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Tighter regulations take effect for B.C. farmland reserve

Local governments' expanded role to take effect this fall

By GFM Staff March 13, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes New regulations governing how — or if — changes can be made to land’s status within British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) are now in force, but local governments get more prep time for their expanded role. The province on Thursday announced amendments to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) Act — having received royal assent […] Read more

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Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm May 4, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume that commercial activity,” said Louis […] Read more

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‘Veil of uncertainty’ shrouds Churchill’s shipping season

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm June 16, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Manitoba’s Port of Churchill is facing an uncertain grain shipping season, as ownership of the Hudson Bay facility is still up in the air, months after owner OmniTrax announced plans to sell the port and the railway that serves it. Denver-based OmniTrax announced in late 2015 it had accepted a letter of […] Read more

Delegates at the Indigenous Agriculture Summit got musical accompaniment to their lunch Wednesday at Regina’s Ramada Plaza. (Lisa Guenther photo)

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Guenther: Indigenous ag summit cultivates global ambition

By Lisa Guenther November 27, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Elmer Eashappie is an idea man. And on his mind today is an agricultural summit connecting First Nations groups worldwide to network and learn, all under the umbrella of Canadian Western Agribition. And that idea is closer to reality than one may think. Eashappie, an Agribition board member, is chairman of the Indigenous Agriculture Summit, […] Read more

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on support from fewer cattle placements

U.S. grains: Wheat surges on supply concerns, as soybeans firm on vegetable oils

Italy vetoes sale of seed producer to Chinese-owned Syngenta

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U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on support from fewer cattle placements

U.S. grains: Wheat surges on supply concerns, as soybeans firm on vegetable oils

Italy vetoes sale of seed producer to Chinese-owned Syngenta

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