The news Kicking off the Ontario portion of his cross-country summer tour, Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced $844,000 for Egg Farmers of Ontario at a farm in St. Ann’s on Tuesday. The funds will be used to assist in the development of an electronic scan to determine the gender and fertility of... Read More
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A deal that would have seen the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) sold to a consortium that includes Fairfax Financial Holdings, pulse crop exporter AGT Food and Ingredients, and several dozen northern and Indigenous communities has fallen through, according to the company that currently owns the infrastructure. Omnitrax reached an agreement-in-principle... Read More
Claas continues to expand its dealer network in Western Canada. Claas of America and its Alberta Ag Centre flagship dealer marked the opening of a new location in High River on Monday. After opening locations in Taber and Crossfield in the last two years, the company says the location at High River will feature all... Read More
After delivering some big surprises in its seeding intentions report back in April, Statistics Canada moved more in line with market expectations in its seeded acreage report published on Friday morning, ahead of the USDA's latest acreage estimates. The report was based on a survey of approximately 24,500 farms between May 11 and June 12,... Read More
Oxford County MPP Ernie Hardeman has been tapped to lead the agriculture portfolio under Ontario Premier Doug Ford's new cabinet, unveiled June 29, as Ford took power. Hardeman has held the post previously, serving as minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs from 1999 to 2001 under then-premier Mike Harris. He has been an MPP... Read More
Dutch swine genetics company Topigs Norsvin officially opened a $15 million hog research centre in Manitoba on Wednesday. The company's Delta Canada facility is located near Woodlands, in Manitoba's Interlake region, which was chosen due to its isolation from other pig production and its proximity to Winnipeg's Richardson International Airport for shipping breeding stock and... Read More
The ripple effect from Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto continues in the canola seed business. Canada's Competition Bureau says it has approved BASF's purchase of Bayer's LibertyLink canola system on the condition that BASF sell its own Clearfield production system for canola. "The Commissioner of Competition concluded that BASF's acquisition of the Bayer assets would likely... Read More
Monsanto and Corteva Agriscience — the newly-named agriculture division of DowDuPont — say they have reached a licensing agreement that clears the way for Corteva to offer Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans under its new Brevant seed brand in Canada. The non-exclusive, royalty bearing deal also allows Corteva to incorporate the stacked trait that combines... Read More
The Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission (SaskCanola) is undergoing a change in leadership. The commission confirmed on Tuesday that Janice Tranberg has departed from the canola grower organization, after serving as executive director since January 2015. "We would like to thank Janice for her contribution to SaskCanola over the last three-and-a-half years," says chair Doyle Wiebe.... Read More
What's new? Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay set off on a cross-Canada trek this week, and will be making a series of stops — and expected funding announcements — along the way. The announced funds are part of the overall funding previously committed to the five-year federal-provincial Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP). We're... Read More