Insights and Stories of Staff

Ontario redrafts vegetable grower organization governance

Jun. 25, 2017 at 12:22 am CDT

Ontario’s Farm Products Marketing Commission (OFPMC) is proposing a new governance structure for the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers, which has been without a board of directors since March. The commission last week released proposed amendments to provincial Regulations 441 and 400, which would set up an eight-member OPVG board with […]

Tim Hortons parent updates antibiotic policy for chicken

Jun. 22, 2017 at 7:01 pm CDT

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PotashCorp, Agrium choose new married name

Jun. 21, 2017 at 2:41 pm CDT

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No charges against Quebec’s ex-ag minister

Jun. 19, 2017 at 7:53 pm CDT

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Agrium buys polymer maker’s ag chem applications

Jun. 16, 2017 at 7:52 pm CDT

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Saskatchewan offers provincial pasture leases to patron groups

Jun. 15, 2017 at 5:38 pm CDT

Cattle producers using provincial pastures heading into the final three years of the Saskatchewan Pastures Program (SPP) will get the first chance at leasing them. The province announced in March it would wind down the SPP, kicking off a public consultation process. Based on those consultations, the province confirmed Thursday […]

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Bioprocessor coming to Sarnia

Jun. 15, 2017 at 2:03 pm CDT

Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) has invested in California bio-based products company Origin Materials. Origin Materials will be building its first commercial-scale demonstration facility in Sarnia, Ont. by late next year. It will be using bio-based feedstocks such as crops and biomass to make new polymers, surfactants and carbon blacks, which […]

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Dow’s Enlist corn cleared for Canada

Jun. 14, 2017 at 5:20 pm CDT

Corn growers in Canada can begin ordering Dow AgroSciences’ genetically modified Enlist corn later this summer, now that China will allow imports of grain grown from corn with the Enlist trait. Dow Agro announced Wednesday the glyphosate- and 2,4-D-tolerant corn will be commercially available in Canada and the U.S. for […]

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Iogo maker to ramp up drinkable yogurt production

Jun. 13, 2017 at 9:09 pm CDT

The yogurt-making joint venture of dairy co-ops Agropur and Agrifoods International plans to boost its drinkable yogurt output by adding another production line in Quebec’s Monteregie. Ultima Foods announced last week it will put up $10.8 million of its own funds plus a $3.6 million interest-free loan from Investissement Quebec, […]

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Syngenta exits canola seed business

Jun. 13, 2017 at 1:12 pm CDT

Canola growers checking out Syngenta Canada’s 2018 seed guide for Western Canada will notice canola by its absence. Syngenta, which entered the Prairie canola seed market in 2013 and by this spring had six hybrid varieties on offer, said in a statement it has “recently taken the decision to exit […]

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