Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Quebec offers $17.5M for PMWS-affected hog farms

Dec. 20, 2007 at 4:31 pm CST

Quebec’s provincial government will offer an ad-hoc aid package of over $17.5 million for hog farmers whose herds were hit by post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). Payment details for the aid package, announced Thursday by Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard, are expected to be finalized in January. La Financiere agricole, the […]

Ottawa to invest $5M in Bioniche

Dec. 20, 2007 at 3:22 pm CST

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Interest deferral extended on CAIS overpayments

Dec. 20, 2007 at 2:59 pm CST

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Ont. soybean growers want back at merger table

Dec. 19, 2007 at 7:40 pm CST

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Aleutian disease spreads to Nfld. wild mink

Dec. 19, 2007 at 6:06 pm CST

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Quebec boosts crop health enforcement powers

Dec. 19, 2007 at 5:09 pm CST

Quebec’s provincial government is moving to grant itself powers to set up “protected crop zones” and inspect, seize or confiscate as needed to enforce them. Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard introduced the new provincial Crop Health Protection Act on Friday, replacing the earlier Plant Protection Act and previous laws on disease […]

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Food makers’ margins rise, retailers’ fall: review

Dec. 19, 2007 at 4:00 pm CST

The Wal-Mart effect has hit Canada’s grocery store industry, pressuring prices in supermarkets even as Canadian food manufacturers’ margins show steady improvement, according to a year-end review by the George Morris Centre. The agricultural industry think-tank, based in Guelph, Ont., on Tuesday posted its year-end review of Canada’s food industry, […]

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McCain plans potato plant in U.S. northwest

Dec. 19, 2007 at 3:10 pm CST

Frozen food giant McCain Foods plans to build a $150 million processing plant in the U.S. Pacific northwest, but won’t yet say where or how big. The New Brunswick-based company issued a release Wednesday saying its facility would be designed to make French fries and potato specialties mostly for food […]

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Sask. poultry farmers press for flu cleanup funds

Dec. 19, 2007 at 12:53 pm CST

The cost burden for cleaning up poultry farms after outbreaks of avian flu shouldn’t be left to affected farmers alone, Saskatchewan’s poultry groups said Tuesday. The poultry groups, pooling their resources under the banner of the Saskatchewan Poultry Industry Emergency Management Team (SPIEMT), said Tuesday that they had raised $100,000 […]

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Cargill to shut NW Sask. elevator

Dec. 19, 2007 at 12:16 pm CST

Cargill plans to close its grain elevator and farm service centre at Cut Knife, Sask., effective Dec. 31. Services offered to Cargill customers at Cut Knife (about 60 km west of North Battleford) are to be transferred to three “regional” Cargill facilities: its expanded operation at North Battleford, its ag […]

By FBC staff