Insights and Stories of Staff

More Manitoba hogs turn up with PED

Apr. 25, 2014 at 9:15 pm CDT

Another small group of Manitoba hogs has tested positive off-farm for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), this time at an unnamed “high-traffic site” in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast. The office of the provincial chief veterinary officer (CVO) reported Friday that the pigs in this case had been transported from […]

Quebec’s PQ, CAQ name ag critics

Apr. 25, 2014 at 5:18 pm CDT

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Alta. pet food firm to make U.S. play with Kentucky plant

Apr. 24, 2014 at 7:06 pm CDT

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Ex-ag committee chief Paradis named Que. ag minister

Apr. 23, 2014 at 5:19 pm CDT

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CP, CN book higher Q1 grain revenue, smaller grain handle

Apr. 23, 2014 at 6:00 am CDT

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OAC’s Kemptville campus funded for skills training

Apr. 22, 2014 at 5:48 pm CDT

The Ontario government has put up $2 million to extend skills training programs at the Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) soon-to-be-shuttered Kemptville campus for the coming academic year. The province announced the funding Tuesday for the campus to continue to host skills training programs that “support the agricultural sector in eastern […]

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Billiton resumes Sask. potash work at ‘modulated’ pace

Apr. 21, 2014 at 3:19 am CDT

Global mining giant BHP Billiton has resumed excavation work it put on hold late last year at its potash mining project in Saskatchewan — but plans to pace its dig to best meet market demand. The Australian/British company on Wednesday released its operational review for the nine months ending March […]

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Sask. sets up pre-emptive PEDv response fund

Apr. 20, 2014 at 1:19 am CDT

Saskatchewan and its hog industry are setting up a contingency fund against the day porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) arrives in the province. The federal and Saskatchewan governments on Thursday announced $200,000, to be matched by industry association Sask Pork, to offset “costs related to disease containment strategies, welfare issues, enhanced […]

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Maple Leaf’s Hamilton wiener plant now closed

Apr. 20, 2014 at 12:30 am CDT

A wiener processing plant on Maple Leaf Foods’ list of six further-processing facilities tapped for closure in the company’s 2011 “value creation” plan has officially shut its doors. The Toronto meat processing company on Thursday announced its plant on Brockley Road in Hamilton has closed and its production — plus […]

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Winnipeg egg processor to join Post

Apr. 17, 2014 at 9:35 pm CDT

Winnipeg foodservice egg processor MFI Food Canada is poised to become an arm of breakfast giant Post as part of the U.S. company’s biggest-ever takeover deal. Post Holdings, whose brands include cereals such as Honeycomb, Alpha-Bits, Grape-Nuts and (in Canada) Shreddies, plus other cereal, snack and nutrition supplement products, announced […]

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