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Sep. 13, 2007 at 11:20 am CDT

An Irish multinational dairy foods and nutritional ingredients firm has bought Manitoba flax processor Pizzey’s Milling for an undisclosed sum. Glanbia plc, through its U.S. subsidiary Glanbia Nutritionals, said it plans to use its research and marketing structure to develop the international market for the flax ingredients Pizzey’s produces. The […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 13, 2007 at 10:25 am CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Husky Energy will soon begin operations at a new 130 million-litre-per-year ethanol plant in Minnedosa, Man., and is aggressively in the market for feed wheat supplies to run the facility. A company official said contracts for January delivery were just announced this week. Raymond Dyck, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 12, 2007 at 5:01 pm CDT

British Columbia today expanded its school fruit and vegetable snack program to 164 schools, providing B.C.-grown fruit and vegetables as occasional snacks for up to 57,000 students. The program, which started as a pilot in 2006 with 10 schools and expanded in January to 51, is delivered by the B.C. […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 12, 2007 at 5:00 pm CDT

The National Farmers Union is appealing to Ottawa to authorize a raise in initial prices for Prairie wheat, durum and barley for 2007-08. The federal government has responsibility for setting the initials, which are then posted by the Canadian Wheat Board. The CWB — which will review and recommend adjustment […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 12, 2007 at 2:55 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Wednesday’s session mainly higher as canola soared to fresh contract highs as heavy technically driven commodity fund buying boosted the market, traders said. Canola saw a very heavy trade with intermonth spreading augmenting activity. The total […]

By Don Bousquet