Reading Time: 2 minutes Corrected, March 17 — U.S. farm co-op giant CHS Inc. is set to expand further into the Prairie ag input retail market as the buyer of 16 crop retail and fertilizer outlets up for mandatory sale. CHS announced Monday it will buy, for an undisclosed sum, the 16 outlets for which fertilizer and ag retail […] Read more
CHS to buy 16 Agrium retail, anhydrous outlets
Governments, Vancouver port propose measures to restart trucking
Reading Time: 3 minutes A package of measures drafted late Thursday by federal, provincial and port officials to end the trucking dispute at Port Metro Vancouver awaits a response from container truckers who’ve been off the job for up to two weeks. A 14-point “action plan” has been collectively agreed upon to restart “normal” marine container operations at Canada’s […] Read more
Canadian lamb co-operative near launch
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Lamb Producers Co-operative (CLPC) is set to start buying finished lambs this spring and launch a new marketing arm, dubbed the Canadian Lamb Company, this month. The co-operative, the first-ever federally incorporated national co-op, will own and oversee the Canadian Lamb Co. as its corporate marketing subsidiary. Four years in the making, the […] Read more
W. Manitoba feedlot building wrecked in fire
Reading Time: < 1 minute A cattle feeding operation in western Manitoba has lost its office and several equipment bays in an overnight fire. The fire department and RCMP from Hamiota, about 80 km northwest of Brandon, were called at 3:20 a.m. Thursday to nearby Hamiota Feedlot, RCMP said in a release later Thursday morning. The building housing the office […] Read more
Campari makes play in Canadian whisky
Reading Time: 2 minutes Staking a claim in the smoking-hot Canadian whisky market, Italian beverage giant Campari is poised to snap up what’s billed as the only independent whisky maker in Ontario. Gruppo Campari on Wednesday announced a cash deal to buy full ownership of Forty Creek Distillery of Grimsby, Ont. for $185.6 million. Milan-based Campari said Forty Creek, […] Read more
Manitoba moves to find space for ‘at-risk’ grain
Reading Time: 1 minute A grain bin listing service and “flexibility” in spring load limits on provincial roads are among the moves Manitoba plans to pursue to get “at-risk” grain out of harm’s way in view of the current grain freight backlog. The province on Wednesday announced it will launch a review of flood-prone areas to help farmers move […] Read more
U of Guelph to shut Kemptville, Alfred campuses
Reading Time: 3 minutes The University of Guelph plans to consolidate its agricultural academic and research operations by shutting its Kemptville and Alfred campuses by the end of next year. The university, which operates Ontario Agricultural College and Ontario Veterinary College, announced Wednesday it would wind down operations at the two satellite campuses and lay off over 110 full-time […] Read more
Farm groups hail field-levelling trade deal with Korea
Reading Time: 5 minutes Negotiations are officially completed and terms finalized on a free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea, with a long line of enthusiastic Canadian farm export sectors in their wake. A trade pact between the two countries has been in the works since they agreed to formal talks in 2005, but stalled for months at […] Read more
CN, CP cut producer car sites
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s big two railways recently cut 19 producer car loading sites across the West, even though farmers are using producer cars more than ever as they struggle to get a record crop to market. CP recently cut five sites, leaving 94, and CN cut 14, leaving 48. Farmers’ right to order and fill rail cars […] Read more
Railways expect to meet government’s order on grain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s big two railways expect to be able to meet the federal government’s new mandatory requirements for Prairie grain movement — but warn it will take further commitments all along the supply chain. Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway responded Friday to Transport Minister Lisa Raitt’s order-in-council, which immediately sets out minimum volumes […] Read more
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