Reading Time: < 1 minute Quebec’s provincial government will spend $14 million over the next three years on a marketing strategy to boost purchases of Quebec food products. The strategy, branded “Le Québec dans votre assiette!” (loosely, “Quebec on your plate”) is based on three points: encouraging Quebec consumers to consider buying Quebec products in general when buying groceries, supporting […] Read more
Quebec pledges $14M for Quebec-food strategy
ClearOut 41 Plus available for direct sale: FNA
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian farmers looking to buy the U.S. generic glyphosate product ClearOut 41 Plus will no longer need federal government permits to do so, Farmers of North America (FNA) reported Monday. Albaugh, Inc., an Iowa-based maker and distributor of ag chemicals, took over the Canadian registration of the product and has agreed to supply it to […] Read more
Butter, skim milk powder support prices to rise
Reading Time: 2 minutes Support prices for butter and skim milk powder will rise effective February 1, 2008, the Canadian Dairy Commission announced Friday. The support price for skim milk powder will increase from $5.9212 to $5.9835 per kg, while the support price for butter will increase from $6.8695 to $6.9316 per kg. Support prices are the prices at […] Read more
Japan’s Mitsui buys into Sask. crush plant
Reading Time: 2 minutes Japanese commodity trading company Mitsui and Co. has bought a 40 per cent partnership stake in Louis Dreyfus Canada’s planned canola processing plant at Yorkton, Sask. Brant Randles, president of Louis Dreyfus Canada, said Thursday that the partnership is “a positive step for everyone involved” and will strengthen the two companies’ long-standing business relationship. Louis […] Read more
Safety campaign offers equipment maintenance decals
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers can get up to 100 free new decals to keep notes on their farm machinery about regularly scheduled maintenance, through a nationwide farm safety program. The vinyl decals can be written on with a ballpoint pen to record the date, work summary and initials of the person doing the work, as a reminder for […] Read more
Husky ethanol plant hits startup phase
Reading Time: 2 minutes Husky Energy has finished construction and is headed for commissioning on the $200 million expansion of its ethanol plant at Minnedosa, Man. Husky CEO John C.S. Lau and several provincial government officials made the announcement Tuesday in Winnipeg. “We look forward to going to Minnedosa and officially opening the plant when it reaches full production,” […] Read more
U.S. rival buys Man. veterinary needle maker
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Manitoba firm that helped create the detectable veterinary hypodermic needles now widely used by livestock producers has been sold to its U.S. rival, ending patent fights between the two. The assets of Rivard Instruments of Winnipeg have been bought for an undisclosed sum by Neogen Corp. of Lansing, Mich., which owns needle manufacturer Ideal […] Read more
Lethbridge biogas power plant funded
Reading Time: < 1 minute A biogas processing facility planned near Lethbridge will use local livestock manure and food processing waste as feedstock to generate electricity, heat and methane gas, with $1.5 million in provincial start-up funding. The grant to ECB Enviro North America from the Alberta government’s biorefining commercialization and market development program and bioenergy infrastructure development program was […] Read more
N.S. food “micro-factory” funded
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nova Scotia Agricultural College will lead a project to develop and test a portable “micro-factory” to help small-scale food producers and processors get more value from their crops, with almost $1 million in federal funding. The federal government announced $950,000 for the Atlantic BioVenture Centre project on Monday. The micro-factory would be used to extract […] Read more
Crops’ viability for B.C. Peace to be studied
Reading Time: < 1 minute A five-year project to find the crop varieties best suited to B.C.’s Peace River region and its “unique” growing conditions will get federal backing. Peace-area MP Jay Hill announced Ottawa’s pledge Saturday of $1.2 million for the B.C. Peace River Cereal, Flax and Pulse Crop Enhancement project. The project will use crop trials to find […] Read more
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