Insights and Stories of Staff

Ont. avian flu quarantines not yet ready to go

Jun. 29, 2015 at 8:18 pm CDT

Federal officials expect southwestern Ontario’s avian flu quarantines and control zones to stay in place for “several” more weeks yet. The Feather Board Command Centre (FBCC), the emergency response office for Ontario’s poultry and egg sector boards, said June 19 it’s been told by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) […]

SW Ont. county gets soybean planting extension

Jun. 29, 2015 at 7:25 pm CDT

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Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs

Jun. 29, 2015 at 6:28 pm CDT

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U.S. senators ponder voluntary COOL for beef, pork

Jun. 25, 2015 at 7:53 pm CDT

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Canada ratifies UPOV ’91 seed treaty

Jun. 22, 2015 at 7:55 pm CDT

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High-fat dairy demand leaving Ont. skim milk homeless

Jun. 19, 2015 at 2:51 pm CDT

Strong demand for high-butterfat dairy products, soft demand for fluid milk and maxed-out capacity to make skim milk powder have led Ontario’s dairy farmers in recent weeks to dump surplus skim milk in lagoons. A letter to producers last Friday from Dairy Farmers of Ontario board chairman Ralph Dietrich, intended […]

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Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

Jun. 18, 2015 at 9:01 pm CDT

Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the numbers of acute honey bee mortality “incidents” by bee yard in Ontario in the 2015 pre-planting and planting periods, up […]

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U.S. seeks arbitration at WTO over COOL-related sanctions

Jun. 17, 2015 at 6:39 pm CDT

The U.S. government has mounted a new defense at the World Trade Organization for its meat label law, this time seeking arbitration against Canada’s request for trade sanctions. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) had been scheduled Wednesday to hear Canadian trade officials’ request to authorize over $3 billion in tariffs on […]

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Quebec to halt ASRA for veal sector

Jun. 12, 2015 at 7:04 pm CDT

Quebec’s farm finance and funding agency plans to remove the veal sector from the province’s ASRA income stabilization program starting next year. La Financiere agricole du Quebec (FADQ) announced Friday that its board had agreed to end ASRA (Assurance stabilisation des revenus agricoles) coverage for Quebec’s milk-fed veal calf operations, effective Jan. 1, […]

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Canadian, U.S. regulators clear Heinz and Kraft merger

Jun. 11, 2015 at 6:08 pm CDT

Antitrust regulators in both Canada and the U.S. have fixed their seals of official inaction on ketchup giant H.J. Heinz’s play for control of Kraft Foods Group. Canada’s Competition Bureau has confirmed that it wrapped its review of the proposed deal and issued its “no action” letter to the companies […]

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