Insights and Stories of Staff

Deal sealed to save Ont. tomato processing plant

May. 22, 2014 at 6:10 pm CDT

Farmers around Leamington, southwestern Ontario’s tomato-growing capital, will continue to supply tomatoes to the local 105-year-old processing plant under new management. Michael Mullen, senior vice-president of corporate and government affairs for U.S. food processing giant H.J. Heinz, confirmed Tuesday the company has completed its deal to sell the Leamington plant […]

New rules to ease seed potato exports to U.S.

May. 22, 2014 at 4:33 am CDT

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Richardson’s canola crushing expansion now on line

May. 21, 2014 at 10:58 am CDT

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Ardent Mills j.v. clears U.S. antitrust review

May. 21, 2014 at 12:07 am CDT

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Saccharin cleared for use in foods in Canada

May. 20, 2014 at 4:26 am CDT

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N.S. backs apple orchard renewal plan

May. 17, 2014 at 3:59 am CDT

Nova Scotia’s government and apple industry will put up seven figures over the next six years to update over 400 acres of the province’s apple orchards with new varieties. The apple sector will put $6.9 million into the program while the provincial ag department will put up a total of […]

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B.C. plans for PEDv prevention

May. 17, 2014 at 1:52 am CDT

The federal and British Columbia governments are putting up funding for the province’s pork sector to fend off porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) before it arrives there. The two levels of government on Thursday pledged $613,050 from the Growing Forward 2 (GF2) ag policy funding framework for “increased surveillance and preventative […]

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Commons votes down bid for horse slaughter ban

May. 15, 2014 at 8:01 pm CDT

A New Democrat MP’s run at new limits on the country’s horsemeat industry was stopped before the finish line Wednesday in the House of Commons. MPs on Wednesday voted 155 to 102 at second reading against British Columbia MP Alex Atamanenko’s private member’s bill, C-571, which sought amendments to the […]

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Grain company chief George Richardson, 89

May. 15, 2014 at 7:23 pm CDT

Members of the Prairie grain industry’s influential Richardson family are planning a private memorial service for George T. Richardson, who helmed their wide-ranging business interests for 27 years. Richardson, who died Wednesday at age 89, was president of the family firm, James Richardson and Sons, Ltd., from 1966 to 1993, and […]

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Ont. Pork offers partial payments after packer bankruptcy

May. 15, 2014 at 6:25 pm CDT

The marketing division of Ontario Pork has put up money to offer partial reimbursement to hog farmers left unpaid in the wake of Quality Meat Packers’ bankruptcy. The offer, to be funded through the division’s accumulated surplus, applies to farmers who shipped hogs to Quality through the division between March […]

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