Insights and Stories on General

Apr. 14, 2009 at 3:10 pm CDT

Facing declining sales in commercial and consumer equipment such as riding mowers and leaf blowers, equipment giant Deere and Co. will merge that business into its ag equipment division. The Illinois-based company said Tuesday it will combine its agricultural and commercial/consumer equipment units into a single worldwide “agriculture and turf” […]

By Dave Bedard

Apr. 7, 2009 at 4:19 pm CDT

(Revised, April 9) — The federal/provincial Growing Forward ag policy framework will fund a new nationwide trade and market development program for Canadian farmers and agrifood exporters. The program, announced Tuesday, is a collection of five separate initiatives meant to ensure exporters have “the information and support they need to […]

Apr. 7, 2009 at 3:30 am CDT

The Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia governments have each co-signed their agreements with the federal government on the specifics of their funding through the new Growing Forward ag policy framework. Growing Forward is Ottawa and the provinces’ replacement for the previous five-year federal/provincial Agricultural Policy Framework (APF, 2003-08). The new $1.3 […]

Apr. 6, 2009 at 1:54 am CDT

Veterinarians, agrologists, custom pesticide and manure applicators and animal health technologists, among others, may now more easily take their qualifications from province to province as part of a new interprovincial trade deal. Chapter 7 of the provinces’ Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), dealing with labour mobility between provinces, took effect […]

Apr. 3, 2009 at 3:50 am CDT

The Manitoba and federal governments have co-signed their agreement on the specifics of funding for Manitoba farmers available through the new Growing Foward ag policy framework. Growing Forward is the national framework to co-ordinate federal and provincial agriculture policy, replacing the five-year Agriculture Policy Framework (2003-08) developed under the Chretien […]