Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Express SG picks up more pre-seed burnoffs

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:00 pm CST

DuPont Canada now has regulators’ approval for Prairie farmers to use its Group 2 broadleaf herbicide Express SG, tank-mixed with glyphosate, for burnoff before seeding oats, winter wheat or canaryseed. Express SG, a soluble granule form of tribenuron methyl, is marketed as a booster for glyphosate products, such as Monsanto’s […]

Man. research to boost forage feeding funded

Feb. 22, 2008 at 2:22 pm CST

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Cost-cutting boosts Maple Leaf’s 2007 ledger

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:55 pm CST

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Opposition politicians rally around single desk

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:28 pm CST

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Man. offers hog loans, cattle loan deferrals

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:13 am CST

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Ont. drafts rules for Greenbelt expansion proposals

Feb. 22, 2008 at 2:25 am CST

The Ontario government wants residents’ thoughts on how it should consider requests to expand the boundaries of the province’s Greenbelt and further protect countryside. The province said Thursday it’s developed draft criteria that, once finalized, would be used to consider requests from regional, county and single-tier governments to expand the […]

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Farm products council gets new vice-chair

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:41 am CST

Valcartier, Que. turkey farmer Brent Montgomery has been appointed the new vice-chairperson of the national council supervising supply management for poultry and eggs. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced Montgomery’s appointment to the National Farm Products Council on Wednesday, for a term running to April 29, 2011. Montgomery, the mayor […]

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Pulse Canada shipping strategy gets $600K

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:05 am CST

The federal government has pledged a $600,000 contribution to the pulse crop industry’s new strategy to improve domestic transportation for its product. Pulse Canada’s transportation strategy “will allow stakeholders to work together and with government to identify and resolve transportation issues for the pulse and special crops industry,” the government […]

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Vineland hort centre sets up advisory group

Feb. 22, 2008 at 12:52 am CST

Ontario’s Vineland Research and Innovation Centre for horticulture has set up a new stakeholder advisory committee to help keep the centre connected to stakeholders, producers and outside experts’ advice. The not-for-profit centre in Ontario’s Niagara region announced the new advisory committee Thursday as the first of three it plans to […]

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SSCA names new president

Feb. 22, 2008 at 12:31 am CST

Laura Reiter of Radisson has been elected the new president of the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association. Reiter, a director with the non-profit producer organization since 2004 and most recently its first vice-president, was its first-ever female director, and thus its first female president, following a vote at the group’s recent […]

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