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Sask. greases wheels for biofuel project funding

Feb. 25, 2008 at 8:37 pm CST

Biofuel processing projects in Saskatchewan will have an easier time of getting funding under changes made to the provincial Biofuels Investment Opportunity (SaskBIO) program, the province announced Monday. The changes allow an “eligible community investor” to mean anyone living and doing business in Saskatchewan, rather than anyone living within a […]

Farm cash receipts at new high: StatsCan

Feb. 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm CST

By Statistics Canada

CWB shortens PPO pricing periods

Feb. 25, 2008 at 7:48 pm CST

By FBC staff

Mexico, Barbados accept Canadian breeding cattle

Feb. 25, 2008 at 7:38 pm CST

By FBC staff

High fertilizer prices seen at possible peak: analyst

Feb. 25, 2008 at 2:40 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feds back GMC value chain centre

Feb. 24, 2008 at 12:37 am CST

The George Morris Centre’s planned Value Chain Management Centre will get some value added through a $1 million federal contribution. The funding was announced Friday in Guelph, where the agriculture think-tank is based. The VCMC, to be located at the centre, is expected to raise awareness and demonstrate the financial […]

By FBC staff

Sask. boosts crops’ insured prices for 2008

Feb. 22, 2008 at 4:07 pm CST

Among new programs such as coverage for gopher damage, Saskatchewan Crop Insurance will also “substantially” raise its insured prices for 2008, by almost 50 per cent per acre on average. “Our dollar coverage is increasing from a provincial average of $86 per acre in 2007 to $128 per acre in […]

By FBC staff

Ont. cattlemen name new chief

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:29 pm CST

The Ontario Cattlemen’s Association has picked Gord Hardy, a Middlesex County feedlot operator, as its new president. Hardy, an OCA director for southern Ontario since 2000 and most recently the beef producer group’s vice-president, replaces Elgin County cow-calf operator Ian McKillop, who stepped down from the president’s chair. Hardy and […]

By FBC staff

Express SG picks up more pre-seed burnoffs

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:00 pm CST

DuPont Canada now has regulators’ approval for Prairie farmers to use its Group 2 broadleaf herbicide Express SG, tank-mixed with glyphosate, for burnoff before seeding oats, winter wheat or canaryseed. Express SG, a soluble granule form of tribenuron methyl, is marketed as a booster for glyphosate products, such as Monsanto’s […]

By FBC staff

Man. research to boost forage feeding funded

Feb. 22, 2008 at 2:22 pm CST

Cattle producers looking to cut their reliance on increasingly expensive feed grains are expected to benefit from a $5.2 million deal for research in Manitoba on grass and forage feeding. The federal and provincial governments and the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association announced the agreement Friday at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s […]

By FBC staff