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Que. ag minister orders pork industry meeting

Mar. 14, 2008 at 5:50 pm CDT

Quebec Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard has called a meeting for next week with representatives of the province’s pork processors and hog producers to find out their next move, after talks toward a revival for the battered sector went bust. Lessard, in a news release Friday, said he was strongly disappointed […]

Soybean inoculants approved for West

Mar. 14, 2008 at 5:01 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Agropur buys Lamothe dairy

Mar. 14, 2008 at 4:46 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Agrium extends UAP offer, again

Mar. 14, 2008 at 3:10 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I.’s FoodTrust up for sale

Mar. 14, 2008 at 1:41 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Biotech safflower moves toward new food market

Mar. 14, 2008 at 1:26 pm CDT

A Calgary plant biotech company’s safflowers, already heading toward use as potential factories for new drugs, are part of a new marketing deal for their use in making food supplements. SemBioSys Genetics has previously modified its safflower lines to produce human insulin and a next-generation cardiovascular drug with a goal […]

By FBC staff

Sask. hog farmers get new AgriStability TAP

Mar. 14, 2008 at 12:25 am CDT

Hog farmers in Saskatchewan will be offered early access to their expected 2008 AgriStability payout under a Targeted Advance Payment (TAP) program announced Thursday. Eligible producers will be contacted “soon” with information on the amounts of their advances and how to receive those payments, the federal agriculture department said in […]

By FBC staff

B.C. tightens rules for farm labour contractors

Mar. 13, 2008 at 5:55 pm CDT

Contractors who provide workers for British Columbia farms could lose their licenses for safety violations under legislation introduced Thursday. Labour Minister Olga Ilich on Thursday introduced amendments to the provincial Employment Standards Act which provide for a farm labour contractor’s license to be cancelled or suspended for violations of WorkSafeBC […]

By FBC staff

Alta. names new deputy ag minister

Mar. 13, 2008 at 5:36 pm CDT

Alberta’s new agriculture and rural development department will have a new top bureaucrat, the province announced Thursday. John Knapp, formerly the assistant deputy minister for the environmental assurance division of the environment ministry, has been named the deputy minister for agriculture and rural development. Knapp, who was one of eight […]

By FBC staff

Agricorp offers new RMP coverage options

Mar. 13, 2008 at 4:47 pm CDT

Ontario’s grain and oilseed growers can now take their pick of one of four coverage levels under the 2008 Risk Management Program (RMP). Agricorp, which is delivering the three-year support program to Ontario farmers, announced the change in a release Thursday. Unlike the first year of the RMP in 2007, […]

By FBC staff