Reading Time: < 1 minute Grocery giant Loblaw (Loblaw Companies Limited) and parent company George Weston Limited announced yesterday a $500 million settlement had been reached concerning their involvement in a bread price-fixing scandal.
Loblaw and parent company to pay out $500 million in bread price fixing settlement
Federal government pledges $8.6 million to Dairy Farmers of Canada
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) will receive up to $5 million over five years to “advance sustainability and public trust, leveraging the proAction quality assurance program,” a federal news release said, and up to $3.57 million over five years to strengthen its DairyTrace cattle traceability system.
Semi-finalists announced in cattle methane reduction challenge
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thirteen semi-finalists were announced today in a federal challenge to come up with economically viable and scalable methane-reduction practices for beef and dairy cattle.
Ag ministers meeting covers risk management, pesticides, animal disease
Reading Time: < 1 minute Business risk management, pesticide management and animal disease preparedness were among topics discussed by provincial, federal and territorial ministers of agriculture at their annual meeting this week.
MNP to launch agronomy practice
Company to consolidate six agronomy firms under MNP umbrella
Reading Time: < 1 minute MNP will consolidate six Prairie agronomy firms into its own practice, the accounting and professional services company announced today.
Precision livestock farming could fine-tune feed efficiency ‘equation’
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Belgian researcher says precision technology can help farmers fine-tune animal feed consumption, which would increase profits, improve animal welfare and lower environmental effects.
Swine genetics company Genesus in receivership
Reading Time: < 1 minute A receivership order filed June 12 in the Court of Kings Bench in Winnipeg has appointed BDO Canada Limited as receiver and manager for Genesus Inc., Genesus Genetics and Can-Am Genetics, Inc.
Federated Co-op cardlocks “fully operational” company says
A "cybersecurity incident" led to the shutdown of some cardlocks and affected inventories at some grocery stores
Reading Time: < 1 minute Federated Co-op says it's opening more cardlocks every day after a "cybersecurity incident" late last week, the company said on social media yesterday evening.
United Farmers of Alberta buys stake in Canterra Seeds
Reading Time: < 1 minute United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) announced today it had purchased nearly 1.3 million shares in Winnipeg-based Canterra Seeds.
Some Co-op services still down after “cybersecurity incident”
Open cardlocks not currently selling dyed fuels, company says
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thursday, Federated Co-op Ltd. posted on X that it was "experiencing a cybersecurity incident" that was affecting some internal and customer-facing systems at cardlock and retail Co-op locations. It had shut down some systems as a precaution and had brought in experts, the company added.
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