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Sask. food centre chief moves to canola

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:24 am CDT

The manager of Saskatchewan’s provincial Food Industry Development Centre next month becomes executive director of the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission. Catherine Folkersen takes the new post starting July 28, the SCDC said in a release Tuesday. Raised in Ontario but with family roots at Bruno, Sask., Folkersen worked in the […]

Ont. dealership fined $100K over worker death

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:11 am CDT

By FBC staff

Better certificates boost pork access to Russia

Jun. 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm CDT

By Alana Vannahme

Hagen renamed B.C. ag minister in shuffle

Jun. 23, 2008 at 6:06 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Canada’s 13th mad cow found in B.C.

Jun. 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Man. pork co-op to shut assembly yard

Jun. 23, 2008 at 4:52 pm CDT

The Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op plans to close its St. Boniface hog assembly yard this Friday after 43 years, as it plans a new location on Winnipeg’s outskirts. And in light of lower operating costs as a result, the co-op said it will lower its marketing fee starting July 7. […]

By FBC staff

N.B. orchards, vineyards get rehab funding

Jun. 23, 2008 at 4:27 pm CDT

Tree fruit and grape growers in New Brunswick will get almost $773,000 in federal and provincial funds to pull up old plants and trees and upgrade to varieties that are more productive, more in demand or both. “These investments will allow tree fruit and grape growers to be responsive to […]

By FBC staff

Market Insight: Lentil supply/demand bullish

Jun. 23, 2008 at 3:53 pm CDT

Lentil prices remain at very high levels. Export demand is beyond what the Canadian market can supply in 2007-08, and the seeded area has fallen well short of what prices would ordinarily have bought from Canada in 2008-09 due to projected high returns to farmers for virtually all crops. Markets […]

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Don’t turn PKI pigeons loose: Fanciers

Jun. 23, 2008 at 3:39 pm CDT

Farmers in Canada and the U.S. left holding flocks of pigeons after the reported bankruptcy of Pigeon King International shouldn’t just release the birds, a national fanciers’ group urged Monday. Ontario farm media reported last week that farmers in several provinces who had invested in meat pigeons through Waterloo, Ont. […]

By FBC staff

Federal judge unties gag on CWB

Jun. 21, 2008 at 2:24 am CDT

In deciding how or if the Canadian Wheat Board should promote single-desk marketing of Prairie wheat and barley, the buck stops with CWB directors, not with the federal minister responsible, a federal court judge ruled Thursday. Federal Court Justice Roger Hughes of Winnipeg ruled that an October 2006 order-in-council, issued […]

By FBC staff