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Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm CDT

The Canadian Pork Council yesterday joined six other national hog farmer groups in calling for “immediate lifts” in farmer returns and wholesale and retail pork prices. Speaking from the World Pork Conference in Nanjing, China, the CPC and farmer groups from Britain, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 26, 2007 at 12:43 pm CDT

Robert de Valk, an Ottawa-based consultant on food regulatory issues, is the new Canadian government affairs director for the North American Meat Processors Association (NAMP). The group, which represents North American meat processors and their associates from offices in Reston, Va. (near Washington, D.C.) and in Ottawa, said in a […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 25, 2007 at 7:16 pm CDT

Calgary — Despite a year of food scares and non-stop headlines about E. coli in fresh produce, consumers in the U.S. aren’t re-thinking their acceptance of food with biotech ingredients. Those attending the 2007 Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference’s (ABIC 2007) public forum here at the University of Calgary earlier this […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:59 pm CDT

Fertilizer maker Agrium warns to expect further tightening in world nitrogen markets in 2008 as it closes its nitrogen fertilizer plant at Kenai, Alaska by the end of this month, for want of a natural gas supply. The Calgary company, one of the world’s biggest wholesalers of fertilizers, said in […]

By FBC staff

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