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
GreenField to produce waste-based ethanol
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
Ont. puts up $4M for farmers’ market projects
The Ontario government has pledged $4 million over four years to help farmers’ market groups encourage and promote direct farm marketing to consumers. The new funding comes from a $56 million allocation in the March budget for “buy Ontario” and “buy local” initiatives, the province said in a release Tuesday. “By helping farmers’ markets and […] Read more
CWB posts new midge maps
Weather data and computer modeling will help the Canadian Wheat Board post new daily maps estimating how and when wheat midge will emerge across the Prairies. The CWB announced Wednesday that it will post midge emergence maps on its site every weekday until the end of July. The maps are “the only daily information source […] Read more
Ag secretary named public works minister
Quebec MP Christian Paradis, the federal secretary of state for agriculture, has been named the federal minister for public works and government services. Paradis’ new duties will be in addition to his work on the ag file, assisting Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday. Secretaries of state rank between ministers of […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
