Insights and Stories of FBC staff

BHP buys up all of Sask. potash venture

May. 12, 2008 at 11:22 pm CDT

The Canadian arm of Australian mining firm BHP Billiton has bought up sole ownership of a joint-venture potash project in Saskatchewan. The company on Monday announced a $284 million, $8.15-per-share cash deal to buy Calgary-based Anglo Potash, with which BHP had co-owned 1.8 million acres of potash landholdings in a […]

Canola seeding stalls in dry southern Sask., Man.

May. 12, 2008 at 5:50 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Man. hog farmers campaign against ban

May. 12, 2008 at 5:27 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Crow Rate reformer Arthur Kroeger, 75

May. 12, 2008 at 4:13 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Higher sales offset Lassonde’s fruit costs

May. 9, 2008 at 3:55 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Parks agency faulted for TB-positive cow

May. 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm CDT

Parks Canada isn’t seriously addressing the bovine tuberculosis situation in Riding Mountain National Park’s wildlife and the government’s “selective” culling just isn’t working, Manitoba’s cattle producers say. The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association called on the federal parks department Friday to improve its bovine TB eradication efforts after a beef cow […]

By FBC staff

Sales up, profit down in Ag Growth Q1

May. 9, 2008 at 2:38 pm CDT

Expansion costs bit off more than a 25 per cent jump in sales could cover in the first quarter for Winnipeg grain handling equipment maker Ag Growth. The income trust on Friday reported $1.89 million in net earnings on $35.4 million in sales for its Q1 ending March 31, compared […]

By FBC staff

Former Viterra exec joins CWB board

May. 9, 2008 at 1:49 pm CDT

The federal government has named David Carefoot, Viterra’s former chief financial officer, as one of its appointees to the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) board of directors. Carefoot, of Oakbank, Man., left Viterra in February, when he was replaced by current CFO Rex McLennan. Carefoot had come to the grain company’s […]

By FBC staff

Ag ad agency to boost online presence

May. 9, 2008 at 12:23 pm CDT

Calgary marketing and PR agency AdFarm plans to cast a wider marketing net online to reach North American farmers where they surf. The company, which focuses strictly on clients in North America’s ag, food and rural development sectors, announced Thursday that it’s formed an “exclusive alliance” with Rare Method Interactive […]

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Bovine TB found in Manitoba cow

May. 8, 2008 at 2:10 pm CDT

Neither Manitoba’s “TB-free” status for bovine tuberculosis, nor its beef and cattle export status, will be affected by the finding of a TB-positive beef cow in the province’s northwest. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) offered those assurances in a release Thursday confirming the finding in a five-year-old cow within […]

By FBC staff