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Sask. beats feds’ target for EFP uptake

Sep. 21, 2007 at 11:15 am CDT

Saskatchewan farmers have beaten Ottawa’s expectations for the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) program by almost 40 per cent so far. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Mark Wartman, his provincial counterpart, said yesterday in Regina that 9,000 Saskatchewan farms have completed EFPs in the past two years, well past the […]

Man. loans for small-scale energy projects

Sep. 20, 2007 at 11:34 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Retail promotions tout Prairie wheat

Sep. 20, 2007 at 5:05 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Manitoba fertilizer prices higher than U.S.: KAP

Sep. 20, 2007 at 3:48 pm CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola falls on strong loonie

Sep. 20, 2007 at 2:11 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Monitoring continues for Asian soy rust

Sep. 20, 2007 at 11:38 am CDT

(Resource News International) Canada continues to monitor its soybean crops very closely for any signs of the Asian soybean rust disease, but so far no viable spores have been found, said an Ontario provincial crop specialist. “There has not yet been a confirmed case of Asian soybean rust in Ontario,” […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Ont. soy harvest underway, corn on hold

Sep. 20, 2007 at 11:32 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Ontario’s soybean harvest is about to gear up while the grain corn harvest is still a few weeks away, according to a provincial cereals specialist. “In terms of the soybean harvest in Ontario, it is full steam ahead where possible,” said Peter Johnson, a cereal specialist […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Canadian pork industry presses China on ban

Sep. 20, 2007 at 11:10 am CDT

(Resource News International) Efforts are underway to reinstate pork exports to China from the Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Man., said an official with the Canadian Pork Council. “It was certainly a surprise that pork from Maple Leaf was banned by China, given that a number of countries which have […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Maple Leaf deal brings ham jobs: UFCW

Sep. 19, 2007 at 5:34 pm CDT

A new contract for workers at a Maple Leaf plant in Winnipeg will mean the shifting of 550 jobs to a new ham boning line there, according to the workers’ union. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 working at Maple Leaf’s Lagimodiere Boulevard meat processing […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola down on profit-taking

Sep. 19, 2007 at 4:46 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Wednesday’s session mixed with canola pressured down by profit-taking in response to early declines in Chicago Board of Trade soy complex futures, brokers said. Canola saw heavy trade with intermonth spreading enhancing activity. The total canola volume was estimated […]

By Don Bousquet