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WCE close: Canola hits new highs for fifth session

Dec. 13, 2007 at 11:18 pm CST

(RNI) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Thursday’s session mixed with canola setting fresh contract highs for the fifth session in a row prompted by bullish technical signals, brokers said. Canola saw an active trade with intermonth spreading accounting for the bulk of the volume as commercials […]

Tories’ CWB appeal goes to court Feb. 26

Dec. 12, 2007 at 3:57 pm CST

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola soars to new highs on technicals

Dec. 12, 2007 at 3:25 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Hog farmers call for emergency loans before Christmas

Dec. 12, 2007 at 2:53 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ontario RMP payments in mail: Agricorp

Dec. 12, 2007 at 1:42 pm CST

By FBC staff

Nova Scotia to shed NSAC governance

Dec. 12, 2007 at 1:21 pm CST

Nova Scotia’s provincial government will cut its governing ties to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC), granting it the level of academic freedom and “insitutional autonomy” seen at other ag schools. Under a bill introduced Wednesday, the Truro-area college would no longer be a branch of the provincial department of […]

By FBC staff

Compensation raised for destroyed deer

Dec. 12, 2007 at 12:51 pm CST

The limit has been raised for compensation to owners of female white-tailed deer and males under 12 months old ordered destroyed for disease control, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Wednesday. The maximum compensation available for those animals under the federal Health of Animals Act has been raised from $2,500 […]

By FBC staff

CPR warns on earnings due to weather, fuel costs

Dec. 12, 2007 at 12:32 pm CST

Severe weather patterns in British Columbia early this month are expected to bite into Canadian Pacific Railway’s (CPR) 2007 earnings per share, the company warned Wednesday. The railway earlier this year announced an expected range of $4.30 to $4.45 for adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS), noting it had delivered […]

By FBC staff

Livestock producers need financing: Senate report

Dec. 11, 2007 at 11:46 pm CST

Ottawa must move immediately with measures including interest-free loans to shore up livestock producers hit by losses due to higher feed and operating costs and the rising Canadian dollar, according to an interim report tabled Tuesday by the Senate standing committee on agriculture. The loans would help producers cover their […]

By FBC staff

Farmers await Liberal ag task force’s ideas: CFA

Dec. 11, 2007 at 11:28 pm CST

A new task force on agriculture launched last week by the federal Liberal party is expected to come up with good ideas for the sector, but those ideas will need to be useful in the drafting of a new Canadian ag policy framework, according to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. […]

By FBC staff