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N.L. agrifoods file moves to new minister

Dec. 15, 2015 at 6:20 pm CST

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Forestry and Agrifoods Agency, which oversees public policy for the province’s livestock, crops and agrifood sectors, is again getting new management. Oversight for the agency, first set up in 2007 by then-natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale, had been moved in March from the natural resources department to the […]

Parmalat gets GF2 funds for new Winnipeg milk plant

Dec. 15, 2015 at 5:34 pm CST

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Quebec co-ops’ urea plant back on hold

Dec. 14, 2015 at 8:17 pm CST

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Alberta’s farm worker bill passes, with tweaks

Dec. 12, 2015 at 3:33 pm CST

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Province backs new Hamilton bulk flour mill

Dec. 7, 2015 at 8:14 pm CST

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Yara to buy Agrium fertilizer upgrading plant

Dec. 7, 2015 at 3:52 am CST

Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium has a buyer lined up for a U.S. nitrogen upgrading site it’s been looking to sell since April. Oslo-based fertilizer giant Yara said Thursday it’s made a deal to buy Agrium’s West Sacramento Nitrogen Operations plant for US$27 million (C$36 million) and use the facility instead […]

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Maple Leaf to upgrade stunning process, ‘accelerate’ on sow housing

Dec. 5, 2015 at 3:35 pm CST

Pledging to upgrade its hog and poultry stunning processes, speed up its timeline on sow housing and step up its game on facility audits, livestock pain management and reduced antibiotic use, Maple Leaf Foods said Friday it’s now set to carve an animal care agenda into formal company policy. The […]

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Sask. widens wolf harvest pilot area

Dec. 3, 2015 at 9:20 pm CST

Last winter’s pilot project to push wolves back from ranches and farms in northeastern Saskatchewan will expand west this winter. Saskatchewan’s environment ministry on Wednesday announced a wolf hunt will run from Dec. 15 this year until March 31, 2016 in wildlife management zones (WMZs) 49 and 53. The wolf […]

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Que. dairyman named parliamentary ag secretary

Dec. 3, 2015 at 8:09 pm CST

Canada’s agriculture minister will get a Quebec dairyman and grain farmer turned rookie Liberal MP as his new parliamentary secretary. Jean-Claude Poissant, who won the re-formed Montreal-area riding of La Prairie for the Liberals on Oct. 19 by a spread of almost 5,900 votes over Bloc Quebecois contender Christian Picard, […]

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Feed was ‘most plausible’ source of BSE in Case 19

Dec. 3, 2015 at 4:50 am CST

Canada’s food safety agency is still tracking down the last herdmates of the country’s 19th domestic case of BSE, but will otherwise assume the Alberta cow most likely caught the disease from traces of proteins in its early feed. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Nov. 30 submitted its final […]

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