As Monday marks the start of Earth Week, Cleanfarms is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The organization started as a voluntary stewardship program in the prairies to collect empty agricultural plastic jugs and over the years has since expanded across Canada. In total, Cleanfarms has recycled approximately 126 million 23L-and-under plastic jugs since inception. The collection... Read More
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A shortage of butchers and issues with the current Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program has been a struggle for Canadian processors, says the Canadian Meat Council (CMC). To address the issue, the Canadian government has announced a three-year agri-food immigration pilot project to bring full-time, non-seasonal agriculture workers to Canada. The pilot will include policy... Read More
Protein Industries Canada (PIC) has announced its first call for proposals, allocating $40 million for co-investment into projects that will "position Canada as the centre of high-quality plant-based protein products and co-products," according to the group. "We are eager to collaborate with businesses, big and small, to co-invest in projects that have the potential to... Read More
Dairy giant Saputo has completed its transaction to purchase Dairy Crest, a United Kingdom-based dairy company. The final sale for £975 million (approximately $1.7 billion) was first announced on February 22, 2019, and finalized April 15, 2019. According to a news release, Dairy Crest manufactures and markets cheese, butters, spreads and oils, under leading British... Read More
La Broquerie, Manitoba-based HyLife announced today it is being bought by Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl (CPF) for $498 million. HyLife is a vertically-integrated pork production company, from feed processing, to hog production, and pork processing and distribution of pork products. HyLife employs over 2,500 people, and has processing plants in Canada, including Neepawa, Man.,... Read More
Less than two months into a pilot project, Saskatchewan RCMP have announced it will be expanding its Crime Watch Advisory Network. The project first came online near the beginning of March this year and was offered only in the southern part of the province. Due to a lot of interest across the entire province, the... Read More
The Province of Manitoba recently announced its recipients of the newly created Conservation Trust. Among those awarded part of the $2.2 million trust, were partners of the Kirkella Community Pasture Association’s Grassland Habitat Enhancement Project. The group, comprised of the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth, along with Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association (MFGA), and the pasture’s... Read More
Parrish & Heimbecker (P&H) has announced an expansion of its Hamilton grain terminal and flour mill to nearly double the current capacity. The shovels are already in the ground and the Hamilton site will include a second flour mill, which will make P&H the single largest user of Ontario wheat. “Canadian producers are known for... Read More
Dairy producers will have a new resource to go to for all things dairy come the summer. CanWest DHI, Valacta, and the Canadian Dairy Network have come together to form a new organization that will be known as Lactanet Canada. "Today is a milestone for our industry," says Lactanet chair, Barbara Paquet. “Lactanet is an... Read More
It's that time of year again when producers are being asked by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada (SCCC) to soil their undies! The play on words campaign is in its third year, and involves farmers digging a hole, placing 100 per cent cotton underwear in it, covering it up, and waiting a few months... Read More