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Food prices not yet seen cutting beef demand

Jun. 26, 2008 at 12:54 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Rising prices in general for food in Canada’s grocery stores haven’t yet translated into reduced demand for beef products, according to an official with the Beef Information Centre (BIC). “Is the Canadian beef sector immune from the rise in prices? I would say not, but there […]

New N.B. farmland development funded

Jun. 25, 2008 at 6:21 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Financing lined up for E. coli vaccine plant

Jun. 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Canpotex to raise potash shipping capacity

Jun. 25, 2008 at 5:43 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ont. puts up $4M for farmers’ market projects

Jun. 25, 2008 at 5:28 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CWB posts new midge maps

Jun. 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm CDT

Weather data and computer modeling will help the Canadian Wheat Board post new daily maps estimating how and when wheat midge will emerge across the Prairies. The CWB announced Wednesday that it will post midge emergence maps on its site every weekday until the end of July. The maps are […]

By FBC staff

Ag secretary named public works minister

Jun. 25, 2008 at 1:08 pm CDT

Quebec MP Christian Paradis, the federal secretary of state for agriculture, has been named the federal minister for public works and government services. Paradis’ new duties will be in addition to his work on the ag file, assisting Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday. Secretaries of […]

By FBC staff

Former AU CEO joins BDC board

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:17 pm CDT

The federal government has named former Agricore United CEO Brian Hayward to the board of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Hayward is now president of Aldare Resources, the Winnipeg business consulting firm he formed in 2007 after the takeover of AU, then Canada’s largest grain handler, by No. […]

By FBC staff

Market Insight: Dry bean stocks, acres down

Jun. 25, 2008 at 11:46 am CDT

Dry edible bean supplies have been falling in Canada in recent years, and are poised to drop again by the end of 2008-09 to historically very tight levels. FarmLink is forecasting ending stocks to come in at just 9,000 tonnes, compared to 20,000 tonnes in 2007-08 and the five-year average […]

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Canola acres up unexpectedly, barley down

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:50 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Canadian farmers seeded more canola than they originally said they intended to, bringing Western Canada up to a record 15.812 million acres, according to Statistics Canada’s updated 2008 estimates of principal field crop area. “It seemed like almost nobody thought there would be any big shifts […]

By Alana Vannahme