Insights and Stories of Staff

Prince Rupert expansion to handle crop containers

Mar. 20, 2017 at 8:29 pm CDT

A Montreal logistics firm specializing in loading pulses and grains into containers for export out of Vancouver and Montreal plans to set up shop at Prince Rupert. The Prince Rupert Port Authority on Monday announced Ray-Mont Logistics is developing a logistics and container loading facility at the south end of […]

No point in quarantine for verticillium wilt, CFIA says

Mar. 18, 2017 at 8:26 pm CDT

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Canada blocks poultry, eggs from Tennessee, Alabama

Mar. 17, 2017 at 9:25 pm CDT

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Manitoba to axe limits on hog barns

Mar. 17, 2017 at 7:10 pm CDT

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Federal rules tightened for recreational drone use

Mar. 16, 2017 at 8:33 pm CDT

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Cool, dry canola keeps best when left alone

Mar. 16, 2017 at 6:46 pm CDT

For farmers who plan to keep canola in bins through the hottest months of the year, a new Prairie study suggests that to manage bin temperature, less handling is better. Having set out to study how best to manage higher-moisture canola over the spring and summer, a team from the […]

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PED pops back up in southern Ontario

Mar. 14, 2017 at 3:37 am CDT

Porcine epidemic diarrhea has appeared on two hog operations in southern Ontario, after nearly eight months with no new cases in the province. Ontario Pork reported the province’s 100th and 101st cases of PED on Feb. 22 and March 7, at finisher barns in Middlesex County and in the Haldimand-Norfolk […]

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Saskatchewan tightens up powers on Crown land

Mar. 13, 2017 at 8:00 pm CDT

New legislation giving the Saskatchewan government more powers to prevent misuse of Crown land, and more leeway in dealing with leaseholders, is now in effect. The province on Monday announced its new Provincial Lands Act and related regulations, introduced in the legislature last June, have been formally proclaimed and are […]

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JBS to buy U.S. pork processor Plumrose

Mar. 13, 2017 at 7:09 pm CDT

U.S. ham and bacon processor Plumrose is set to become an arm of major Brazilian meatpacker JBS. JBS, whose holdings include one of Canada’s biggest beef packing plants at Brooks, Alta., announced Monday it has an agreement in place to buy Plumrose from Danish co-operative Danish Crown for US$230 million. […]

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Robot milker firm Lely to shed forage equipment business

Mar. 13, 2017 at 6:24 pm CDT

Dutch dairy equipment manufacturer Lely, best known in the Canadian market for its robotic milking systems, plans to focus on that business and sell its forage equipment lines to Agco. The two companies announced Monday they have an agreement in principle for Lely to sell its forage division, including two […]

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