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Alta. would intervene in CWB case: minister

Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm CDT

Alberta says it will again apply for intervener status if the federal government is granted leave to appeal a ruling that shut down its plans for an open market in Prairie barley. In a column distributed by the provincial agriculture department, Agriculture Minister George Groeneveld said the province “will remain […]

Pork council joins call for higher hog prices

Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Packers’ group names Canadian spokesman

Sep. 26, 2007 at 12:43 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Biotech not on consumers’ radar for food fears

Sep. 25, 2007 at 7:16 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Agrium shuts N plant for lack of gas

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:59 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Biotech supporters urged to take leadership role

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:42 pm CDT

Calgary —At the same time that the world’s biotech scientists and regulators were deep in the 2007 Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC 2007) conference here, Canada’s media had been been invited to a press conference in the same building with Dr. Florence Wambugu, one of the world’s leading scientists helping […]

By FBC staff

Pioneer rolls out new soy breeding tool

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:10 pm CDT

DuPont’s seed breeding firm Pioneer Hi-Bred plans to have new soybean varieties in 2008 selected for higher yield potential using a new breeding process. The patented molecular breeding process, which Pioneer calls Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT), uses molecular markers to track and select soy seed lines for native genetics with […]

By FBC staff

Beef herd vaccinated for E. coli

Sep. 25, 2007 at 5:52 pm CDT

Top Meadow Farms, a commercial beef operation in Ontario and Saskatchewan, has laid claim to the title of the world’s first beef producer to vaccinate cattle against E. coli 0157:H7. Bioniche Life Sciences, the Ontario manufacturer of the vaccine, said in late August it had already sold its first order, […]

By FBC staff

Showers slow Alberta harvest

Sep. 25, 2007 at 5:14 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Harvest operations in Alberta continue to be slowed by scattered shower activity and the absence of warm temperatures, according to a crop specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre. “The harvest is stuttering in a number of regions with precipitation just enough to only allow for a couple […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Quebec ag receipts keep just ahead of bills

Sep. 25, 2007 at 3:47 pm CDT

Quebec’s farm revenue rose in the first half of 2007 compared to the same time in 2006 — an increase that stayed just ahead of a corresponding rise in expenses, the provincial statistics agency reported today. L’institut de la statistique du Quebec (ISQ) reported overall farm cash receipts of $3.32 […]

By FBC staff