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Energy costs not seen affecting seeding plans

Jan. 24, 2008 at 3:42 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Cropping choices by Canadian farmers this spring may not necessarily be impacted by high energy costs as they have in the past, with the offsetting factor being high prices. “Fuel and fertilizer costs are indeed significantly higher than what they were at the same time a […]

Alta. climate plan eyes emission cuts for ag

Jan. 24, 2008 at 3:25 pm CST

By FBC staff

Man. canola checkoff to double

Jan. 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm CST

By FBC staff

Sugar CEO eyed for CWB post: MCO

Jan. 24, 2008 at 2:21 pm CST

By FBC staff

Viterra picks VANOC VP as new CFO

Jan. 24, 2008 at 2:01 pm CST

By FBC staff

Crops boost farm product price index

Jan. 23, 2008 at 3:24 pm CST

Statistics Canada’s farm product price index (FPPI) for November 2007 rose from the same month in 2006 on the back of escalating crop prices, the agency reported Wednesday. The statistician’s preliminary numbers for November 2007 point to a 3.7 per cent rise in the overall FPPI compared to November 2006, […]

By FBC staff

Ont. to fund farm help line, business training

Jan. 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm CST

Ontario will dip into a $20 million fund for livestock and horticulture producers to back business training and a phone-in help line. The provincial government on Wednesday said it will direct $300,000 from that funding to the Centre for Rural Leadership. The centre will use the money to identify and […]

By FBC staff

N.B. plans $3M loan program for hog farmers

Jan. 23, 2008 at 1:38 pm CST

New Brunswick will put up $3 million in loans for its hog farmers over the next two years, the agriculture department announced Wednesday. Citing the rising loonie, the “significant” drop in hog prices and escalating feed and fuel costs, the province said its program “will help stabilize the industry from […]

By FBC staff

CWB calls for higher initials

Jan. 23, 2008 at 1:25 pm CST

The Canadian Wheat Board has put in for another increase in the initial payments for 2007-08 wheat, durum and barley. The board reported Monday that it had filed a recommendation with the federal government on Jan. 7 to raise the 2007-08 initials. Ottawa must approve such increases. A CWB initial […]

By FBC staff

COOL legislation remains a mystery

Jan. 23, 2008 at 12:15 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government’s plans this fall for mandatory country-of-origin-labelling (COOL) continues to confound the Canadian livestock industry, a sector already reeling from the effects of higher costs and lower prices. Mandatory COOL “is still being debated and how it actually ends up in its […]

By Alana Vannahme