New Brunswick’s provincial government has put up a new, more detailed wind map showing areas best suited to wind energy projects — and zones that are off limits to wind turbines. The province’s new Technical Wind Power Potential map builds on the wind atlas released in March, targeting regions more precisely and removing zones such […] Read more
N.B. fine-tunes wind map
Bevo Agro says behind on bond repayment
B.C.-based greenhouse supplier Bevo Agro Inc. reported Monday that it’s in no position yet to pay back $5 million it owes on a bond it issued to a Vancouver private equity firm in 2003. The debenture issued to Banyan Capital Partners matured Sept. 24 and the $5 million principal is now due, Bevo Agro reported […] Read more
Agricore CEO, VP join Ridley board
Having dealt himself out of a job by merging his company into Viterra, Brian Hayward is now chairman of Winnipeg feed maker Ridley, Inc. Hayward, until June this year, had been the chief executive officer of Canada’s largest grain handler, Winnipeg-based Agricore United, but stepped down after helping coax Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the no. 2 […] Read more
Ottawa boosts 2007-08 CWB initials
Prairie wheat and barley growers can expect a harvest of adjustment payments in the next three weeks — and the Canadian Wheat Board is already pressing for more. The federal government today announced it has approved increases to the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2007-08 initial payments — increases of around 20 per cent for wheat and […] Read more
Crop prices drive farmland values: FCC
Higher commodity prices have been written into the values of farmland across much of Canada in the first half of 2007, leading to the country’s biggest overall increase in ag land values in five years, Farm Credit Canada reported Monday. The federal farm lending agency said in its farmland values report that the value of […] Read more
No cross-border travel for Sask. birds
A ban on movement of live birds out of Saskatchewan is among the latest biosecurity restrictions in place following last week’s confirmation of a strain of avian flu on a south-central poultry farm. The farm, found between the communities of Lumsden and Regina Beach northwest of Regina, is the centre of an “infected region” with […] Read more
No mediated solution for CN, grain companies
Mediation between six grain shippers and CN in the level-of-service dispute between the companies and railroad ended without a resolution, the lead shipper said Friday. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) said in a bulletin that the Canadian Transportation Agency will have to determine the outcome of the shippers’ complaint against CN. The shippers had filed […] Read more
Expanded Sask. biofuel agency gets start-up funds
The Saskatchewan and federal governments will invest $276,000 in a new agency to develop the province’s biofuel sector. Expanding its mandate beyond ethanol into other farmed fuels, the Saskatchewan Biofuels Development Corp. includes members of the former Saskatchewan Ethanol Development Council and representatives from the biodiesel sector and Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission. The new organization […] Read more
Biosecurity detector project funded
Probes fitted with high-tech signal generators may be developed to detect food safety and quality problems and air- and waterborne bugs and pathogens if new public investment at the University of Manitoba pans out. The federal/provincial/civic Winnipeg Partnership Agreement will put up $3.2 million for a biological and electrical biosensor lab and a biomedical imaging […] Read more
Smucker buys Carnation milk brand
Nestle has sold its Carnation canned milk brands and business in Canada to the Canadian wing of U.S. jam giant J.M Smucker. The sale includes the Carnation business in Canada, the rights to use the Carnation brand for its evaporated milk, skim milk powder and thick cream products in Canada, and a manufacturing plant at […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
