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P.E.I., CRA to share info on ground hemlock

Feb. 14, 2008 at 4:12 pm CST

Harvesters of Prince Edward Island’s ground hemlock will find their work under both federal and provincial scrutiny through a new deal between the province and Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The provincial environment, energy and forestry department and CRA signed a memo of understanding Thursday on information sharing, a deal the […]

Cattle, hog herds dropping: StatsCan

Feb. 14, 2008 at 3:36 pm CST

By Statistics Canada

Prairie barley marketing legislation coming: Ritz

Feb. 14, 2008 at 3:14 am CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Agrium reports record 2007

Feb. 14, 2008 at 2:55 am CST

By FBC staff

Menu Foods posts $62M net loss for 2007

Feb. 14, 2008 at 2:32 am CST

By FBC staff

No Alta. pigs bound to Hawaii, for now: WSPA

Feb. 14, 2008 at 2:02 am CST

The Alberta-to-Hawaii hog shipping route detailed in a report Tuesday by an international coalition of animal welfare groups as “one of the world’s cruelest transport routes” hasn’t seen any Canadian hogs since October last year, one of the groups said Wednesday. The World Society for the Protection of Animals, a […]

By FBC staff

Canada’s GM crop acres up: report

Feb. 14, 2008 at 1:36 am CST

Canadian acreage devoted to genetically modified (GM) crops rose 13 per cent in 2007 over 2006, according to a report from an international biotech agency. Canada’s biotech crop acres rose from 15 million acres in 2006 to 17 million last year — just above the same percentage increase that was […]

By FBC staff

NOFG manager to run P.E.I. hog board

Feb. 14, 2008 at 1:14 am CST

The plant manager for Prince Edward Island’s ill-fated NOFG pork processing plant has been hired as the new executive director for the Prince Edward Island Hog Commodity Marketing Board. Tim Seeber has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, currently as the plant manager for the Charlottetown facility that Quebec […]

By FBC staff

Ag contest wants media-savvy young Manitobans

Feb. 14, 2008 at 1:01 am CST

Manitobans between ages 9 and 24 with an eye or ear for presentation and a germ of an agriculture-related idea can put their skills to the test in a new Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) contest with the help of the Manitoba Co-operator. The “Share What You See in Agriculture” media […]

By FBC staff

Agropur posts record earnings

Feb. 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm CST

Quebec dairy co-op Agropur reports that it’s still in expansion mode, having posted “new record” results in 2007. At its annual meeting Wednesday in Montreal, the company reported 2007 earnings (before patronage dividends and taxes) of $129.7 million on sales of $2.45 billion, up from $110 million on $2.3 billion […]

By FBC staff