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Maple Leaf Foods to retain Rothsay rendering

Dec. 21, 2007 at 11:41 am CST

Maple Leaf Foods will be retaining its Rothsay rendering operations. The fate of the division has been up in the air since October 2006, when the company announced a major change of strategy to focus on growing its value added meat, meal and bakery business. At that time the company’s […]

Hermanson new Grain Commission head

Dec. 21, 2007 at 11:26 am CST

Saskatchewan program to support hog and cattle producers

Dec. 21, 2007 at 11:21 am CST

Kickstart funds en route for AgriInvest

Dec. 20, 2007 at 10:02 pm CST

By FBC staff

Wheat keeps climbing in December PROs

Dec. 20, 2007 at 9:16 pm CST

By FBC staff

Quebec offers $17.5M for PMWS-affected hog farms

Dec. 20, 2007 at 4:31 pm CST

Quebec’s provincial government will offer an ad-hoc aid package of over $17.5 million for hog farmers whose herds were hit by post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). Payment details for the aid package, announced Thursday by Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard, are expected to be finalized in January. La Financiere agricole, the […]

By FBC staff

Ottawa to invest $5M in Bioniche

Dec. 20, 2007 at 3:22 pm CST

The Belleville, Ont. maker of a vaccine expected to reduce E. coli bacteria levels in cattle and cow-pies is the first recipient of federal funding under the new AgriOpportunities program. Bioniche Life Sciences will get a repayable contribution of $5 million from Ottawa toward the $25 million first phase of […]

By FBC staff

Interest deferral extended on CAIS overpayments

Dec. 20, 2007 at 2:59 pm CST

The federal and provincial governments plan to defer collection of interest on CAIS overpayments until Dec. 31, 2008 as part of their support plan for the livestock sector. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced the measure Wednesday as one of a list of alterations to help livestock producers quicker access to […]

By FBC staff

Ont. soybean growers want back at merger table

Dec. 19, 2007 at 7:40 pm CST

Three weeks after walking away from merger talks with Ontario’s wheat and corn growers’ groups, members of Ontario Soybean Growers say they’d rather not call off the engagement yet. About 100 soybean growers at the OSG Committee Members’ meeting Wednesday in London, Ont., brought “multiple” resolutions forward from several districts, […]

By FBC staff

Aleutian disease spreads to Nfld. wild mink

Dec. 19, 2007 at 6:06 pm CST

Commercial mink farmers in Newfoundland are warned to keep wild mink off their farms now that Aleutian disease has arrived in the wild population. The provincial natural resources department announced Wednesday that eight of 18 wild animals trapped and tested between Marysvale and Holyrood in the Conception Bay area have […]

By FBC staff