Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Fungicide approval opens U.S. to treated oats

May. 6, 2008 at 5:02 pm CDT

Canadian oat growers who use Headline fungicide to treat their crops may ship oats south now that U.S. regulators have also approved the product’s use on oats. BASF Canada, which makes Headline, announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently approved Headline’s use on oats. BASF had […]

Que. to plot farm animal health strategy

May. 6, 2008 at 2:03 pm CDT

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Sheep farmers launch bluetongue insurance

May. 6, 2008 at 12:52 am CDT

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Canada tables European free trade deal

May. 6, 2008 at 12:24 am CDT

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Cross-border seed potato standards reworked

May. 6, 2008 at 12:01 am CDT

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Alta. can’t produce lowest-cost pork: report

May. 5, 2008 at 11:30 pm CDT

Alberta can’t, nor should it, try to win a race to the bottom as a low-cost pork supplier, the provincial hog farmers’ board proposes in a new report on the state of the industry. Alberta Pork on Monday released a report, titled The Way Forward, as a discussion document on […]

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Agrium takes over UAP

May. 5, 2008 at 5:04 pm CDT

Fertilizer firm Agrium’s friendly takeover of U.S. ag retailer UAP is nearly complete, with nearly all UAP shares tendered to the Calgary company’s offer. As of its deadline last Friday, about 98.5 per cent of UAP’s outstanding shares had been tendered to Agrium’s $39 per share offer and not withdrawn, […]

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Sask. urges farmers to keep out clubroot

May. 5, 2008 at 4:48 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s ag ministry is calling on canola growers to take the necessary steps to keep clubroot out of the province. In 2007, the province said in a release, nearly 60 canola fields in central Alberta were overcome by clubroot, a disease it described has “harmful and swift-moving.” While not yet […]

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Bevo Agro booking more U.S. business

May. 5, 2008 at 2:55 pm CDT

Working itself out from under a rough 2007, B.C. greenhouse and horticultural plant supply firm Bevo Agro is reporting increased business from U.S. buyers. The Vancouver-area company last fall reported a net loss of almost $280,000 on $19.8 million in sales for its 2007 fiscal year ending June 30, citing […]

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Shippers’ complaint on CN car policy dismissed

May. 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm CDT

Grain shippers won’t get any “emergency relief” against Canadian National Railway’s (CN) car distribution policy, and will have to wait on a broader review of CN’s performance, the Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled. The agency (CTA), in a letter Wednesday to the shippers and CN, agreed with the group of […]

By FBC staff