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Toronto investment firm buys into restaurant, pub business

Dec. 26, 2011 at 5:42 pm CST

Better known in the insurance and reinsurance sectors, a Toronto investment firm that controls a major livestock feed maker has been cleared to diversify into feeding people also. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Thursday granted approval for the friendly takeover of Mississauga-based Prime Restaurants by Fairfax Financial Holdings, […]

Burned this year, funds wary of commodities in 2012

Dec. 21, 2011 at 11:57 pm CST

By claire Milhench

Aflatoxin feed recalls in U.S. point to tighter rules ahead

Dec. 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm CST

By Christine Stebbins

Live cattle access resumes to UAE

Dec. 21, 2011 at 3:16 am CST

Interest-free period extended on AgriStability overage

Dec. 19, 2011 at 3:20 pm CST

Chicago traders revolt at change in CME rules

Dec. 13, 2011 at 6:04 pm CST

Chicago pit traders are up in arms against a CME Group plan to use electronic trading to set grain and livestock closing prices, a move they fear will drive another nail in the coffin of open-outcry dealing. CME Group, already under fire from many traders for its delay in getting […]

By ann-saphir Julie Ingwersen

Food safety, ag inputs, meat names eyed in pact with U.S.

Dec. 7, 2011 at 8:34 pm CST

Canada’s livestock and crop producers are expected to see improved trade opportunities and streamlined clearances and product approvals through a pair of joint action plans with the U.S. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting Wednesday in Washington, D.C., laid out a list of specific goals for […]

Cargill plans job cuts worldwide

Dec. 5, 2011 at 6:17 pm CST

Citing the global economic climate, agrifood giant Cargill has announced plans to cut about 1.5 per cent of its worldwide workforce, about 2,000 employees, over the next six months. The job cuts are based on "recommendations from Cargill’s business units and functions as to how to best allocate resources, based […]

S. Sask. roads not cold enough for heavy trucks

Dec. 1, 2011 at 9:24 am CST

Truckers using secondary highways in a "large portion" of southern Saskatchewan won’t be allowed to load up to full winter weights yet. The province is usually able to open its applicable highways to heavier winter weights any day after Nov. 16 and no later than Dec. 1. However, the province […]

Lower overhead buoys Canadian farmers’ profits

Nov. 28, 2011 at 4:36 am CST

Canadian farmers’ realized net income amounted to $4 billion in 2010, up almost 30 per cent from 2009 following a 19.6 per cent decline that year, Statistics Canada reports. Lower operating expenses more than offset a small decrease in farm cash receipts in 2010, the federal statistics agency said in […]

By Statistics Canada