Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Quebec pledges $15M for food innovation

Mar. 17, 2008 at 6:00 pm CDT

The Quebec government will put up $15 million over five years for a competitiveness and innovation program for the province’s agri-food sector. The funding, announced Saturday by Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard at the annual meeting of the province’s food processors’ council (CTAC), is meant to support processors’ research and development […]

Funding eyed for Sask. cellulosic ethanol plant

Mar. 15, 2008 at 11:08 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Que. ag minister orders pork industry meeting

Mar. 14, 2008 at 5:50 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Soybean inoculants approved for West

Mar. 14, 2008 at 5:01 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Agropur buys Lamothe dairy

Mar. 14, 2008 at 4:46 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Agrium extends UAP offer, again

Mar. 14, 2008 at 3:10 pm CDT

Fertilizer firm Agrium has extended its offer to buy U.S. ag retailer UAP for a fourth time while it works toward approval from U.S. antitrust regulators. The US$39-per-share offer, which was most recently extended to March 14, will now be open until midnight (ET), April 30, during which time the […]

By FBC staff

P.E.I.’s FoodTrust up for sale

Mar. 14, 2008 at 1:41 pm CDT

FoodTrust, a non-profit, Crown-owned marketer of Prince Edward Island potatoes and blueberries, is for sale, the province announced Friday. The P.E.I. government, which established FoodTrust in 2001, has put out an invitation for “expressions of interest” from the private sector through accounting firm Grant Thornton. FoodTrust delivers bulk P.E.I. potatoes […]

By FBC staff

Biotech safflower moves toward new food market

Mar. 14, 2008 at 1:26 pm CDT

A Calgary plant biotech company’s safflowers, already heading toward use as potential factories for new drugs, are part of a new marketing deal for their use in making food supplements. SemBioSys Genetics has previously modified its safflower lines to produce human insulin and a next-generation cardiovascular drug with a goal […]

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Sask. hog farmers get new AgriStability TAP

Mar. 14, 2008 at 12:25 am CDT

Hog farmers in Saskatchewan will be offered early access to their expected 2008 AgriStability payout under a Targeted Advance Payment (TAP) program announced Thursday. Eligible producers will be contacted “soon” with information on the amounts of their advances and how to receive those payments, the federal agriculture department said in […]

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B.C. tightens rules for farm labour contractors

Mar. 13, 2008 at 5:55 pm CDT

Contractors who provide workers for British Columbia farms could lose their licenses for safety violations under legislation introduced Thursday. Labour Minister Olga Ilich on Thursday introduced amendments to the provincial Employment Standards Act which provide for a farm labour contractor’s license to be cancelled or suspended for violations of WorkSafeBC […]

By FBC staff