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HyLife co-founder Paul Vielfaure, 59

Nov. 30, 2017 at 3:25 pm CST

Funeral arrangements are pending for one of the founding brothers behind Prairie hog production and pork processing firm HyLife. Paul Vielfaure died suddenly Nov. 23 at age 59, his family reported in a brief obituary in Winnipeg and Steinbach newspapers this week. Radio-Canada reported Tuesday that Vielfaure had died in […]

Canadian pork cleared for Argentina

Nov. 29, 2017 at 8:05 pm CST

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Ontario to back baby formula plant

Nov. 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm CST

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Ontario vegetable grower to lead NFU

Nov. 27, 2017 at 6:58 pm CST

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Climate Corp. to partner with Canadian drone data firm

Nov. 27, 2017 at 5:53 pm CST

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Federal programs set for Growing Forward sequel

Nov. 24, 2017 at 7:34 pm CST

Market development, product development and overall sector development are among the priorities in the federal government’s five-year funding plan for the ag sector. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, speaking Friday at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, announced a $1 billion suite of six federally funded programs to roll out through the […]

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Data mining finds no honeybee colony risk from correct neonic use

Nov. 23, 2017 at 7:43 pm CST

An expedition through published and unpublished studies on neonicotinoid pesticides has led a Guelph research team to find no colony-level risk to honeybees from the seed treatments — if they’re correctly used. The University of Guelph team, led by toxicologist Keith Solomon and adjunct professor Gladys Stephenson, analyzed 64 papers […]

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New Brunswick deputy ag minister retiring

Nov. 23, 2017 at 6:33 pm CST

New Brunswick’s assistant deputy minister for agriculture will act as the lead bureaucrat for agriculture in the province after the current deputy retires. Premier Brian Gallant on Wednesday named Cathy LaRochelle, assistant deputy minister for both the provincial department of agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries and the department of energy and […]

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P+H plans new east-central Alberta elevator

Nov. 21, 2017 at 4:20 pm CST

Winnipeg grain and agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker is set to reinforce its recent arrival in the east-central Alberta retail market with a new grain elevator. Privately-held P+H announced Tuesday it will build a new 46,000-tonne capacity grain elevator and crop input centre at Viking, about 120 km southeast of […]

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Quebec veal processors merging

Nov. 21, 2017 at 4:06 am CST

The bulk of Quebec’s veal processing capacity is forming up under one banner as Delimax-Montpak gets set to buy its rival Ecolait out of creditor protection. Delimax-Montpak Group announced Friday it has an agreement in principle to buy St-Hyacinthe-based Ecolait for total consideration of $50 million. Delimax-Montpak said Friday the […]

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