Bill Laidlaw has been named the new general manager for the Chicken Farmers of Ontario. Laidlaw has worked in not-for-profit and association management since 2000, most recently as executive director of The Biotechnology Initiative and the Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre. He also previously worked as the CEO for St. John Ambulance in Ontario and […] Read more
Ont. chicken farmers name new GM
Grain researchers owe CPR $871K: CTA ruling
The Western Grains Research Foundation is being asked to hand over $870,783 in funding it collected from Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) for the 2005-06 crop year. The foundation said in a release Monday that CPR has successfully appealed the Canadian Transportation Agency’s decision on how much the railway owed to the foundation in excess grain […] Read more
Grain helps hold up CN’s Q3 ledger
Rising revenue from grain and fertilizer, among other sectors, helped offset Canadian National’s (CN) substantial drop in forest products revenue in its third fiscal quarter, the company reported Monday. CN posted net income of $485 million, down two per cent from the year-earlier quarter ending Sept. 30, on “essentially flat” Q3 revenue of $2.02 billion, […] Read more
Atlantic Beef may get bailout: CBC
The cash-losing Atlantic Beef Products plant on Prince Edward Island may get up to $11 million in federal and provincial funds to keep running, according to a CBC News report Friday. The report said an actual deal may be two weeks away but quoted unnamed sources as saying the federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency […] Read more
Toepfer manager named Viterra VP
A senior manager from international ag commodities trader Toepfer International is Viterra’s new senior vice-president for international grain. Donald Chapman, who since 1996 had managed Toepfer’s commercial activity and risk management at its Asian regional head office in Singapore, will work out of Viterra’s Calgary office. Chapman has been in the grain industry since 1986, […] Read more
Broken hoist idles Sask. potash mine
A broken hoist at Mosaic Co.’s K2 potash mine at Esterhazy in eastern Saskatchewan will idle the active mine for about two weeks, the company said Monday. “This temporary shutdown may result in a loss of production of approximately 100,000 tonnes of potash,” the Minneapolis company said in a release. However, Mosaic expects to offset […] Read more
Alta. backs biogas project
A project to generate power and heat from livestock waste and improve water remediation in Alberta’s Peace River country will get over $904,000 in provincial government funding. The province announced Friday that Smoky Pork Development Ltd. will get funding through its Bio-refining Commercialization and Market Development program and its Bio-energy Infrastructure Development program, as one […] Read more
CN’s hopper car bookings can continue: CTA
CN can continue to run its advance car booking program for grain hopper cars while the Canadian Transportation Agency hears the complaint against it, the CTA ruled Friday. The railway’s advance booking programs are at the heart of a level-of-service complaint against it to the CTA, filed by the Canadian Wheat Board and five smaller […] Read more
Quebec funds agro-environmental R&D
The Quebec government has put up $2.7 million as part of a $4 million project to add research and development capability for agro-environmental goods and services at the Centre de developpement bioalimentaire du Quebec at La Pocatiere, about 90 miles northeast of Quebec City. The investment will allow the CDBQ to buy new, specialized equipment […] Read more
Canadian vintners to study HACCP
Five wineries are testing out a new HACCP food safety protocol for the Canadian wine industry. The Canadian Vintners Association on Friday picked up $312,000 in federal funding to develop an industry-wide system using the U.S.-developed Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) model. The five wineries are assessing the HACCP materials developed by the CVA […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
