Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Demand spurs record Q1 for Agrium

May. 2, 2008 at 1:57 pm CDT

Fertilizer firm Agrium, riding the rise in demand due to high crop prices, has posted a record US$195 million net profit for what’s usually a “seasonally slow” first quarter. The Calgary company’s Q1 earnings, released Friday, were made on $1.1 billion in sales (all figures US$), compared to a net […]

Untying food aid may short farmers: NFU

May. 2, 2008 at 1:16 pm CDT

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Prairie bee expert Cam Jay, 79

May. 2, 2008 at 12:32 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I. launches commission on farming’s future

May. 2, 2008 at 1:08 am CDT

By FBC staff

Agrium’s UAP bid clears U.S. regulators

May. 2, 2008 at 12:28 am CDT

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SW Sask. program focuses on secure water supply

May. 1, 2008 at 3:37 pm CDT

A new water infrastructure program for farmers and ranchers in Saskatchewan’s dry southwest will focus on cutting the impact of drought by securing water supplies for the future. The $6 million program, pledged in the provincial budget in March, will include three prongs: emergency short-term supply, permanent on-farm supply and […]

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Lakeside losses bite into Tyson’s Q2

May. 1, 2008 at 3:22 pm CDT

Higher operating costs and losses at its Lakeside Packers plant at Brooks, Alta., have hit U.S. meat packer Tyson Foods in its second-quarter results, the company reported Monday. The company said in its report for the second quarter ending March 29 that its operating results for Q2 and for the […]

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Que. moves on new terms for farm supports

May. 1, 2008 at 3:02 pm CDT

Quebec’s provincial cabinet has tapped Deputy Ag Minister Michel Saint-Pierre as the government’s point man on reworking income security programming for Quebec farmers. Saint-Pierre was appointed Thursday as associate general secretary to the provincial executive council, effective May 17. His mandate, the province said, will also involve concluding a new […]

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Sow cull already halfway to goal: CPC

May. 1, 2008 at 1:36 am CDT

Two weeks after opening for business, the federal cull breeding swine program has had enough uptake to get it over halfway to its target. The Canadian Pork Council, which is administering the cull on behalf of the federal government, said Wednesday that over 75,000 breeding animals were committed to the […]

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Viterra names new chairman

May. 1, 2008 at 1:20 am CDT

Montreal banker Thomas Birks has been elected the new chairman of the board at Canada’s largest grain company. Birks joined the board of what was then Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 2005, before the Regina company’s merger last year with its larger rival Agricore United under the name Viterra. He is […]

By FBC staff