The federal government has named former Agricore United CEO Brian Hayward to the board of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Hayward is now president of Aldare Resources, the Winnipeg business consulting firm he formed in 2007 after the takeover of AU, then Canada’s largest grain handler, by No. 2 handler Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. […] Read more
Former AU CEO joins BDC board
Sask. food centre chief moves to canola
The manager of Saskatchewan’s provincial Food Industry Development Centre next month becomes executive director of the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission. Catherine Folkersen takes the new post starting July 28, the SCDC said in a release Tuesday. Raised in Ontario but with family roots at Bruno, Sask., Folkersen worked in the University of Saskatchewan’s department of […] Read more
Ont. dealership fined $100K over worker death
An Ontario farm equipment dealership worker’s fatal injuries in a forage harvester will cost the company a $100,000 fine, a provincial court ruled Monday. Weagant Farm Supplies of Winchester, about 50 km southeast of Ottawa, pled guilty Monday in the Ontario Court of Justice in Morrisburg to charges under the provincial Occupational Health and Safety […] Read more
Hagen renamed B.C. ag minister in shuffle
A former British Columbia agriculture minister will take on the portfolio again in a cabinet shuffle Monday by Premier Gordon Campbell. Comox Valley MLA Stan Hagen, who has been Campbell’s minister for tourism, sport and the arts since 2006, takes over from Pat Bell as minister of agriculture and lands. Bell, the Prince George MLA […] Read more
Canada’s 13th mad cow found in B.C.
Few details have been released so far about Canada’s 13th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), found in a cow in British Columbia. Details not yet available Monday in the CFIA’s announcement include the animal’s age, and the area of the province where it was found. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a release […] Read more
Man. pork co-op to shut assembly yard
The Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op plans to close its St. Boniface hog assembly yard this Friday after 43 years, as it plans a new location on Winnipeg’s outskirts. And in light of lower operating costs as a result, the co-op said it will lower its marketing fee starting July 7. The MPMC, in a release […] Read more
N.B. orchards, vineyards get rehab funding
Tree fruit and grape growers in New Brunswick will get almost $773,000 in federal and provincial funds to pull up old plants and trees and upgrade to varieties that are more productive, more in demand or both. “These investments will allow tree fruit and grape growers to be responsive to marketplace demands by removing varieties […] Read more
Don’t turn PKI pigeons loose: Fanciers
Farmers in Canada and the U.S. left holding flocks of pigeons after the reported bankruptcy of Pigeon King International shouldn’t just release the birds, a national fanciers’ group urged Monday. Ontario farm media reported last week that farmers in several provinces who had invested in meat pigeons through Waterloo, Ont. company PKI have now received […] Read more
Federal judge unties gag on CWB
In deciding how or if the Canadian Wheat Board should promote single-desk marketing of Prairie wheat and barley, the buck stops with CWB directors, not with the federal minister responsible, a federal court judge ruled Thursday. Federal Court Justice Roger Hughes of Winnipeg ruled that an October 2006 order-in-council, issued by then-federal ag minister Chuck […] Read more
Ag groups propose bridge over funding gaps
Leading up to the expected launch of the federal and provincial governments’ latest ag policy framework, several of Canada’s general farm groups have relaunched a proposal for a new program to cover what they say are gaps in that framework. Originally proposed in November 2007, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s AgriFlex proposal would build on […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
