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“Dysfunctional” markets caused livestock price drop: NFU

Nov. 7, 2007 at 1:58 pm CST

A livestock marketplace in which a few large corporations “heavily influence” both the farm gate and retail prices paid for livestock and meat have led to the collapse in returns to livestock producers, the National Farmers Union said Tuesday. The rising value of the Canadian dollar against U.S. currency is […]

Potato biogas plant could kill feed source: CBC

Nov. 7, 2007 at 1:22 pm CST

By FBC staff

Exporters share freight rate burden

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:39 pm CST

By Alana Vannahme

Ottawa backs Alta. biodiesel plant with $639K

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:33 pm CST

By FBC staff

Cuba, CWB sign wheat deal

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:06 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Monsanto to back Young Farmers Forum

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:01 pm CST

The Canadian Young Farmers’ Forum has signed a three-year deal in which Monsanto Canada will put up cash and in-kind support for leadership and training programs for young farmers. The CYFF is a professional development group for farmers between ages 18 and 40 to provide a forum for information, consolidate […]

By FBC staff

Ottawa puts up $300K for Man. biodiesel project

Nov. 6, 2007 at 5:19 pm CST

The federal government’s Biofuels Opportunities for Producers Initiative (BOPI) will put up $300,000 for a biodiesel project at Altona in southern Manitoba, the company announced Tuesday. Sunbelt BioFuels Ltd. will get the maximum BOPI funding allowed, to be put toward planning its proposed 113.6 million-litre-per-year canola biodiesel plant. The funding, […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola lifted by soaring soyoil

Nov. 6, 2007 at 3:58 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mixed with canola posting moderate gains in the wake of a steep rise in Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures, brokers said. Canola saw a moderate trade with intermonth spreading a minor component of the total […]

By Don Bousquet

R-CALF files for “Rule 2” injunction

Nov. 5, 2007 at 7:26 pm CST

R-CALF USA, a legal-action group of northern-state ranchers and cattlemen, has asked a U.S. district court for an injunction to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new rule allowing imports of older Canadian cattle before the rule can take effect. The group, along with 10 other plaintiffs, filed a complaint […]

By FBC staff

Ottawa puts up $46M to fight plum pox

Nov. 5, 2007 at 6:09 pm CST

Ontario’s tender fruit (peach, plum, apricot, nectarine) industry will get aid and further surveillance from a new federal/provincial venture to eradicate plum pox. The federal and Ontario governments announced the funding Monday. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will put up $36.16 million over four years, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency […]

By FBC staff