Insights and Stories of Staff

Manitoba hog farm ‘not truly’ PED-infected

Oct. 9, 2014 at 7:31 pm CDT

A hog nursery/finisher operation ruled to be Manitoba’s fifth case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is now proven to have been PED-negative all along. The province’s chief veterinary office (CVO) reported Thursday that the site has now been taken off the list of confirmed on-farm cases of PED in Manitoba. […]

Former N.B. fisheries minister now also ag minister

Oct. 7, 2014 at 5:24 pm CDT

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FBC earns seven Canadian Farm Writers’ awards

Oct. 7, 2014 at 1:44 pm CDT

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CTA rejects Canola Growers’ rail service complaint as vague

Oct. 7, 2014 at 4:13 am CDT

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Soy industry group taps Canola Council exec as chief

Oct. 6, 2014 at 7:14 pm CDT

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Sun Media set to sell Ontario Farmer

Oct. 6, 2014 at 3:07 pm CDT

Long-running weekly ag journal Ontario Farmer is among the titles on the block in Sun Media’s planned sell-off of its English-language Canadian newspapers. Sun Media, Canada’s biggest newspaper publisher and an arm of Montreal media and telecom giant Quebecor, announced Monday it plans to sell all 175 of its English-language daily and weekly […]

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CWB plans Red River Valley grain elevator

Oct. 3, 2014 at 2:34 pm CDT

The grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board has laid out plans for a fourth Prairie elevator — this time much closer to home. Winnipeg-based CWB on Friday announced it has picked a site half a mile south of Glenlea, Man., or about 10 km south of Winnipeg […]

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Dow Agro to offer Nexera as ‘commodity’ canola

Oct. 2, 2014 at 7:15 pm CDT

Growers of Dow AgroSciences’ identity-preserved Nexera hybrid canola may be able to grow it off-contract next spring and drop it into the regular commodity market, through a new deal on offer from the seed and ag chem company. Dow on Thursday launched what it calls the Flexibility Agreement, which, unlike […]

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PED strikes again in SE Manitoba

Oct. 1, 2014 at 6:25 pm CDT

Manitoba has now booked its fifth hog farm with cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). The provincial chief veterinary officer (CVO) on Tuesday confirmed the case in a nursery finisher barn in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast. While the CVO didn’t give the farm’s exact location, the property is outside a […]

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Prairie pulse processor rebrands

Oct. 1, 2014 at 3:12 pm CDT

In the tradition of companies such as 3M and AT+T, Regina-based Alliance Grain Traders has taken its abbreviation as its new name. The company announced Wednesday it has formally completed its name change to AGT Food and Ingredients Inc., as per a resolution at the company’s annual meeting in June. […]

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