Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer Buhler Industries is reducing its workforce and paring back production ahead of an expected drop in farm incomes. The company, whose brands include Versatile tractors and […] Read more
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Ag equipment maker Buhler cutting production, staff
Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers
CNS Canada — Wet weather may have cost western Canadian producers 20,000 acres of sunflowers last year, according to one industry watcher who’s hopeful 2015 will be a little kinder. […] Read more
CWRS wheat bids rise with U.S. futures
CNS Canada — Cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat across the Prairies generally moved higher during the week ended Friday. Average CWRS prices gained about $7-$9 per […] Read more
U.S. grains: Soy hits one-month high on soymeal gains, NOPA data
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans climbed to a one-month peak on Tuesday, lifted by a three per cent spike in soymeal futures and data showing near-record domestic crushings of […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Profit-taking slams CME live cattle, hogs
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished sharply lower on Tuesday on profit-taking following Friday’s rally, traders said. February closed 1.4 cents per pound lower at […] Read more
Burger King, Tim Hortons owner posts loss on deal costs
Toronto | Reuters — Restaurant Brands International Inc., formed out of Burger King’s takeover of coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons last year, saw robust quarterly sales growth at both […] Read more
CP engineers, conductors halt strike
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and its unionized conductors, engineers, trainmen and yardmen agreed Monday to binding arbitration in their contract talks, ending a strike the day after it began. The […] Read more
Railway back-to-work legislation going to Commons
Back-to-work legislation to halt a day-old strike by engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is scheduled for introduction Monday in the House of Commons. Federal Labour Minister Kellie […] Read more
U.S. labour secretary to help reach West Coast port deal
Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez will travel to California to help broker an agreement between shipping companies and dockworkers in a dispute that has led […] Read more
S. Korea blocks Canadian beef again over BSE case
Seoul | Reuters –– South Korea has halted imports of Canadian beef after Canada on Friday confirmed its first case of mad cow disease since 2011, the South Korean agriculture […] Read more
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