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Aiming to claim market share in the private-label food business, the maker of Shreddies, Grape-Nuts and Cranberry Almond Crunch cereals has bought a major B.C. processor of dried fruits, trail mixes and nut butters. St. Louis, Mo.-based Post Foods announced Monday it will buy Golden Boy Foods of Burnaby, B.C. for C$320 million, in a[...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed banning artificial trans fats in processed food ranging from cookies to frozen pizza, citing the risk of heart disease. Partially hydrogenated oils, the primary dietary source of the fats, have been shown to raise "bad" cholesterol. Reducing the use of trans fats could prevent 20,000 heart[...]

U.S. data showing a surprisingly large late-summer hog herd has done little to quell fears in rural America that a virus deadly to baby piglets could spread. The U.S. livestock industry was anxiously awaiting Friday's release of the Agriculture Department's quarterly hogs and pigs report on the nation's swine inventory over the past three months,[...]

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and soybean futures jumped one per cent on Friday as persistent heavy rains delayed U.S. planting of both crops, threatening production prospects. "Nobody wants to be short due to the planting issue. There is concern now that not everything will get planted," said Roy Huckabay, analyst for Chicago-based trade[...]

U.S. wheat ended more than one per cent lower on Wednesday in volatile dealings after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) April estimates for 2012-13 global ending supplies were well above analysts' estimates. Corn ended higher but below the trading session highs and soybeans turned down after an initial rally in reaction to the USDA[...]

BMO Financial Group said last week it will offer Canadian and U.S. farmer customers financial drought relief to help them get through one of the worst droughts to hit North America in more than 50 years. Toronto-based BMO said it is providing drought-hit farmers more access to capital, fee concessions, working lines of credit and,[...]

A veteran Hamilton-area MPP and former cabinet minister is Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's choice for minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs in a cabinet short on ag experience. Ted McMeekin, the MPP for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale, was sworn in Thursday as ag minister following the Oct. 6 election, which saw McGuinty's Liberal government reduced just shy[...]

Manitoba's deputy premier and finance minister Rosann Wowchuk, the first woman anywhere in Canada to be named as a minister of agriculture, has announced she won't seek re-election this fall. Wowchuk, who represents the northwestern riding of Swan River, told media as recently as February that she planned to run again in the Oct. 4[...]

Legislation blocking Ontario's farm workers from collective bargaining will stand, after Canada's top court dismissed a major union's court battle against the province's rules. The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday upheld Ontario's Agricultural Employees Protection Act (AEPA), which had previously been overturned at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2008. The top court dismissed[...]

Kory Teneycke, the vocal biofuels industry advocate who last year became Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s director of communications, is quitting his government post, according to news reports Tuesday from Parliament Hill. Teneycke, who was a research director for the federal Conservatives before taking the communications job, was executive director of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association[...]