Insights and Stories of Staff

Farm groups hail field-levelling trade deal with Korea

Mar. 11, 2014 at 1:32 pm CDT

Negotiations are officially completed and terms finalized on a free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea, with a long line of enthusiastic Canadian farm export sectors in their wake. A trade pact between the two countries has been in the works since they agreed to formal talks in 2005, […]

CN, CP cut producer car sites

Mar. 11, 2014 at 8:28 am CDT

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Railways expect to meet government’s order on grain

Mar. 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm CST

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Lallemand buys into BioBoost crop growth promoters

Mar. 7, 2014 at 3:54 pm CST

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Ottawa slaps Prairie grain volume quotas on railways

Mar. 7, 2014 at 12:13 pm CST

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More grain cars now would be ‘wrong thing,’ CP CEO says

Mar. 6, 2014 at 7:31 pm CST

Canadian Pacific Railway’s CEO has warned readers of Canada’s two national newspapers that adding more rail cars and locomotives now on CP track would serve only to worsen the grain backlog on the Prairies. Writing in full-page CP advertisements in Thursday’s Globe and Mail and National Post, Hunter Harrison said […]

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BMO to cut Prairie farmers slack on loans

Mar. 6, 2014 at 6:21 pm CST

BMO Bank of Montreal plans to offer Prairie farmers a “relief program” including options for loan payment deferrals and other breaks in view of the ongoing grain handling backlog. “We want to provide immediate support to any grain producers and other related businesses that may be experiencing cash flow disruptions […]

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Hog code calls for group sow housing, pain control for piglets

Mar. 6, 2014 at 3:40 pm CST

Animal welfare advocates call Canada’s new code of practice for the care and handling of pigs — which commits farmers who follow it to adopt group housing for sows in any new barns built after July this year — a “watershed moment” for the industry. The revised code, replacing the […]

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Lethbridge Inland Terminal sale clears regulators

Mar. 5, 2014 at 3:55 pm CST

Federal regulators have cleared the road for Viterra to complete its takeover of southern Alberta’s farmer-owned Lethbridge Inland Terminal. Regina-based Viterra, the Canadian grain handling arm of Swiss commodity giant Glencore Xstrata, announced Friday it has now picked up “all pertinent shareholder and regulatory approvals” to buy LIT for an […]

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Cereal, pulse treatment cleared for on-farm application

Mar. 5, 2014 at 3:16 pm CST

Cereal and pulse crop growers have been cleared for on-farm application of one of Syngenta’s neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments, for control of pests such as wireworm and pea leaf weevil. Syngenta Canada last week announced it had picked up federal registration for on-farm application of its Cruiser 5FS seed treatment […]

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