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Competition Bureau to probe soaring food prices

Oct. 24, 2022 at 12:58 pm CDT

Reuters — Canada’s competition watchdog said on Monday it would examine factors impacting soaring food prices and whether more competition in the grocery stores sector could help lower costs for Canadians. Price rises for store-bought food have been outpacing the broader annual inflation rate for 10 consecutive months, and grew […]

Antitrust probe in ag inputs dropped

Mar. 15, 2022 at 4:09 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Buyer found for ag retailer Blair’s contested outlet

Dec. 8, 2021 at 10:25 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Co-op, Blair’s joint venture to sell one crop input centre

Jul. 7, 2021 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Elanco forgoes Canadian poultry insecticide rights for Bayer deal

Jul. 14, 2020 at 6:32 pm CDT

By Reuters

Court orders big ag firms to hand over documents in antitrust probe

Feb. 12, 2020 at 5:06 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — A Canadian federal court has ordered a group of major agriculture companies to hand over records and communications in an antitrust probe sparked by allegations some businesses tried to block online farm-supply startup Farmers Business Network (FBN). In a series of court orders issued Tuesday, Federal […]

By Kelsey Johnson

Probe eyes possibility of ‘co-ordinated behaviour’ in Big Ag

Feb. 7, 2020 at 6:03 pm CST

Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating leading agriculture companies for allegedly attempting to drive a California-based online farm-supply retailer out of the Canadian market. Documents filed in Federal Court show Federated Co-operatives, Cargill, Winfield United Canada, Univar Canada, BASF Canada Inc., Corteva and Bayer CropScience (and, by extension, Monsanto Canada) are […]

By D.C. Fraser

Competition Bureau probing big ag chem companies

Feb. 6, 2020 at 9:57 am CST

Reuters — The Canadian Competition Bureau said on Thursday it was investigating certain agriculture companies for alleged anticompetitive practices over allegations of trying to block an online farm-supply startup from doing business in Western Canada. The regulator did not provide details on specific companies involved in the probe, but documents […]

By Arundhati Sarkar Kelsey Johnson

P+H to challenge regulators’ request for elevator sale

Feb. 4, 2020 at 11:26 am CST

Grain firm Parrish and Heimbecker aims to keep its now-expanded Prairie elevator network intact against a proposed order from federal antitrust regulators. Winnipeg-based, privately-held P+H in September announced a deal to buy all 10 of the primary Prairie grain elevators built by agrifood giant Louis Dreyfus Co. between 1998 and […]

By Dave Bedard

F. Menard’s pork industry assets cleared for sale

Nov. 28, 2019 at 5:50 pm CST

Antitrust regulators have cleared the path for La Coop federee to take up a significantly larger, vertically integrated share of its home province’s pork packing, feed milling and hog production sectors. The agribusiness co-operative announced Thursday its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture arms have “received the green light” from the federal […]

By Dave Bedard

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