Canola growers who buy Roundup Ready seed for 2009 will be charged license fees by the bag, not by the acre. Monsanto Canada announced Friday that it will drop its $15 per acre license fee for Roundup Ready canola technology, starting Sept. 1, 2008 for the 2009 growing season, in favour of a per-bag fee […] Read more
Monsanto to charge RR seed fees by bag
B.C. BSE case was five-year-old dairy cow
A five-year-old dairy cow from an unnamed region of British Columbia was Canada’s 13th case of BSE, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday. Though the animal was born well after Ottawa originally imposed its 1997 ban on the use of ruminant tissues in feed for ruminant livestock, CFIA said in a release that the […] Read more
Senate passes biofuel mandate bill
Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed the federal government’s biofuel bill, giving the government authority to create mandatory minimum renewable fuel content in Canadian gasoline and diesel. The government plans to have a five per cent renewable fuel mandate for gasoline by 2010, and a two per cent renewable content rule for diesel fuel and heating […] Read more
GreenField to produce waste-based ethanol
Ontario ethanol firm GreenField Ethanol has signed on for a project to produce ethanol from Edmonton’s municipal waste. The company announced Thursday it will work with the Alberta capital’s civic government and Montreal biofuel technology firm Enerkem on a $70 million facility, expected to produce about 36 million litres of biofuel per year using city […] Read more
CWB’s June PROs increase across board
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Canterra Seeds names new CEO
A marketing manager with Cargill’s Canadian grain handling, seed and ag inputs wing has been named the new CEO of Winnipeg’s Canterra Seeds. The company announced Thursday that Richard Kieper, marketing manager for seed with Winnipeg-based Cargill AgHorizons, will be Canterra’s new CEO starting in early August, replacing Ron Gorst. Kieper, who holds an MBA […] Read more
XL Foods to buy Lakeside Packers
U.S. meat giant Tyson Foods plans to sell one of the largest beef packing plants in Canada to an Alberta rival. Saying its Lakeside Farm Industries plant “no longer fits the long-term strategy of our company,” Tyson CEO Richard Bond announced in a release Wednesday that the company will sell Lakeside to XL Foods, owned […] Read more
New N.B. farmland development funded
The New Brunswick government has pledged $650,000 for a program to help farmers bring new land into production and improve productivity on ag land already in production. The New Brunswick Agri-Land Development Initiative will provide funds to help producers take on projects such as land clearing, land consolidation and land levelling, the government said in […] Read more
Financing lined up for E. coli vaccine plant
An Ontario firm’s planned scale-up of production for an E. coli vaccine for cattle is now fully financed, the company announced Wednesday. Pharmaceutical firm Bioniche Life Sciences of Belleville said it has picked up an extension on a pre-existing $7.6 million contribution agreement with Industry Canada from its Industrial Technologies Office. The amended agreement extends […] Read more
Canpotex to raise potash shipping capacity
Potash marketing firm Canpotex plans to spend over $500 million over the next four years to expand its export capacity over two Canadian west coast terminals by over 90 per cent. The company, which has offices in Saskatoon, Vancouver, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, is the jointly-owned offshore marketing arm of Agrium, Mosaic Canada Crop […] Read more
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