Insights and Stories of FBC staff

DuPont sells fruit crop herbicide brand

Jan. 18, 2008 at 5:26 pm CST

DuPont’s Group 5 herbicide Sinbar, used in Canada to control grasses in fruit, mint and asparagus crops, has a new U.S. owner. Tessenderlo Kerley (TKI), a Phoenix company that recently began expanding from fertilizers into crop protection, has bought both the terbacil herbicide Sinbar and a diuron product, Zobar, that […]

Viterra posts “record” first-year profit

Jan. 18, 2008 at 5:04 pm CST

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GSU staff approve Viterra pension plan

Jan. 18, 2008 at 2:37 pm CST

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Ont. wheat board rolls out interim payments

Jan. 18, 2008 at 12:31 pm CST

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Prairies’ purple gas banned in Montana

Jan. 17, 2008 at 11:33 pm CST

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Ritz calls CWB, critics to meet on barley

Jan. 17, 2008 at 7:27 pm CST

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has called a Jan. 29 meeting in Ottawa on “the future of the barley industry” between the Canadian Wheat Board and a clutch of “industry groups, producers, grain handlers and malting companies.” Ritz said the meeting will focus on “finding ways to move toward marketing […]

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Sask. to tap communities fund for biofuel work

Jan. 17, 2008 at 4:39 pm CST

Saskatchewan’s provincial government plans to stream some of $36.4 million in expected federal funding toward biofuels and sustainable energy development. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Brad Wall announced Thursday in Prince Albert that Saskatchewan has signed onto the federal government’s proposed Community Development Trust program. The program, which still […]

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Potato growers funded for food safety

Jan. 17, 2008 at 4:06 pm CST

Canada’s potato producers can get new federal funding to pay for technical support, equipment or trips to workshops to boost their on-farm food safety regimes. The Canadian Horticultural Council announced Thursday that its application has been approved for on-farm implementation (OFI) funding for potato producers under the Canadian Food Safety […]

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Ont. offers $14M for deadstock collection, abattoirs

Jan. 17, 2008 at 2:27 pm CST

Ontario’s cattle producers and beef slaughter plants will share $14 million in provincial funding to help pay for deadstock disposal and costs incurred under the pumped-up federal feed ban, respectively. The province’s agriculture ministry on Thursday announced $5 million in interim funding for the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association, to support […]

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CWB targets lower export volume, higher prices

Jan. 16, 2008 at 6:03 pm CST

The Canadian Wheat Board expects to export eight per cent less grain in 2007-08, but aims to sell high before the new crop arrives. The board on Wednesday released its annual Grain Marketing Report, outlining its plans to sell aggressively at current high prices. In the report, CWB chief operating […]

By FBC staff