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WCE close: Soybeans boost canola

Sep. 14, 2007 at 3:44 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) finished Friday’s session mainly higher. Strength in canola was associated with steady demand and the advances exhibited by CBOT soybean complex values, market watchers said. A firm Canadian dollar and pre-weekend hedging tempered some of the upward […]

U.S. to take older Canadian cattle, beef starting Nov. 19

Sep. 14, 2007 at 2:00 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Ottawa puts up $500M for non-grain biofuels

Sep. 14, 2007 at 11:11 am CDT

By FBC staff

Man. soybean growers prepare for harvest

Sep. 14, 2007 at 10:39 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Canada adopts farm animal genetics action plan

Sep. 14, 2007 at 10:34 am CDT

By Resource News International

Input dealers name new executive director

Sep. 13, 2007 at 3:29 pm CDT

The Independent Dealers Entrepreneurial Association (IDEA), a Saskatoon-based group of locally-owned crop input retailers, has named Nipawin, Sask. farm consultant Bob Evans as its new executive director. Evans, who has previously done advisory work for the Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers and is rostered with the Canadian Farm Business Advisory Service […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola falls on profit-taking

Sep. 13, 2007 at 2:56 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Thursday’s session mainly lower with canola pressured down by profit-taking, brokers said. Canola saw moderate activity with intermonth spreading a minor component of the trade. Total canola volumes were estimated at 7,321 contracts, down from Wednesday’s […]

By Don Bousquet

N.S. won’t fund Atlantic Beef plant

Sep. 13, 2007 at 1:47 pm CDT

Ag department officials in Nova Scotia who have studied the latest feasibility report on the Atlantic Beef Products packing plant in P.E.I. are advising their government not to put up cash to sustain the plant, CBC News reported today. CBC quoted Nova Scotia Agriculture Minister Brooke Taylor as saying Thursday […]

By FBC staff

P.E.I. names point person for potatoes

Sep. 13, 2007 at 1:18 pm CDT

Going beyond the traditional ag extension duties of its potato specialists, Prince Edward Island has created the role of a potato industry co-ordinator. Rachel Cheverie, the province’s integrated pest management (IPM) specialist at Charlottetown for the past eight years, has been appointed to the new role, which will include co-ordination […]

By FBC staff

N.S. gears up for Open Farm Day

Sep. 13, 2007 at 12:54 pm CDT

Forty farms in Nova Scotia will open their doors to the public during the province’s annual Open Farm Day on Sept. 23. The day will be based on the theme of “Buy Local…Eat Fresh,” in keeping with the province’s new Select Nova Scotia campaign to encourage consumers to buy locally-grown […]

By FBC staff