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Crops

La Coop federee set to go full Sollio

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After gently getting the Canadian public used to the idea, one of the biggest agricultural co-operatives in the world is set to make its rebranding official. La Coop federee announced Monday it will officially present Sollio Cooperative Group as its “new identity” on Thursday during the organization’s annual general meeting in Montreal. The co-operative, ranked […] Read more
Martyn Donnelly, regional manager, livestock production, Atlantic Canada; Judy Cairns, accounting manager, finance; and David Ross, sales manager, livestock production (l-r) mark the rebranding of their division as Sollio Agriculture outside their Moncton office. (Photo courtesy Sollio Agriculture)
Crops

Atlantic Farm Services takes sister firm’s new name

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Corrected, Dec. 6, 2019 — The former ag retail distribution and feed milling businesses of Co-op Atlantic are set to take the new name of their sister company. Sollio Agriculture, the agribusiness arm of Quebec-based La Coop federee, announced Monday its Atlantic Farm Services business is officially rebranding with the Sollio Agriculture trademark, which La […] Read more
F. Menard’s retail butcher shop at Ange-Gardien underwent a major renovation in July 2018. (FMenard.com)
Livestock

F. Menard’s pork industry assets cleared for sale

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Antitrust regulators have cleared the path for La Coop federee to take up a significantly larger, vertically integrated share of its home province’s pork packing, feed milling and hog production sectors. The agribusiness co-operative announced Thursday its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture arms have “received the green light” from the federal Competition Bureau to buy the […] Read more
F. Menard’s retail butcher shop at Ange-Gardien underwent a major renovation in July 2018. (FMenard.com)
Livestock

Olymel, Sollio to take up F. Menard pork, feed businesses

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The meat packing and ag input retail arms of Quebec’s La Coop federee are about to take a much longer reach in their home province. The agrifood co-operative announced Tuesday its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture businesses have an agreement in place to buy the hog breeding, pork slaughter and packing, grain sourcing and feed milling […] Read more
Fall rye flowering near Deerwood, Man. on June 7, 2018. (Allan Dawson photo)
Crops, Markets

Quebec rye production on the rise

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CNS Canada — Rye production was up in Quebec in 2018, one reason being producers supplying hybrid rye for feed to the province’s hog industry. “Feed was coming from out west, but now we’re starting to produce the seed itself here,” said Andre Lussier, who farms near St. Hyacinthe, Que. and is a director with […] Read more
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Markets

La Coop federee to rebrand agribusiness arm

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Crop and livestock producers dealing with the agribusiness division of Quebec’s La Coop federee can expect to see a new name in the game early next year. La Coop announced Sept. 25 it will change the name of the division — which today operates under the Elite and La Coop brand names — to Sollio […] Read more
La Coop fédérée and Maizex Seeds create partnership
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La Coop fédérée and Maizex Seeds create partnership

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La Coop fédérée has entered into a joint venture partnership with Maizex Seeds, a corn and soybean company based in Tilbury, ON. The partnership will have a broad, national presence, the organizations said in a release. Maizex Seeds produces and markets seed corn and seed soybeans, while La Coop fédérée produces and markets seed for […] Read more
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La Coop fédérée buys Cargill’s Ontario crop retail assets

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La Coop fédérée will soon become a much bigger player in Ontario’s crop retail business. Cargill announced today that it will sell its grain and crop inputs retail assets in Ontario to La Coop fédérée. The deal includes Cargill’s 50 per cent ownership position in South West Ag Partners, which includes nine grain and crop […] Read more
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Crops

Cargill selling Ontario grain, inputs businesses

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Quebec agrifood co-operative La Coop federee is set to stake a larger claim in Ontario’s grain and crop input sector with a deal for Cargill’s assets there. Cargill’s Winnipeg-based Canadian arm announced Thursday it will sell its Ontario grain and crop input outlets and its joint-venture stake in South West Ag Partners to La Coop […] Read more
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Crops

InVivo pursues co-op alliances to vie with grain, chemical giants

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Paris | Reuters — France’s InVivo wants to expand international partnerships with other co-operatives, including in joint buying of crop supplies and shipping fixtures, as it tries to compete with global grain trading and chemical firms, its CEO said on Wednesday. InVivo, a grouping of 220 agricultural co-operatives and one of the largest exporters of […] Read more

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