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N.B. to restrict live chicken exports

Jun. 4, 2008 at 1:41 am CDT

The New Brunswick government is introducing “temporary” legislation that would require all chickens raised in the province to be processed only in designated plants. Agriculture Minister Ron Ouellette said in a release Tuesday that the amendment to the Natural Products Act is meant to prevent the province’s poultry producers from […]

Russia to resume Canadian pork imports

Jun. 4, 2008 at 1:27 am CDT

By FBC staff

CN gets revenue-cap cash back on appeal

Jun. 4, 2008 at 1:10 am CDT

By FBC staff

Nfld. to cover extra limestone trucking costs

Jun. 4, 2008 at 12:05 am CDT

By FBC staff

Former B.C. ag minister won’t run again

Jun. 3, 2008 at 11:40 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Canola pod sealant approved

Jun. 3, 2008 at 12:41 pm CDT

Pennsylvania ag input firm Miller Chemical has picked up Canadian registration for a pine-based, food-grade polymer to help prevent pod shattering in canola crops. The product, called Pod Ceal DC, has approval from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency for use in canola and mustard crops. Winnipeg seed company BrettYoung, […]

By FBC staff

Volatility may curtail multi-year contracts

Jun. 3, 2008 at 12:16 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The price volatility that has crept into the Canadian ag industry may have long-term implications for multi-year contracts, with farmers less willing to sign onto agreements that look attractive one season and inadequate the next, an agricultural analyst said. Ron Frost, a marketing specialist with Pike […]

By Alana Vannahme

March crop prices up 35 per cent: StatsCan

Jun. 3, 2008 at 11:32 am CDT

Prices farmers received for their commodities rose 9.8 per cent in March 2008 from the same month a year earlier, as significant gains in crop prices offset declines in livestock prices, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. Prices that producers received for crops continued their double-digit increases, up 35.4 per cent in […]

By Statistics Canada

Sask., Man. seeding nearly done

Jun. 3, 2008 at 12:32 am CDT

Barring some reseeding of canola acres, farmers in Manitoba are done or nearly done seeding their 2008 crops, while Saskatchewan farmers are all but three per cent done, well ahead of the five-year curve. Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry reported Monday that seeding is 97 per cent complete, ahead of last week’s […]

By FBC staff

Crop prices boost Que. farmland values: report

Jun. 2, 2008 at 11:45 pm CDT

The value of farmland that changed hands in Quebec during 2007 has risen seven per cent to $5,400 per hectare, according to a new report on land values from the provincial ag lending agency. The report, released Monday by La Financiere agricole and Quebec City-based ag think tank Groupe Ageco, […]

By FBC staff