FBC Staff

Reading Time: < 1 minute Federal, provincial and city funding will support new Winnipeg laboratories and equipment for research on functional foods, nutraceuticals and other health products. The Winnipeg Partnership Agreement this week granted $800,000 to the Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) at St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre. “The enhanced facility will enable CCARM […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wheat values have retreated in the new 2008-09 pool return outlooks (PROs) from the Canadian Wheat Board as wheat harvests get underway on the northern half of the globe. The CWB, in its 2008-09 PROs released Thursday, show nearly all wheat values down by $11 per tonne compared to June levels, putting No. 1 Canada […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Horticultural Council’s on-farm food safety certification program for growers of fresh fruit and vegetables will launch Sept. 1, the council announced Thursday. In a release, the CHC noted that growers’ customers may then request that the growers have program certification, to ensure that the council’s on-farm food safety (OFFS) manuals are being followed. […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute A possible potash miners’ strike now looms over PotashCorp as the Saskatchewan fertilizer firm posts its highest quarterly earnings ever. Saskatoon-based Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan on Thursday racked up net income of $905.1 million (all figures US$) on $2.62 billion in sales in the second quarter (Q2) ending June 30, up from $285.7 million on […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg grain company James Richardson International (JRI) has put up a major pledge to rebuild the oldest major farm structure in Saskatchewan. JRI on Wednesday pledged $50,000 toward the Bell Barn Society of Indian Head‘s $1 million reconstruction and site development project, and will pledge a further 50 cents for every dollar pledged by other […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Alliance Grain Traders, a Regina income fund that owns pulse processing operations in three countries, has inked a deal to buy another fellow processor close to home. Tradewind Commodities, which AGT describes as a “leading pulse and special crops processor” at Milestone, Sask., about 60 km due south of Regina, has signed a memorandum of […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. seed and chemical giant Monsanto has named one of its U.S. regional directors to lead the company’s Canadian business operations. Lisa Safarian, currently the parent company’s regional business director for its north/central region based in St. Louis, Mo., will move to Winnipeg next month to become president and general manager of Monsanto Canada. Safarian, […] Read more