Stories by Gord Gilmour - Canadian Cattlemen

Farmers Edge’s online event on March 3 included a congratulatory note from TMX Group, owner of the TSX. (Farmers Edge video screengrab)

Farmers Edge launches IPO

Digital ag firm makes first public share offering to big demand

Manitoba’s best-known digital agriculture firm is now a publicly-traded company. Farmers Edge, founded in 2005 in Pilot Mound, Man. by agronomists Wade Barnes and Curtis MacKinnon, has carved out a niche using field-centric data, artificial intelligence and its FarmCommand data management platform. CEO Wade Barnes called it an exciting day during an online press conference […] Read more

File photo of a farmed mink. (Konstantin Sokolov/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock

Canada’s mink farms brace for COVID

Producers have had time to increase biosecurity efforts at the farm level

By Gord Gilmour, GFM Network News November 27, 2020

Canada’s 40 mink farms are operating under heightened biosecurity requirements after reports of COVID-19 jumping from humans to mink in Europe. Alan Herscovici, an industry spokesperson who operates the website Truthaboutfur.com, said early reports out of Denmark and other European countries gave Canadian producers some time to prepare. “These farms have always had a certain […] Read more

General, Machinery, Markets, Weather

The rise of iFarmer

By Gord Gilmour, GFM Network News April 21, 2011

Three generations ago Canadian farmers got their market information from the local elevator and their weekly farm paper. A generation on, they shushed the kids and strained to hear the markets on the CBC’s noon-hour farm report. Just a generation ago, a handful took the electronic plunge and bought a DTN system that gave them […] Read more

Livestock

Editor’s pick: Manitoba Tory MLA calls for Manitoba TB strategy

By Gord Gilmour, GFM Network News October 13, 2009

The Winnipeg Free Press newspaper is reporting that opposition MLA Len Derkach is calling on the province to increase its support to cattle ranchers battling to prevent infected deer and elk from transmitting the disease to their herds. Derkach says ranchers in the area surrounding Riding Mountain National Park have been battling this problem for […] Read more

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Higher grain prices not source of higher food prices: report

By Gord Gilmour November 2, 2007

Food prices in Canada are up but directly linking this trend to higher grain prices is an over-simplification according to a new report by the George Morris Centre. The independent agriculture think tank, based in Guelph, Ont., says drawing a straight line between the four per cent increase in food prices over last year and […] Read more

Flatbread firm FGF buys Weston Foods bakery business

U.S. grains: Corn futures rally; pull soybean, wheat prices higher

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures hit near two-month high as cash markets firm

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Flatbread firm FGF buys Weston Foods bakery business

U.S. grains: Corn futures rally; pull soybean, wheat prices higher

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures hit near two-month high as cash markets firm

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Farmers Edge launches IPO

Canada’s mink farms brace for COVID

The rise of iFarmer

Editor’s pick: Manitoba Tory MLA calls for Manitoba TB strategy

Higher grain prices not source of higher food prices: report

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