Insights and Stories of Staff

Evolution causes cattle to lose three toes

Jul. 16, 2014 at 3:44 pm CDT

Scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland say they have identified a gene regulatory switch that has led to cattle losing three toes. In a release on their study published in the journal Nature this week, the scientists say the fossil record shows that the first primitive even-toed ungulates […]

U.S. officials call foul over Canada’s ‘pizza kit’ clampdown

Jul. 16, 2014 at 12:58 pm CDT

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Soy gene discovery could lead to ‘Goldilocks’ northern varieties

Jul. 15, 2014 at 2:11 pm CDT

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Local bees survive better than imports: Danish scientists

Jul. 15, 2014 at 1:59 pm CDT

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Feds fund honeybee surveillance project

Jul. 15, 2014 at 1:17 pm CDT

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Ont. Tories’ former ag critic returns to post

Jul. 15, 2014 at 6:19 am CDT

Ontario’s provincial Progressive Conservatives have brought back a former agriculture critic in a shuffle of their shadow cabinet as the legislature returns to work. Toby Barrett, the MPP for Haldimand-Norfolk since 1995 and Tory ag critic from 2005 to early 2008, has been renamed as critic for agriculture, food and […]

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Agropur to take over N.B.’s Northumberland dairy co-op

Jul. 14, 2014 at 1:54 pm CDT

The dairy arm of New Brunswick’s Northumberland Dairy Co-operative is poised to become part of dairy co-op giant Agropur. Agropur on Monday announced it has an agreement in place with Northumberland to take over the Miramichi, N.B.-based co-operative’s dairy processing and food distribution business, leaving Northumberland with its hardware and […]

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Stay of default granted on Prairie growers’ cash advances

Jul. 10, 2014 at 5:38 pm CDT

Given the obstacles against shipping Prairie grain since last fall, Prairie crop growers who took out federally-backed cash advances last year now have more time to repay them. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Thursday announced a six-month stay of default on repayment of advances, for any producers who got […]

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Agropur to buy Safeway dairy plants in West

Jul. 8, 2014 at 6:38 pm CDT

Dairy co-operative giant Agropur is set to build its milk muscle in Western Canada with a $356 million play for Sobeys’ former Canada Safeway milk processing plants. Quebec-based Agropur and Nova Scotia-based Sobeys on Tuesday announced a “strategic partnership” agreement in which Agropur will buy the four plants, supply Canada’s […]

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Lenders offer breaks in flood-impacted Prairie areas

Jul. 8, 2014 at 12:05 pm CDT

Farmers and others hit by widespread summer flooding in western Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan may be able to seek deferrals on payments to lenders. Some Prairie lenders, while pledging financial support to flood relief in the region, have also pledged to work with affected farmers and other customers to ease […]

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