister of economic development, effective July 17. Brooks “has experience […]

Ritz rips draft WTO text over SM goods

May. 21, 2008 at 1:47 am CDT

By FBC staff

Winds a setback in Man., Sask.

May. 21, 2008 at 1:27 am CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. to back shortline rail improvements

May. 20, 2008 at 5:51 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Diageo to buy Constellation’s Que. distillery

May. 20, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I. fund to support ag, rural jobs

May. 20, 2008 at 4:53 pm CDT

The Prince Edward Island government has put up $1.25 million over three years to help rural businesses and agencies hire additional staff, including businesses in ag-related processing. The rural jobs initiative, announced Tuesday, is aimed at the creation of jobs in support of innovation, technological adaptation and sustainable diversification, Rural […]

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Que. research eyes veg oil in transformers

May. 20, 2008 at 4:41 pm CDT

The Quebec government will put up $430,000 for research on the use of both vegetable and animal oils as insulators in electrical transformers. The provincial agriculture ministry (MAPAQ) said Friday it will put up $180,000 over two years for related work at Oleotek, a research and technology transfer firm at […]

By FBC staff

2,4-D passes PMRA re-evaluation

May. 20, 2008 at 4:19 pm CDT

Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) will allow continued registration of the Group 4 herbicide 2,4-D with only minor changes to the chemical’s label. The agency had taken on a long-term re-evaluation of the product — the use of which on Canadian farms dates back to 1946 — and […]

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Former FCC CEO joins Rabo AgriFinance

May. 20, 2008 at 3:20 am CDT

Former Farm Credit Canada CEO John Ryan has been named CEO of Rabobank International’s U.S. ag lending arm. Ryan will assume the post of president and CEO of Rabo AgriFinance on Oct. 1, replacing Rick Henderson, who announced his plans to retire earlier this year. Ryan was CEO of FCC […]

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Premium Brands CEO Fred Knoedler, 62

May. 20, 2008 at 3:05 am CDT

Fred Knoedler, who as CEO of what’s now Premium Brands oversaw the company’s move out of meat packing and into specialty foods, died last week of cancer in White Rock, B.C. Knoedler, whose profile at BusinessWeek magazine’s website listed his age as 62, had worked for Vancouver-based Premium Brands Income […]

By FBC staff