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Viterra announces support for Iowa cleanup efforts

Jul. 28, 2008 at 1:35 pm CDT

Grain handler Viterra and its subsidiary Can-Oat Milling are contributing $30,000 towards flood cleanup efforts in Iowa following devastating floods in the state earlier this month. Both companies have a number of key business partnerships in the region. The funds will be allocated to recovery initiatives in the city of […]

WTO trade talks extended briefly

Jul. 28, 2008 at 7:42 am CDT

Manitoba sees first west nile mosquito

Jul. 28, 2008 at 7:25 am CDT

Margins shrink less on larger farms: StatsCan

Jul. 25, 2008 at 1:02 pm CDT

By Statistics Canada

Drozd: $147 crude no surprise, but now what?

Jul. 24, 2008 at 12:46 pm CDT

By David Drozd

Crop prices up 40 per cent in May: StatsCan

Jul. 23, 2008 at 1:03 pm CDT

Prices farmers received for their commodities rose 14.1 per cent in May 2008 from the same month a year earlier, as significant gains in crop prices offset declines in livestock prices. Prices that producers received for crops were up 40.2 per cent in May compared with May 2007, continuing double-digit increases which began in November 2006. […]

By Statistics Canada

Nominations open for national ag awards

Jul. 21, 2008 at 3:49 pm CDT

Nominations are now open until Sept. 15 for the 2008 Canadian Agri-Food Awards of Excellence, meant to honour “innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs that are moving Canadian agriculture forward everyday,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Friday. The awards are presented each year in

By FBC staff

New loans up at Farm Credit

Jul. 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm CDT

Farm Credit Canada has posted another increase in the number and total dollar amount of new loans to farmers in its 2007-08 fiscal year. In its annual report, released Thursday, the federal ag lending agency listed $4.28 billion in new loans for the year ending March 31, up from $3.71 […]

By FBC staff

“Product of Canada” rules kick in Dec. 31

Jul. 15, 2008 at 3:53 pm CDT

New guidelines for food manufacturers who use the terms “Product of Canada” and “Made in Canada” will apply to foods produced after Dec. 31 this year, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced Tuesday. “By the end of the year, if a food is labelled ‘Product of Canada,’ this government is making […]

By FBC staff

Provinces, Ottawa complete $1.3B ag framework

Jul. 11, 2008 at 1:28 pm CDT

Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ag ministers have officially completed their multilateral Growing Forward farm policy framework, committing $1.3 billion in cost-shared funding over the next five years. Split 60/40 between Ottawa and the provinces, the $1.3 billion covers programming other than for farm business risk management (BRM), and is […]

By FBC staff