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Editors’ Picks: Eat kangaroos, save world

Aug. 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm CDT

Cutting back on beef and lamb and eating more kangaroo is being touted as a way for meat consumers to help combat climate change, the British ag newspaper Farmers Weekly reported Wednesday. “Sheep and cattle constitute 11 per cent of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Kangaroos, however, produce relatively little […]

Federal rail service review rolls ahead

Aug. 12, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask., Man. winter wheat harvests underway

Aug. 12, 2008 at 2:54 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Canola growers should wait for “average” colour

Aug. 12, 2008 at 1:03 pm CDT

By Canola Council of Canada

Two cattle die of anthrax in Sask.

Aug. 12, 2008 at 12:53 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Scotiabank launches new ag financing products

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

Scotiabank has launched a new farm credit suite and new farm banking package for Canadian farmers that it says will help them respond more quickly to shifting markets and opportunities. Scotia Flex for agriculture, announced Monday, provides farming and agribusiness customers with the ability to customize their farm credit needs […]

By FBC staff

Man. farmers’ group to buy CPR track

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

Farmer-owned Boundary Trail Railway Co. Inc. has reached a deal with Canadian Pacific Railway to keep almost 40 km of CPR track in southern Manitoba from being torn up for scrap. The 37.4 km involved had been part of CPR’s La Riviere subdivision, from Binney Corner (near St. Leon, about […]

By FBC staff

Agrium to buy rather than build in Egypt

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:03 pm CDT

Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium, stymied by public opposition to its plans for a joint-venture urea plant on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, will instead take a stake in a new plant already built nearby, with plans to expand it. In a deal announced Monday with the Egyptian government, EAgrium, the joint venture […]

By FBC staff

No progress seen in Viterra strike

Aug. 11, 2008 at 4:02 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The ongoing labour dispute at grain handler Viterra’s Regina headquarters is entering its second month with no sign of any progress, according to the union representing the 200 striking office workers. “There hasn’t been any movement,” said Hugh Wagner, general secretary of the Grain Services Union […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CWB rips Alta. single desk report

Aug. 11, 2008 at 3:56 pm CDT

An Alberta government report that seeks to discredit the claimed economic merits of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk uses “false assumptions and selective data” to undermine the CWB’s value, according to the board’s CEO. “This study is badly flawed,” Ian White said in a CWB release Friday. “The […]

By FBC staff