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Jaylor is already marketing Jaylor/MMI TMR units such as this H1950. (Jaylor photo)

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery

Jaylor to buy U.S. TMR mixer manufacturer

By Country Guide Staff April 6, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Southern Ontario feed mixer manufacturer Jaylor plans to expand its total mixed ration (TMR) product lineup by buying a U.S. competitor. Jaylor, based at Orton, Ont., about 30 km north of Guelph, announced Wednesday it has bought a controlling stake in Colorado manufacturer MMI International, previously known as Mohrlang Manufacturing, for an undisclosed sum. “For […] Read more

A YourLink tower outside Weyburn, Sask. (YourLink.ca)

General, Machinery, Weather

Wireless providers ordered to set up alert system

By Country Guide Staff April 6, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s wireless providers have until April 2018 to set up wireless public alerting systems on LTE networks. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Thursday issued a directive to that effect to all wireless service providers. The alert system would allow emergency management officials to warn Canadians via mobile devices of “dangers to life […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Lactalis still short in bid to delist Parmalat

By Reuters April 4, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Milan | Reuters — France’s Lactalis has not secured the 90 per cent stake in Parmalat it needed to press ahead with plans to delist the Italian food company, a filing showed Tuesday. On the last day of an extended bid on shares it did not already own, the French dairy group reached an overall […] Read more

Jim Pattison, shown here second from right with the Quality Foods partners, has taken majority control of the Quality Chain. (QualityFoods.com)

Crops

Pattison takes up B.C. grocery chain Quality Foods

By Country Guide Staff April 3, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes The owner of Save-On Foods and other Canadian grocery chains will expand its overall market share on Vancouver Island with majority control of the Quality Foods chain. The Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group was announced last week as the new controlling shareholder in Quality Foods, buying up the interests of founding partners Ken Schley and John […] Read more

Crops, Dairy Cattle, Reuters

Danone wins antitrust approval to buy WhiteWave

By Diane Bartz April 3, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Washington | Reuters — French food group Danone has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy U.S. organic food producer WhiteWave Foods, the Justice Department said on Monday. To win approval for the US$10.4 billion deal, Danone agreed to sell its leading U.S. organic yogurt business Stonyfield Farms, the department said. Danone did not immediately reply […] Read more

General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford recalls F-250s that could roll while in park

By Reuters April 1, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute New York | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling about 52,600 F-250 pickup trucks sold in the U.S. and Canada because the vehicles could roll after the driver moves the automatic transmission lever into park position, the company said on Saturday. The recall, the third announced by Ford this week, affects 2017 model year […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Dairy Cattle

Ukraine farmers examine Canadian agriculture co-ops

By Country Guide Staff March 31, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute A delegation of Ukrainian farmers were visiting agriculture co-ops this week, looking to see if the approach can benefit their grain businesses in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In Ontario they visited Agris Co-op and Great Lakes Grain in Chatham, Agrico fertilizer storage outside London, an Agromart retail operation in Wellburn, and the Donkers’ dairy goat farm […] Read more

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau in the House of Commons March 22. (Budget.gc.ca via YouTube)

General

Agrifood a pillar in federal budget’s ‘innovation’ plan

By Country Guide Staff March 23, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government’s latest budget puts up Canada’s agrifood sector as one of six “key areas” to benefit from a new national “Innovation and Skills Plan.” Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Wednesday unveiled a budget projecting $330.2 billion in expenses in 2017-18 against budgetary revenues of $304.7 billion, for a $28.5 billion deficit. The […] Read more

General, Machinery

Saskatchewan cuts farm fuel tax exemptions in budget

By Country Guide Staff March 22, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Purple gas” is about to become a quaint old figure of speech for Saskatchewan farmers as the provincial tax exemption for bulk gasoline for farm use ends April 1. The provincial government on Wednesday rolled out a budget designed to dial back the province’s reliance on resource revenue in the face of slumping markets for […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Lactalis short of threshold to delist Parmalat

By Reuters March 21, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Milan | Reuters — France’s Lactalis failed to reach the 90 per cent stake in Parmalat it required to proceed to delist the Italian food company in the last day of a buyout offer, a filing by the Milan bourse showed Tuesday. Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy firm, bought 15.11 per cent of the shares […] Read more

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