Insights and Stories of Staff

PotashCorp to keep N.B. mine running, for now

Jun. 17, 2014 at 6:17 pm CDT

“Ongoing tightness” in the granular potash market will keep a New Brunswick mine staffed and operating past its scheduled closing date. Fertilizer giant PotashCorp announced Monday it has “rescinded” the layoff notices for about 50 employees at its Penobsquis mine at Sussex, N.B. The layoffs had been issued in the wake […]

Bloc ag critic’s leadership bid comes up short

Jun. 16, 2014 at 5:13 pm CDT

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Replacement named for retiring Farm Credit chief

Jun. 16, 2014 at 12:48 pm CDT

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Livestock, grain groups hail step forward on Korea trade deal

Jun. 16, 2014 at 3:20 am CDT

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Anti-spam rules to weigh on all commercial email

Jun. 16, 2014 at 12:56 am CDT

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Ontario voters return ag incumbents in Wynne’s win

Jun. 13, 2014 at 12:37 pm CDT

Ontario’s incumbent agriculture minister and her opposition critics are all headed back to Queen’s Park as voters gave Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals a new majority mandate Thursday night. Wynne, who pledged during her campaign for the Liberal leadership in 2012 to name herself as minister of agriculture for at least […]

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CWB seals Sask. terminal deal on PWT shareholders’ approval

Jun. 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm CDT

The grain company formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board now formally owns an elevator network in western Saskatchewan. CWB announced Monday it has formally completed its friendly takeover of farmer-owned Prairie West Terminal (PWT) after the company’s farmer-owners and other shareholders voted 99.5 per cent in favour of the […]

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Revived Thunder Bay terminal boosts Richardson’s capacity

Jun. 6, 2014 at 9:09 am CDT

Reviving a mothballed port terminal bought from Viterra is expected to more than double Richardson International’s grain handling capacity at Thunder Bay. The Winnipeg grain company took over Viterra’s Current River grain terminal, with storage capacity of 235,000 tonnes, in a side deal last year stemming from Viterra’s takeover by […]

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Quebec poultry co-op to buy P+H’s Butterball business

Jun. 5, 2014 at 2:20 pm CDT

Winnipeg agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker has signed a deal to shed its P+H Foods poultry processing business, which includes the Canadian business for the U.S. turkey brand Butterball. Exceldor, a Levis, Que.-based poultry producers’ processing co-operative, announced Thursday it will expand its market reach across Canada by buying the […]

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Dairytown’s farmers approve merger into Agropur

Jun. 5, 2014 at 3:08 am CDT

New Brunswick butter co-operative Dairytown Products is expected to become part of major Quebec dairy co-op Agropur by month’s end, now that Dairytown’s farmers have approved the deal. The two co-ops announced Wednesday that Dairytown’s “beneficiaries,” the province’s 206 active dairy producers, voted 99 per cent in favour of the […]

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