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Cargill to expand at Camrose

Dec. 4, 2007 at 1:01 am CST

Cargill has started construction work to more than double the storage at its newly-acquired grain handling facility at Camrose in central Alberta. The Camrose East elevator is a former Agricore United facility sold to Cargill this summer as part of a deal with Saskatchewan Wheat Pool to satisfy antitrust watchdogs […]

Agrium to buy UAP

Dec. 4, 2007 at 12:35 am CST

By FBC staff

Farmed fuels bill and incentives finalized

Dec. 3, 2007 at 7:02 pm CST

By FBC staff

Organic umbrella group funded

Dec. 3, 2007 at 5:12 pm CST

By FBC staff

Sask. hog plant plan enters second phase

Dec. 3, 2007 at 4:33 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

WCE close: Canola down on weak CBOT soyoil

Dec. 3, 2007 at 3:18 pm CST

(RNI) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Monday’s session mainly lower with canola down modestly on the weak tone in Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures, brokers said. Canola saw a moderate trade with intermonth spreading augmenting the activity. Index funds were felt to have completed their […]

By Don Bousquet

N.B. farm register to fund farm groups

Dec. 2, 2007 at 2:24 am CST

New Brunswick’s provincial government has set up a voluntary Register of Farm Businesses, from which fees will be used to fund the operations of the province’s general farm organizations. Under the system launched Friday, farmers who opt to register would pay annual fees of between $150 and $500, based on […]

By FBC staff

Irrigation thirstiest for Alta. water supply: report

Dec. 2, 2007 at 2:21 am CST

While Alberta’s oil industry is expected to post the biggest increase in demand for that province’s water between now and 2010, irrigation is expected to account for the biggest increase in the five following years, according to a new provincial government report. The environment department’s report on current and future […]

By FBC staff

Chem companies’ court battle at dead end

Dec. 2, 2007 at 2:16 am CST

A 10-year legal fight between Saskatoon inoculant maker Philom Bios and chemical firm Dow AgroSciences Canada has ended at the Supreme Court of Canada’s doorstep. Philom Bios reported Friday that the country’s top court has dismissed Dow Agro’s application for leave to appeal an April 2007 ruling by an Alberta […]

By FBC staff

Ecological goods and services pilot funded in N.S.

Dec. 2, 2007 at 2:14 am CST

The Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture will use over half a million dollars in new federal funding to put dollar values on farmers’ environmental management activities in an Ecological Goods and Services (EG&S) pilot project. Guy Lauzon, the federal parliamentary secretary for agriculture, announced the funding at the federation’s annual […]

By FBC staff