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Hort growers’ safety program endorsed

Mar. 26, 2008 at 9:54 pm CDT

The national on-farm food safety program for Canada’s tree and vine fruit growers has passed a government technical review process. The Canadian Horticultural Council said Wednesday that the program it developed has been “officially endorsed” by a team of federal and provincial government experts. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency gave […]

Canola council names corporate VP

Mar. 26, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

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Farm Progress names Viterra as top sponsor

Mar. 26, 2008 at 2:44 pm CDT

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Viterra launches Alta. carbon credit plan

Mar. 26, 2008 at 1:32 pm CDT

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Quebec ag receipts up in 2007: ISQ

Mar. 25, 2008 at 5:18 pm CDT

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Lentil treatment to be sold via UAP

Mar. 25, 2008 at 4:49 pm CDT

Crown, a seed treatment for lentils and chickpeas, will be distributed exclusively by UAP Canada on the Prairies starting in this crop year. Chemtura Crop Protection, the Connecticut company that holds the registration on Crown, and UAP announced the new agreement in a release Tuesday. The fungicide is used to […]

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Marketing funded for dairy test kits

Mar. 25, 2008 at 4:24 pm CDT

A new diagnostic kit to test vitamin A and D content in fortified milk and other dairy products will get almost $1 million in federal funding to help see it through the marketing phase. SciMed Technologies of Edmonton has developed VitaKit A and VitaKit D, which the company says will […]

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Farm groups want review of “runaway” rail costs

Mar. 25, 2008 at 3:15 pm CDT

Pointing to what they say is over $100 million per year in “unreasonably excessive” railway revenue at farmers’ expense, Western Canada’s general farm organizations want Ottawa to conduct a full rail costing review for the first time in 16 years. At a press conference Tuesday just outside Winnipeg, spokesmen for […]

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Beet ethanol proposal may leave P.E.I.: CBC

Mar. 24, 2008 at 3:42 pm CDT

A proposal to make ethanol from Prince Edward Island sugar beets may go elsewhere following a report that suggests it would take up at least all the province’s non-potato cropland, according to CBC. The broadcaster quoted Ron Coles of Atlantec BioEnergy saying the company’s $85 million proposal for the Borden […]

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Canada behind on ag land stewardship: report

Mar. 24, 2008 at 1:35 pm CDT

Current public policy in Canada largely overlooks the wealth of ecological goods and services available in its working farmland, a new report from the Canada West Foundation suggests. The foundation’s report, released Thursday, said other jurisdictions” “relatively new” public policy tools “have the potential to correct this oversight by simultaneously […]

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