Reading Time: 2 minutes The year-end financials for Canada’s second-biggest burger chain find its recasting of its beef as produced with “no added hormones or steroids” has so far been “positively received” by diners. The A+W Revenue Royalties Income Fund and A+W Food Services of Canada announced their fourth-quarter and year-end results Thursday, booking sales of $278.1 million for […] Read more
A+W ‘pleased with progress’ from no-hormone burger push
New seed flow lubricant to be only one allowed on corn, soy
Reading Time: 2 minutes With bees and other pollinators in mind, corn and soybean growers who’ve used seed flow lubricants when planting seed treated with neonicotinoid pesticides will have only one option this spring. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has rolled out new guidelines for corn and soybean planting which will permit only the use of Bayer […] Read more
PEDv hits more Ont. farrowing barns
Reading Time: < 1 minute The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, most often fatal to new young piglets, has appeared so far this week at three more farrow-to-finish operations in southwestern Ontario. Ontario Pork on its website reported two new cases of PEDv at farrow-to-finish barns in Perth and Wellington counties, confirmed Wednesday, along with a case confirmed Tuesday at another […] Read more
CN, Teamsters reach new deal to avoid conductors’ strike
Reading Time: 2 minutes Conductors, trainmen and yardmen for Canadian National Railway (CN) will remain on the job following an 11th-hour tentative agreement under threat of back-to-work legislation. “We commend the leadership of the (Teamsters Canada Rail Conference unit) for reaching consensus with the company and averting a possible strike,” CN chief operating officer Jim Vena said in a […] Read more
Taiwan grants access to Canadian bone-in beef
Reading Time: 2 minutes Correction from source, Feb. 5 — Taiwan has formally agreed to accept imports of bone-in beef and additional beef products from Canadian cattle under 30 months of age (UTMs). The agreement between Taiwan and Canada is set to take effect 30 days after its signing on Monday, the Canadian government announced Wednesday — thus pegging […] Read more
CN conductors may strike Saturday at earliest
Reading Time: 2 minutes The union for Canadian National Railway’s (CN) conductors, trainmen and yardmen has filed notice that its workers may hit the bricks by Saturday (Feb. 8) at the earliest. CN reported Wednesday morning it had received 72 hours’ notice from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) of its intention to have about 3,000 unionized CN staff […] Read more
Ont. dairy co-op buys Hamilton cheesemaker
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hamilton’s family-owned Salerno Dairy, a specialty Italian-style cheesemaker, is becoming part of Ontario’s largest dairy co-operative. Gay Lea Foods announced Monday it has reached a deal, effective Feb. 1, to buy Salerno for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1962 by cheesemaker Carmine Marzaro and his family, Salerno today makes hard, soft, semi-soft and shredded cheese […] Read more
Cereal herbicide approved for use in canary seed crops
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nufarm’s cereal herbicide Enforcer M has picked up approval for an expanded label allowing its use in canary seed crops, and its use on more weeds and in more tank mixes. Enforcer, a post-emergent herbicide previously labelled for use in spring, winter and durum wheat and barley, is applied from the three-leaf to flag-leaf stage […] Read more
Wendy’s calls for progress reports on stall-free pork
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian and U.S. pork suppliers feeding the Wendy’s restaurant chain now must file quarterly progress reports on how much of their pork is produced without the use of gestation stalls. The Ohio-based burger chain, which includes about 370 Canadian outlets among about 6,600 worldwide, announced in 2007 it would give preferential buying to pork suppliers […] Read more
AGI to take up GrainVac product line
Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain handling equipment firm Ag Growth International (AGI) has brought another Prairie manufacturer into its bin with a deal to buy the GrainVac product line. Winnipeg-based AGI closed its deal Monday to buy the GrainVac line from Swift Current, Sask. manufacturer Rem Enterprises, which has made and marketed GrainVacs for about 40 years. The manufacturing […] Read more
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