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Ont. MP named ag secretary in shuffle

Oct. 10, 2007 at 7:00 pm CDT

Eastern Ontario MP Guy Lauzon has been named to the post of Parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture and agri-food, Gerry Ritz. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement today amid a shuffle of secretary assignments. Parliamentary secretaries are members of Parliament who assist the sitting minister in his […]

Menu Foods restructures as costs pile up

Oct. 10, 2007 at 6:30 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.B. launches “buy local” initiative

Oct. 10, 2007 at 5:54 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Alta. harvest reported 85 per cent complete

Oct. 10, 2007 at 5:24 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

WCE close: Canola up on CBOT soy rally

Oct. 10, 2007 at 4:51 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Nufarm to sell Achieve Liquid Gold

Oct. 10, 2007 at 2:26 pm CDT

Nufarm will take over marketing of Syngenta’s Achieve Liquid Gold herbicide in Western Canada, the companies announced Tuesday. Achieve Liquid Gold is a tank mix of Syngenta’s graminicide Achieve (Group 1) and Bayer CropScience’s Buctril M (Groups 4 and 6). (Nufarm also markets a generic version of Buctril M under […]

By FBC staff

Sask. expects subpar yields

Oct. 10, 2007 at 1:43 pm CDT

Below-average yields and average quality are the estimated results of Saskatchewan’s 2007 harvest campaign, which now sits at 94 per cent complete, the provincial ag department reported Wednesday. Harvest progress continues ahead of the curve, overall, compared to the five-year (2002-06) average of 82 per cent, the province reported. Southern […]

By FBC staff

N.L. farm minister, critic reelected

Oct. 9, 2007 at 11:32 pm CDT

Both handlers of the provincial agri-foods file, Newfoundland and Labrador’s natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale and Liberal critic Yvonne Jones, kept their seats in the house of assembly in Tuesday’s provincial election. Jones was one of just three Liberals to be reelected in the province, as Premier Danny Williams’ Progressive […]

By FBC staff

Sask. program funds two ethanol plants

Oct. 9, 2007 at 6:18 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s provincial Biofuels Investment Opportunity (SaskBIO) program will put up $10 million and $2.5 million respectively for ethanol production plants at Tisdale and Unity, Sask. North West Bio-Energy, an offshoot of the North West Terminal high-throughput elevator at Unity, will receive $2.5 million on top of the $5.05 million in […]

By FBC staff

Rain stalls last of Man. harvest

Oct. 9, 2007 at 6:05 pm CDT

Rainfall across much of farming Manitoba over the long weekend held up harvest progress on a relatively small remainder of its crops, the provincial agriculture department reported today. Rain was welcome after a week of largely warm and dry conditions in most areas where farmers have seeded winter wheat and […]

By FBC staff