Insights and Stories of Staff

Sask. to release southern Crown habitat for sale

May. 15, 2014 at 6:10 am CDT

Updated, May 15 — Over 1.8 million acres of Crown wildlife habitat in southern Saskatchewan may soon be up for sale under a new provincial land management plan. The province on Monday announced what it calls the Southern Conservation Land Management Strategy, which it said will offer ranchers and farmers […]

Former Sask. ag minister won’t run again

May. 14, 2014 at 10:45 am CDT

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N.S. eyes environmental fee for tractor tires

May. 13, 2014 at 6:28 pm CDT

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Bimbo’s Canada Bread takeover gets federal approval

May. 13, 2014 at 5:47 pm CDT

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PEDv found in hogs on second SE Manitoba farm

May. 9, 2014 at 6:03 pm CDT

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Feds won’t back national pullet marketing agency

May. 8, 2014 at 6:35 pm CDT

The federal government has found the case for a national pullet marketing agency “not compelling” enough to grant the wish of a nationwide pullet producers’ group. A spokesperson for federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz confirmed Wednesday that Ritz had reviewed the report and recommendations of the Farm Products Council of […]

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Toronto’s Quality Meat Packers officially bankrupt

May. 7, 2014 at 4:45 pm CDT

One of the last remnants of Toronto’s “Hogtown” past has formally gone bankrupt, in a move expected to permanently close the doors and strip out the assets at Quality Meat Packers and its Toronto Abattoirs arm. The two pork-packing and -processing companies in early April filed a notice of intention […]

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BQ ag critic officially seeking party leadership

May. 6, 2014 at 6:47 pm CDT

Bloc Quebecois MP Andre Bellavance, the party’s ag critic and a former vice-chair of the Commons agriculture committee, is officially in the running for the party’s leadership. Bellavance, 49, a former radio journalist, has been the MP for the riding of Richmond-Arthabaska and the Bloc’s caucus vice-chair since 2004. He’s […]

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Feds’ grain freight legislation heads to Senate

May. 6, 2014 at 1:58 pm CDT

UPDATED, May 30, 2014: The federal government’s legislative package to tighten the terms of grain freight service agreements between shippers and railways has cleared the House of Commons. Bill C-30, the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act, was delayed last Thursday due to an amendment which Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer […]

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Ontario preparing bee loss compensation

May. 6, 2014 at 4:39 am CDT

Application packages are expected to be available late next week for Ontario beekeepers to seek compensation for the past year’s “higher than normal” bee colony death losses. Before Friday’s loss of a confidence motion in the legislature, which sends Ontario voters to the polls June 12, the provincial government on […]

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