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CFIA testing piglet feed for PEDv infectiveness

Feb. 19, 2014 at 3:27 pm CST

The accepted wisdom about the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), and its ability to survive in hog blood products used in piglet feed, is being tested this week in Winnipeg. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Tuesday it is running tests to see if feed pellets made using hog plasma […]

Ben + Jerry’s to go full non-GMO by mid-year

Feb. 18, 2014 at 5:57 am CST

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Landmark to test feed ingredient for PEDv

Feb. 16, 2014 at 5:45 pm CST

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PEDv suspected on Manitoba hog farm

Feb. 14, 2014 at 6:29 am CST

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Co-op, Overwaitea to buy 29 grocery stores in West

Feb. 13, 2014 at 6:25 pm CST

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Scoular frozen out of Sask. grain handling plan

Feb. 13, 2014 at 4:46 pm CST

A Toronto company building a commodity logistics hub in Saskatchewan’s southeast corner has cut its ties with the U.S. agrifood firm set to bankroll the hub’s planned grain elevator. Toronto’s Ceres Global Ag Corp. announced Thursday it has “terminated its arrangements” with The Scoular Co. and will instead bring the […]

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New standard to define icewine in Canada

Feb. 13, 2014 at 8:07 am CST

If it’s not made only with grapes naturally frozen on the vine, it can’t be called icewine. As obvious as it may seem, a new move to enshrine that notion in the federal Agricultural Products Act is expected to ease and boost exports of Canada’s most lucrative wines and weed […]

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Mexican bakery giant to buy Canada Bread

Feb. 12, 2014 at 4:08 pm CST

The reported frontrunner to buy Canada Bread is now officially the Canadian bakery firm’s buyer of choice. Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo on Wednesday announced a cash deal to buy all shares of Canada Bread Co. for $72 per share, or about $1.83 billion, accruing mainly to Canada Bread’s 90 per cent […]

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Flaherty’s budget to expand livestock tax deferrals to bees

Feb. 11, 2014 at 6:56 pm CST

Plans to bring beekeepers in on income deferrals available to certain livestock breeders, and to further expand rural broadband, are among the pre-Valentine’s Day candies for farmers in Tuesday’s federal budget. Federal budgets in recent years have been relatively light on line items meant directly for farmers, as ag program […]

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Feed firm purging hog-based ingredients over PED risk

Feb. 10, 2014 at 6:11 pm CST

A southern Ontario feed processor wants customers to stop feeding its nursery feeds to young hogs, over concerns that feeds made with hog-based ingredients can be a “potential vector” for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv). PEDv, a contagious disease leading to death rates of up to 100 per cent […]

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