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Farmers play last card in planned CWB class action

Jul. 13, 2015 at 8:39 pm CDT

One claim remaining from an unsuccessful bid at a class action suit by four Prairie farmers, over payouts to producers from the former Canadian Wheat Board, will be the farmers’ basis for a new filing. The four farmers, whose previous proposed class action was dismissed with costs in April by […]

FCC to offer breaks on loans in Sask., Alta.

Jul. 13, 2015 at 7:22 pm CDT

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National hedging plan weighed for hog farmers

Jul. 10, 2015 at 8:33 pm CDT

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Agropur to shut Montreal-area milk plant

Jul. 9, 2015 at 8:02 pm CDT

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CPSR wheat breeding program adopts ‘4-P’ model

Jul. 9, 2015 at 3:10 am CDT

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BSE case’s traceout continues

Jul. 7, 2015 at 1:28 am CDT

Federal officials tracing out the herdmates of Canada’s 19th domestic case of BSE expect to have their final report on the case ready in late fall. Confirmed Feb. 11 as Canada’s first domestic case of the brain-wasting bovine disease since 2011, Case 19 was born in 2009 on the same […]

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Canterra, Limagrain plan cereal breeding j.v.

Jul. 3, 2015 at 8:11 pm CDT

Canada’s recent moves to tighten protections of plant breeders’ rights are getting the credit for encouraging a new private-sector joint venture in cereal seed development for the Prairie market. Canterra Seeds and French farmer co-operative Limagrain on Thursday announced they would further tie up their wheat variety commercialization work through […]

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SW Ontario pullet flock’s ILT contained

Jul. 3, 2015 at 7:12 pm CDT

A warning to southwestern Ontario’s poultry producers in May to step up biosecurity over a non-avian-flu-related disease outbreak has been lifted. The Feather Board Command Centre, the emergency response office for Ontario’s poultry and egg sector boards, last week issued a “stand down” for heightened biosecurity, following an outbreak of […]

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Sask. extends greenfeed seeding deadline

Jul. 2, 2015 at 8:25 pm CDT

Livestock producers in parched areas of Saskatchewan now have until mid-month to seed insured acres to cereal greenfeed. The federal and provincial governments on Thursday announced an extension of Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp.’s deadline for seeding greenfeed to July 15, from June 30. Producers signed up for crop insurance will […]

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Paterson to build central Alta. grain terminal

Jun. 30, 2015 at 8:24 pm CDT

Winnipeg’s Paterson Grain plans to make its move into the central Alberta grain handling market with a new inland terminal about an hour southeast of Edmonton. Paterson announced Thursday it plans to build a 55,000-tonne capacity handling site at Daysland, about 40 km southeast of Camrose, to start accepting grain […]

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