Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Bayer to join WeatherBug’s Prairie network

Apr. 3, 2008 at 12:46 pm CDT

Bayer CropScience plans to bring its farmer customers, retail outlets and business partners into WeatherBug’s network of local weather monitoring stations across the Canadian Prairies. WeatherBug, a U.S. weather monitoring firm, announced in August last year that it would work with the Canadian Wheat Board and JRI’s Prairie grain handling […]

Ont. growers’ groups back on merger track

Apr. 3, 2008 at 11:56 am CDT

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Smoky diesel trucks in B.C. face fines

Apr. 3, 2008 at 12:03 am CDT

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N.B., Yukon approve APF extensions

Apr. 2, 2008 at 11:43 pm CDT

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Alta. pledges $85M for southern irrigation

Apr. 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm CDT

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Beef packer Gencor Foods shuts doors

Apr. 2, 2008 at 4:10 pm CDT

Citing new federal regulations that made it uncompetitive, cull cow packer Gencor Foods (GFI) has shut down its Kitchener, Ont. plant effective Tuesday, laid off its 124 workers and announced plans to file for bankruptcy. GFI, a subsidiary of Ontario’s producer-owned livestock genetics company Gencor, formed three years ago to […]

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Lorox L cleared for use in herb crops

Apr. 2, 2008 at 3:27 pm CDT

Growers of coriander, caraway and dill can now use DuPont Canada’s Group 7 herbicide Lorox L on several broadleaf weeds as well as some grasses such as green foxtail. The company has picked up the added registration on its linuron herbicide brand, which DuPont described as a “mainstay” of the […]

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Program caps led Stomp into protection: SaskPork

Apr. 2, 2008 at 3:03 pm CDT

Limits on ag support payments to larger producers have led “directly” to Saskatchewan’s second largest pork producer filing for bankruptcy protection, according to the provincial pork development board. SaskPork said in a release Wednesday that Stomp Pork Farms (SPF) filed to buy time to develop a new plan and restructure […]

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Yellow mustard beats weeds hardest in study

Apr. 1, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

Yellow mustard, compared and contrasted against other canola and mustard types in a recent Prairie study, comes out on top in terms of suppressing weed growth around it. But the message farmers should take from this three-year plot study, done by federal ag department researchers at sites in Saskatchewan and […]

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Nominees wanted for “Seed of the Year”

Apr. 1, 2008 at 4:16 pm CDT

SeCan and the University of Guelph want nominations for Seed of the Year, a competition designed to recognize a publicly developed Canadian field crop, forage, fruit, vegetable or herb variety that has made a significant contribution to the agri-food industry. Two separate awards will be given, one for Eastern Canada, […]

By FBC staff