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WCE close: Canola falls on weak CBOT soyoil

Nov. 28, 2007 at 4:28 pm CST

(RNI) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Wednesday’s session mixed with canola lower on the weak tone in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soyoil futures, brokers said. Canola saw an active trade, with intermonth spreading augmenting the trading volume. Commercials were positioning themselves ahead of the index […]

Ag trends point to “new era” of opportunity: TD

Nov. 28, 2007 at 4:14 pm CST

By FBC staff

Meat testing at U.S. border back to normal

Nov. 28, 2007 at 3:10 pm CST

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola up on weak loonie, export talk

Nov. 27, 2007 at 5:03 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Documentation sought for rare Newfoundland Ponies

Nov. 27, 2007 at 4:45 pm CST

By FBC staff

Maltsters’ support puts CWB opponents on offensive

Nov. 27, 2007 at 4:18 pm CST

Opponents of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk for Prairie barley got support Tuesday from four major malting companies that now urge Ottawa to press ahead with “marketing choice.” The four, under the banner of the Malting Industry Association of Canada, called Tuesday for “the immediate introduction of legislation […]

By FBC staff

Viterra names new VP of HR

Nov. 27, 2007 at 3:36 pm CST

A consultant who helped design the merger process for the operations of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United has been named as the merged company’s new human resources VP. The official title for Steven Berger, who helped develop the integration plan while working for management consulting firm Accenture, will be […]

By FBC staff

Koch named Sask. deputy ag minister

Nov. 27, 2007 at 2:01 pm CST

Alanna Koch, head of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, is Saskatchewan’s new top agriculture bureaucrat. The province’s new Saskatchewan Party government, which ousted the New Democrats in the Nov. 7 election, announced Koch’s appointment as deputy minister of agriculture on Tuesday as part of a list of orders-in-council naming new […]

By FBC staff

Net farm income drops again in ’06

Nov. 26, 2007 at 6:54 pm CST

Canadian farmers’ realized net farm income dropped again in 2006 to its lowest level since 2003, Statistics Canada reported Monday. The federal statistician cited rising interest, wage and fuel costs along with declines in hog prices and program payments, which more than offset revenues from crops and cattle. The agency […]

By FBC staff

Little effect seen from EU grain tariff suspension

Nov. 26, 2007 at 5:18 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The move by the European Union to suspend import tariffs on most cereals for the rest of the 2007-08 marketing year will not open the door for increased Canadian wheat and barley shipments, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Wheat Board said. “What we are selling to […]

By Dwayne Klassen