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Viterra enters grain bin business

Nov. 13, 2007 at 6:47 pm CST

Canada’s biggest grain handler has added corrugated grain bins to its retail offerings. Viterra, which formed earlier this year from the merger of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United, announced Tuesday it will launch a new line of bins under the brand name Westor. The bins are engineered by Westeel […]

Right to shoo wildlife proposed for Yukon farmers

Nov. 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm CST

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola firm on weaker dollar

Nov. 13, 2007 at 5:33 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Ag Growth expands U.S. factory floor

Nov. 13, 2007 at 5:05 pm CST

By FBC staff

Lack of competition fuels high fertilizer prices: FNA

Nov. 12, 2007 at 11:33 pm CST

By Alana Vannahme

Children’s farm death rate not dropping: CASA

Nov. 10, 2007 at 2:17 am CST

The death rate for Canadian children injured while working or playing on farms hasn’t risen over time but hasn’t dropped either, according to the latest data mined by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA). Data collected by CASA for the latest Canadian agricultural injury surveillance program (CAISP) report shows 274 […]

By FBC staff

CPR scrap ties to generate power for B.C. grid

Nov. 10, 2007 at 1:31 am CST

Canadian Pacific Railway has signed a deal with a First Nations power cogeneration company to dispose of its scrap railroad ties. CPR announced an agreement Friday with Aboriginal Cogeneration Corp., which plans to have its first gasification plant operating by spring 2008 at Ashcroft, B.C., west of Kamloops. Rather than […]

By FBC staff

N.L. cranberry industry gets $2M public boost

Nov. 10, 2007 at 1:11 am CST

Newfoundland and Labrador will get over $2 million in public investment toward development of the province’s cranberry industry. The federal and provincial governments on Friday announced $1.3 million from the federal Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) innovative communities fund, $530,400 in provincial natural resources department funding (including $48,000 from the […]

By FBC staff

Ottawa puts up $530K for SE Sask. land use study

Nov. 10, 2007 at 12:55 am CST

The federal government will pay over $530,000 in Ecological Goods and Services (EG&S) funding to take inventory of farmers’ land use in the southeastern corner of Saskatchewan, set landscape goals and work out the bill to reach those goals. The study by the Lower Souris Watershed Committee is one of […]

By FBC staff

No progress seen on migrant ag workers’ issues: UFCW

Nov. 10, 2007 at 12:25 am CST

An annual review by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) on labour conditions for migrant farm workers in Canada raises concerns that Ottawa has done nothing about the serious issues facing those workers, the union says. “If you’ve got problems, keep them to yourself or you’ll be sent packing. […]

By FBC staff