Canada’s transportation dispute resolution agency has tossed a complaint over rail service to Prairie grain handlers as too vague and lacking in “supporting facts.” The complaint to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), filed in May by the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA), was dismissed in an agency ruling released last week. The dismissal “is a […] Read more
CTA rejects Canola Growers’ rail service complaint as vague
Soy industry group taps Canola Council exec as chief
Canada’s new national soy industry body has gone to Canada’s other national oilseed industry body for its new chief executive. Soy Canada, which set up shop last month in Ottawa as a new Canada-wide organization representing the soybean value chain, on Monday appointed Jim Everson, vice-president of government relations for the Canola Council of Canada, […] Read more
Sun Media set to sell Ontario Farmer
Long-running weekly ag journal Ontario Farmer is among the titles on the block in Sun Media’s planned sell-off of its English-language Canadian newspapers. Sun Media, Canada’s biggest newspaper publisher and an arm of Montreal media and telecom giant Quebecor, announced Monday it plans to sell all 175 of its English-language daily and weekly newspapers and specialty titles to […] Read more
CWB plans Red River Valley grain elevator
The grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board has laid out plans for a fourth Prairie elevator — this time much closer to home. Winnipeg-based CWB on Friday announced it has picked a site half a mile south of Glenlea, Man., or about 10 km south of Winnipeg city limits off Highway 75, […] Read more
Dow Agro to offer Nexera as ‘commodity’ canola
Growers of Dow AgroSciences’ identity-preserved Nexera hybrid canola may be able to grow it off-contract next spring and drop it into the regular commodity market, through a new deal on offer from the seed and ag chem company. Dow on Thursday launched what it calls the Flexibility Agreement, which, unlike the company’s Nexera Canola Contract, […] Read more
PED strikes again in SE Manitoba
Manitoba has now booked its fifth hog farm with cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). The provincial chief veterinary officer (CVO) on Tuesday confirmed the case in a nursery finisher barn in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast. While the CVO didn’t give the farm’s exact location, the property is outside a five-kilometre buffer zone around two […] Read more
Prairie pulse processor rebrands
In the tradition of companies such as 3M and AT+T, Regina-based Alliance Grain Traders has taken its abbreviation as its new name. The company announced Wednesday it has formally completed its name change to AGT Food and Ingredients Inc., as per a resolution at the company’s annual meeting in June. “We feel our new name […] Read more
Running the cold-weather numbers
How much frost can your crop bear?
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s a matter of degrees and every one matters. Temperatures around St. Paul hit -10 C on Sept. 11, and that’s very unusual, said provincial crop specialist Neil Whatley. “That’s a pretty heavy frost, but there’s humidity in the air. The dew will protect a lot, especially those that are -2 or -3,” he said. […] Read more
Land values still rising, but at slower pace, Re/Max says
Severe weather and slipping crop prices haven’t yet dragged down Canada’s agricultural real estate values, which overall continue to rise, but at a relatively slower pace, according to Re/Max. The international real estate organization on Tuesday released its annual Farm Report, which follows 20 distinct ag real estate markets across the country. Prices in most […] Read more
Ont. farmers to get tax credit for donated food
Ontario farmers who donate products or livestock to community food programs such as food banks and school nutrition programs can now expect an income tax credit in return. The province on Monday unveiled its Food Donation Tax Credit for Farmers, which it bills as the only one of its kind so far in Canada. Farmer […] Read more
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