Insights and Stories of Staff

Toronto juice firm backed for ‘cold pasteurization’

Jul. 10, 2017 at 2:37 am CDT

A Toronto organic juice processor that bills itself as shunning conventional pasteurization for its products has picked up federal funding to develop a “new-to-Canada” way to extend their shelf life. The federal government on Friday announced a “repayable investment” of up to $6.3 million from the AgriInnovation program for Greenhouse […]

Ontario processor fined for faux-kosher cheese

Jul. 8, 2017 at 5:39 pm CDT

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Prairie wheat, barley commissions’ single checkoffs set

Jul. 7, 2017 at 2:49 pm CDT

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Finer nozzle screens linked to Proline plug-ups

Jul. 6, 2017 at 6:17 pm CDT

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Three shortlines to buy Saskatchewan’s grain cars

Jul. 5, 2017 at 7:53 pm CDT

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Prairie wheat commissions, grain firms to fund Cigi

Jul. 4, 2017 at 8:10 pm CDT

The technical institute for Canadian field crops will get its core funding from now on through the Prairies’ major grain export firms and its three provincial wheat grower commissions. Cigi, the Canadian International Grains Institute, on Tuesday announced the new funding model, plus a new governance model setting up a […]

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Equine anemia turns up in some Manitoba horses

Jul. 2, 2017 at 4:41 pm CDT

A viral horse disease that’s more prevalent further west in Canada has returned to Manitoba for the first time in recent memory, as horses from two municipalities have been found to caught the virus in the past four weeks. Equine infectious anemia (EIA) was confirmed in horses from a property […]

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Federal response tightened for chronic wasting disease

Jul. 1, 2017 at 1:23 am CDT

Canadian ranchers raising cervids such as elk, deer and moose will soon have to get in on certification programs before they can be eligible for any federal help in the event of a chronic wasting disease (CWD) outbreak. One of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) family of nervous system diseases, […]

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Dow, DuPont to shed Canadian assets for merger approval

Jun. 27, 2017 at 7:31 pm CDT

Competition for the Prairie farmer’s crop protection dollar will survive following the planned merger of chemical giants Dow and DuPont, by way of a handful of asset sales, Canada’s Competition Bureau has ruled. The federal antitrust watchdog on Tuesday announced it has an agreement with DuPont and Dow Chemical to […]

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Former Alberta agriculture minister LeRoy Fjordbotten, 78

Jun. 25, 2017 at 11:57 am CDT

Memorial services will be held Sunday in Claresholm, Alta. for LeRoy Fjordbotten, the farmer and consultant who served as Alberta’s agriculture minister from 1982 to 1986. Fjordbotten, who died June 8, farmed northeast of Granum, about 60 km northwest of Lethbridge, and was a member of Flying Farmers of Alberta […]

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