This year’s Western Canada Farm Progress Show saw Canadian seeder manufacturer Bourgault Industries roll out three configurations of its new 3320 drill and offer a peek at next year’s rollout of its biggest seeder cart yet. In this episode of EQuipTV, also available at the Grainews site here, the magazine’s machinery editor Scott Garvey pays […] Read more
EQuipTV: Bourgault seeder cart aims to make bigger better
Vietnam now open to Canada’s live cattle, sheep, goats
In what the Canadian government calls a “milestone” decision, Vietnam has become the first Asian market since 2003 to accept live Canadian breeding cattle, sheep and goats. That means Canada may now compete for its share of a Vietnamese market for live ruminants estimated as worth nearly $50 million, the government said in a release […] Read more
Canola crush margins rising
Canola crush margins in Canada have steadily increased over the past week, thanks to ongoing demand from domestic processors, as well as a sharp decline in the Canadian dollar. Canola crush margins for the November/October 2011 contract are bringing $97.54 per tonne, $8.90 per tonne higher than just a week ago, according to ICE Futures[...]
Talks wrap up on free trade deal with Honduras
Canada has pledged funding to a raft of food security initiatives in Honduras on the same day as it announced a conclusion of talks toward a free trade deal. By itself a free trade deal is expected to secure a flow of Canadian agricultural goods toward the Central American republic, which has a population of […] Read more
Grants to back Alta. land conservation easements
The Alberta government has budgeted $5 million this year for a new grant program to help protect "ecologically important" private lands against development. The province on Wednesday launched the Alberta Land Trust Grant Program, which is to make grants available to land trust organizations to pay for conservation easements on private land, and to manage[...]
Viterra opens Ho Chi Minh City marketing office
The Asian subsidiary for Canada's biggest grain company has set up a new grains and oilseeds marketing office in Vietnam's largest city. "Our new office in Ho Chi Minh City is ideally located to facilitate further trade and service increasing demand in Vietnam, supported by local expertise and market intelligence," Don Chapman, Viterra's senior vice-president[...]
Whole Foods expands animal welfare rules to Canada
U.S. organic food retailer Whole Foods Market has expanded its animal welfare rating promotion to include livestock destined for the meat cases at its Canadian supermarkets. While not likely to make massive waves in Canada’s retail sector — the chain’s Canadian footprint today includes just four stores in Vancouver and two in the Greater Toronto […] Read more
Ag safety program launched for farm managers
Managers of crop operations with employees can use a new program, to be distributed by Cargill on behalf of Canada's main ag safety organization, to develop safety plans for their businesses. The program, dubbed SafetySense, is geared toward Canadian crop producers who may also have "multiple enterprises" such as cattle, processing, trucking or manufacturing as[...]
Southern Man. canola swathing underway
The swathers are rolling into canola fields in south-central and southeastern Manitoba and parts of the Interlake region, while winter wheat and fall rye harvests are also well underway, the provincial ag department reported Monday. Due to a publication ban in advance of a provincial election scheduled for Oct. 4, the province’s crop report, crop […] Read more
Viterra sheds bipolar operating model
Canada's largest grain company plans to rework its businesses around a worldwide top-down model rather than as a house split between the Great White North and the Land Down Under. Viterra on Monday announced new titles for most of its top executives, "formalizing its global structure" around the worldwide trio of its grain, agri-products and[...]
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