The marketing division of Ontario Pork has put up money to offer partial reimbursement to hog farmers left unpaid in the wake of Quality Meat Packers’ bankruptcy. The offer, to […] Read more
Ont. Pork offers partial payments after packer bankruptcy
Sask. to release southern Crown habitat for sale
Updated, May 15 — Over 1.8 million acres of Crown wildlife habitat in southern Saskatchewan may soon be up for sale under a new provincial land management plan. The province […] Read more
Former Sask. ag minister won’t run again
Bob Bjornerud, the southeastern Saskatchewan farmer who served almost five years as the province’s agriculture minister, has confirmed his current term in office will be his last. Bjornerud announced Monday […] Read more
N.S. eyes environmental fee for tractor tires
Nova Scotia’s government is considering adding a “modest” environmental fee on the sale of new farm tractor tires, as part of a broader plan to cut back the amount of […] Read more
Bimbo’s Canada Bread takeover gets federal approval
Mexican bakery giant Grupo Bimbo’s proposed takeover of Canada Bread is expected to close as planned on May 23 after clearing its last regulatory hurdle. The Toronto company, 90 per […] Read more
PEDv found in hogs on second SE Manitoba farm
A finisher operation in Manitoba’s livestock-intensive southeast has been confirmed as the second farm in the province to host hogs with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). According to the office of […] Read more
Feds won’t back national pullet marketing agency
The federal government has found the case for a national pullet marketing agency “not compelling” enough to grant the wish of a nationwide pullet producers’ group. A spokesperson for federal […] Read more
Toronto’s Quality Meat Packers officially bankrupt
One of the last remnants of Toronto’s “Hogtown” past has formally gone bankrupt, in a move expected to permanently close the doors and strip out the assets at Quality Meat […] Read more
BQ ag critic officially seeking party leadership
Bloc Quebecois MP Andre Bellavance, the party’s ag critic and a former vice-chair of the Commons agriculture committee, is officially in the running for the party’s leadership. Bellavance, 49, a […] Read more
Feds’ grain freight legislation heads to Senate
UPDATED, May 30, 2014: The federal government’s legislative package to tighten the terms of grain freight service agreements between shippers and railways has cleared the House of Commons. Bill C-30, […] Read more
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