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Dow, DuPont pick new married name for agribusiness

Feb. 26, 2018 at 8:29 pm CST

Dow Chemical and DuPont’s combined agriculture chemical and seed businesses will take a new name when they spin off from the merged parent firm next summer. DowDuPont announced Monday the agribusiness, which will include DuPont Crop Protection, DuPont Pioneer and Dow AgroSciences, will rebrand as Corteva Agriscience after its spinoff, […]

Saskatchewan pulls sales tax off farm insurance

Feb. 26, 2018 at 6:09 pm CST

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India, Canada to work up pulse export protocols

Feb. 23, 2018 at 6:47 pm CST

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John Deere announces 30-second oil change system

Feb. 23, 2018 at 9:08 am CST

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Alberta halts ban on B.C. wine

Feb. 23, 2018 at 2:34 am CST

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B.C. plans trade challenge of Alberta’s wine ban

Feb. 20, 2018 at 12:25 pm CST

The Alberta government’s ban on imports of wine from British Columbia is poised to be the first case challenged under the new interprovincial Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). The British Columbia government announced Monday it will formally challenge the Alberta ban through the CFTA dispute settlement process. Alberta Premier Rachel […]

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Väderstad Tempo L 18 planter

Feb. 15, 2018 at 4:30 pm CST

Väderstad recently added an new model to its Tempo L series. The Tempo L 18 – joining previous two Tempo L models, the Tempo L 12 and Tempo L 16 – has 18 row units and is available with 20” row spacing. “Tempo L 18 delivers exceptional planting precision and very high […]

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Simplot to supersize Portage la Prairie fry plant

Feb. 15, 2018 at 8:23 am CST

U.S. agrifood giant J.R. Simplot plans to bulk up its potato processing footprint in southern Manitoba with a $460 million plant expansion. The company and the provincial government on Wednesday announced construction will begin this spring on a 280,000-square foot expansion at its 180,000-square foot french fry processing plant at […]

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Early canola promoter Gordon Graham, 89

Feb. 13, 2018 at 6:38 pm CST

A memorial is to be held in June in Brandon for a Prairie farmer who helped lead the charge on adoption of rapeseed as a crop, as it morphed into today’s canola. Gordon Graham, who farmed near Newdale, Man., about 75 km north of Brandon, died Wednesday at age 89 […]

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All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Feb. 12, 2018 at 8:18 pm CST

The mystery of how six Prairie cattle caught a Mexican strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB) is now expected to remain a mystery indefinitely. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced quarantines have been lifted from all Prairie cattle operations tested during its probe of a bovine TB outbreak beginning […]

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