Farmers who are attempting to sue Ottawa for $17 billion over the dismantling of the single-desk CWB are once again exploring their options following a Federal Court of Appeal ruling in Ottawa. The Oct. 15 ruling upheld a previous court decision that rejected most of the claims contained in a $17 billion class action suit […] Read more
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Court upholds rejection of most CWB lawsuit claims
Vomitoxin proposal could hamper Canadian grain trade: experts
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The Canadian wheat industry hopes it has dodged a bullet that could have seriously affected trade. Late last year, a Codex committee was close to rubber-stamping new maximum levels for deoxynivalenol (DON), or vomitoxin. The proposal included a limit of two parts per million on raw cereal grains at the farm […] Read more
Chef makes gouda special of the day
Glasgow Glen Farms produces 16 flavours of cheese
NEW GLASGOW, P.E.I. — When Jeff McCourt wanted to buy a popular gouda cheese business in his home province of Prince Edward Island, he needed financing. He decided to sell cheese futures. Now those who bought those futures at $1,000 each receive their returns in cheese — six kilograms of artisanal gouda delivered twice a […] Read moreGMO labelling foes spend big on campaigns in Oregon, Colorado
(Reuters) — Opponents of GMO food labelling proposals on the ballot next month in Oregon and Colorado have contributed roughly US $20 million for campaigning against the proposed laws, nearly triple the money raised by supporters of the initiatives, campaign finance reports show. Both measures would require labels on foods made with genetically engineered crops, […] Read more
P.E.I. firm musseling way into new markets
MORELL, P.E.I. — It’s been 38 years since Esther Dockendorff shipped her first mussels from Prince Edward Island to Calgary, but she still re-members the address and postal code of that first customer. A lot has changed since her first shipment of fresh mussels to Calgary’s Billingsgate Fish Company. Today, Mussel King ships frozen, fresh, […] Read more
As clock winds down, CP Rail’s Harrison hunts for his dream deal
TORONTO/CHICAGO (Reuters) — Veteran railroad boss Hunter Harrison has won over many critics since taking over as chief executive of Canadian Pacific Railway, but he still has unfinished business — creation of a consolidated North American railway — and he is running out of time to do it. That might explain why CP, Canada’s No. […] Read more
Hog facility uses undercover video as training tool
An undercover video capturing poor treatment of pigs at a Red Deer assembly yard will be used as an employee training tool, says the chair of Western Hog Exchange. Brent Moen said staff and employees would go through the video frame by frame to help learn how to better handle hogs at the assembly yard. […] Read more
Get used to water, says climatologist
‘New normal’ | Analyst expects more wet springs for Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Growers in the eastern Prairies will need to keep their rubber boots handy for the next couple of decades, says an historical climatologist. “We are now in a new normal,” Evelyn Browning-Garriss, author of the Browning Newsletter, told the 2014 Oilseed & Grain Trade Summit. The new normal, which includes wet […] Read moreEPA dismisses neonics’ effectiveness
Planting soybean seeds with a neonicotinoid seed treatment offers zero yield benefits, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In a memorandum released Oct. 15, EPA’s biological and economic analysis division reviewed published data and EPA proprietary data on soybeans and neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides applied as a coating to the seed. The EPA determined […] Read more
Ex-Cargill manager fights attempt to keep him from rival
CHICAGO (Reuters) — Valuable trade secrets that Cargill Inc. claims were stolen by a longtime manager in its meatpacking division who quit for rival JBS SA are nothing more than basic butchery, lawyers for the employee said in court documents. Privately held Cargill, one of the top U.S. meat producers, is asking a federal judge […] Read more
