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Nov. 3, 2008 at 12:54 pm CST

Ontario MP Guy Lauzon, who up until last month’s federal election was a Parliamentary secretary to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, has been named chair of the Conservative government caucus. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in announcing the appointment Monday, called Lauzon, 64, a “well respected figure among his caucus colleagues and […]

Oct. 31, 2008 at 5:07 pm CDT

Funeral services were held Thursday in Medicine Hat, Alta. for Arnold Tremere, a retired executive director of the Canadian International Grains Institute, who died Sunday of cancer at age 67. Tremere was CIGI’s executive director in Winnipeg from 1989 to 2002, following a seven-year stint as the institute’s first director […]

Oct. 30, 2008 at 6:30 pm CDT

Gerry Ritz is among those in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet who won’t need to call the movers. Ritz, a farming MP from western Saskatchewan, remained in the agriculture and agri-food portfolio and kept responsibility for the Canadian Wheat Board in Harper’s cabinet shuffle Thursday after the Oct. 14 federal […]

Oct. 30, 2008 at 5:03 pm CDT

A storied brand name in the Canadian farm tractor business is coming out from under other companies’ logos for the first time in about 20 years. Winnipeg’s Buhler Industries, makers of the Buhler Versatile and Genesis tractor lines, officially announced Thursday that Versatile will be the only brand associated with […]

By Dave Bedard

Oct. 30, 2008 at 4:14 am CDT

Scotiabank’s agricultural commodity price index lost “significant ground” in September alongside “broad-based” declines in wheat, barley, canola and livestock prices. The bank’s Scotia Economics wing reported on Tuesday that its overall Commodity Price Index lost ground for the second consecutive month in September, dropping back 6.8 per cent month over […]