Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatoon’s Prairieland Park on Monday launched a $5.6 million plan to build dedicated space for livestock events and related trade shows. The planned 20,000-square foot building expansion will allow the park’s multi-building Trade Centre to be used exclusively as conference and trade show space, ending the costly down-time needed to set up multi-use buildings for […] Read more
Prairieland Park to add livestock space
Viterra names corporate development VP
Reading Time: < 1 minute An investment banker with experience in mergers and acquisitions is the new vice-president of corporate development for Canada’s biggest grain handler. Viterra on Monday announced Andrew Muirhead will lead the company’s “strategic business development and growth.” Muirhead, who starts immediately, will operate out of the company’s Calgary office. Muirhead was previously a vice-president and director […] Read more
Chicken plant fined over 2006 blast
Reading Time: < 1 minute A methane explosion that killed a worker at a southern Ontario chicken processing plant in 2006 led to a $150,000 fine for the company Monday. Sure Fresh Foods of Bradford pled guilty Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice in nearby Barrie to charges under the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act. The April 7, […] Read more
Western Sask. water projects funded
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Saskatchewan and federal governments on Monday announced $2.3 million to support six water projects in western Saskatchewan, ranging from feasibility studies to the laying of supply pipes. The approved projects include five research projects and a regional pipeline project, all of which are either already underway or complete. Among them are: a review of […] Read more
Solo cleared for Clearfield lentils
Reading Time: < 1 minute BASF Canada has picked up registration for its Group 2 herbicide Solo to be used in Clearfield lentil crops. The imazamox herbicide is already approved for control of 10 grasses and eight broadleaf weeds in field peas, Clearfield canola and, last week, Clearfield sunflowers. The company said the registration will allow lentil growers more rotation […] Read more
Dow to sell strawboard plant in pieces: MCO
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dow Chemical Canada has stopped seeking buyers for its strawboard plant at Elie, Man., and will instead sell the plant’s press equipment to foreign buyers, the Manitoba Co-operator reports. The Jan. 3 issue of the farmers’ newspaper quotes a spokesperson for the chemical company as saying the plant’s pressboard and associated machinery has been sold […] Read more
Ag communicator Ginty Jocius, 61
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ginty Jocius, creator of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and a renowned pioneer in Canada’s agriculture communications sector, died Wednesday in Guelph of complications from brain cancer. Jocius, 61, founded his self-named marketing and communications company in Guelph in 1982, specializing in agricultural products and services and including a roster of well-known clients across the continent. […] Read more
Barley deal with CWB “not achievable”: WGEA
Reading Time: 2 minutes Western Canada’s biggest grain elevator companies have weighed in on the Canadian Wheat Board’s proposed barley pricing option by calling for “the complete deregulation of barley as soon as possible.” The Western Grain Elevator Association, which as recently as August 2006 said it had “chosen to stay out of the debate concerning the future of […] Read more
Ont. ag retailer to consolidate sites
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fertilizer company Agrico Canada, through its joint venture Northumberland Grain in southern Ontario, has bought a neighbouring ag retailer with plans to consolidate three outlets down to two. The company, 50 per cent co-owned by Agrico with Dexter and Karen Harder, has bought Hunco Farm Supply, an ag input, feed and farm supply dealer at […] Read more
Approval paves way for Clearfield sunflowers: BASF
Reading Time: 2 minutes Approval of a herbicide for use on Clearfield sunflowers is expected to clear the way for the Clearfield sunflower system this spring. BASF Canada on Thursday announced it has picked up minor-use registration for its Group 2 herbicide Solo to be used in Clearfield sunflower crops. The imazamox herbicide is already approved for control of […] Read more