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Safety campaign offers equipment maintenance decals

Dec. 5, 2007 at 5:49 pm CST

Farmers can get up to 100 free new decals to keep notes on their farm machinery about regularly scheduled maintenance, through a nationwide farm safety program. The vinyl decals can be written on with a ballpoint pen to record the date, work summary and initials of the person doing the […]

WCE close: Canola rallies with CBOT soybeans

Dec. 5, 2007 at 4:33 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Food safety package set for fruit and veg growers

Dec. 5, 2007 at 4:02 pm CST

By chc-release

Husky ethanol plant hits startup phase

Dec. 4, 2007 at 6:02 pm CST

By FBC staff

U.S. rival buys Man. veterinary needle maker

Dec. 4, 2007 at 5:30 pm CST

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola boosted by falling dollar

Dec. 4, 2007 at 4:36 pm CST

(RNI) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mostly higher with solid gains in canola in the wake of the steep decline in the Canadian dollar, brokers said. Canola saw an active trade with much of the volume comprised of intermonth spreading, mainly by commercials. There […]

By Don Bousquet

Lethbridge biogas power plant funded

Dec. 4, 2007 at 3:30 pm CST

A biogas processing facility planned near Lethbridge will use local livestock manure and food processing waste as feedstock to generate electricity, heat and methane gas, with $1.5 million in provincial start-up funding. The grant to ECB Enviro North America from the Alberta government’s biorefining commercialization and market development program and […]

By FBC staff

N.S. food “micro-factory” funded

Dec. 4, 2007 at 3:09 pm CST

Nova Scotia Agricultural College will lead a project to develop and test a portable “micro-factory” to help small-scale food producers and processors get more value from their crops, with almost $1 million in federal funding. The federal government announced $950,000 for the Atlantic BioVenture Centre project on Monday. The micro-factory […]

By FBC staff

Crops’ viability for B.C. Peace to be studied

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:43 pm CST

A five-year project to find the crop varieties best suited to B.C.’s Peace River region and its “unique” growing conditions will get federal backing. Peace-area MP Jay Hill announced Ottawa’s pledge Saturday of $1.2 million for the B.C. Peace River Cereal, Flax and Pulse Crop Enhancement project. The project will […]

By FBC staff

Ont. to fund farm water protection

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:17 am CST

Farmers in Ontario are among those who can tap a new $4 million provincial government fund for water protection work in rural areas. The funding was part of a $7 million water stewardship package announced Monday, also including money to promote awareness of what individuals can do and to fund […]

By FBC staff