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FarmLink picks up mobile management app

Nov. 19, 2015 at 8:37 pm CST

A Saskatchewan-developed, cloud-based mobile app for farm management is being uploaded into Prairie grain marketing consultancy FarmLink Marketing Solutions. Winnipeg-based FarmLink announced Tuesday it will merge Farm At Hand, the software platform developed by Kim Keller and Himanshu Singh, into its operations. Financial terms of the merger weren’t released. “It […]

Manitoba winter fertilizing ban back on

Nov. 19, 2015 at 6:50 pm CST

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Warm Prairie soils delay fertilizing ban, winter weights

Nov. 13, 2015 at 7:08 pm CST

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Legumex Walker shareholders approve sale

Nov. 13, 2015 at 3:15 pm CST

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Rookie MP named Bloc’s agriculture critic

Nov. 12, 2015 at 8:21 pm CST

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NDP’s deputy ag critic moves to first chair

Nov. 12, 2015 at 4:12 pm CST

The federal New Democrats have promoted their deputy agriculture critic to the lead post in their new shadow cabinet. NDP leader Tom Mulcair on Thursday announced Ruth Ellen Brosseau, the MP for the central Quebec riding of Berthier–Maskinonge since 2011, as the party’s critic for agriculture and agri-food, replacing defeated […]

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Olymel buying into Quebec pork packer Lucyporc

Nov. 11, 2015 at 3:09 am CST

Canada’s biggest pork and poultry exporter is set to take a stake in a Quebec pork packer specializing in cuts for the Japanese market and other overseas buyers. Olymel, the meat packing and processing arm of Quebec’s Coop Federee, announced a share exchange Monday with Quebec livestock producer and processor […]

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Alltech to buy up Canadian feed firm Masterfeeds

Nov. 11, 2015 at 2:08 am CST

Animal nutrition firm Alltech is set to make itself one of Canada’s top animal food and livestock feed players, with a deal in hand to buy the stake in Masterfeeds it doesn’t already own. Alltech, a Lexington, Kentucky-based international firm in aggressive acquisition mode, announced Tuesday it will buy all […]

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Manitoba extends fertilizing deadline to Saturday

Nov. 9, 2015 at 3:15 pm CST

A warmer-than-usual November has allowed Manitoba’s conservation and water stewardship department to delay its winter fertilizing ban until Saturday (Nov. 14). With soil temperatures not yet at the freezing point, the province announced Monday it would extend its deadline for spreading of phosphorus and/or nitrogen, including synthetic fertilizers and/or manure, […]

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Kraft Heinz to shut SW Ont. salad dressing plant

Nov. 9, 2015 at 12:12 pm CST

Merged food and condiment giant Kraft Heinz will shut down its salad dressing and sauce factory in southwestern Ontario and six other U.S. plants in a bid to cut its “excess capacity.” The company announced Wednesday it will shut its Richardson Foods plant at St. Marys, Ont., which makes and […]

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