Maple Leaf Foods voluntarily recalled five ham products last week after syringe casings were found at a meat processing plant in Kitchener, Ont. “The recall was initiated based on a syringe casing found visibly embedded in a ham found as part of routine visual product inspection,” said a corporate News release news. Maple Leaf said […] Read more
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CWB task force chair takes heat
Ottawa’s marketing choice task force did not analyze the benefits or dangers of ending the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly because that was not its mandate, MPs were told earlier this month. Nor did it analyze, verify or challenge wheat board claims that the monopoly provides between $530 million and $655 million in additional revenue to […] Read more
Proposal shows need for CWB: Measner
The proposed merger of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United drives home the need to maintain the single desk system, says the head of the Canadian Wheat Board. “I think it is an additional argument for maintaining the single desk,” said Adrian Measner, the board’s president and chief executive officer. “We can do things to […] Read more
Share prices higher for Pool, AU
Share prices for two prairie grain handlers rose last week after a hostile takeover bid on Agricore United by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Analysts say that’s because investors expect more activity, including the possibility of another company entering the fray. Agricore United’s price shot up 25 percent the day after the pool announced an unsolicited bid. […] Read more
Sask. fights tax rebels; changes law
Saskatchewan municipalities that withhold taxes they collect on behalf of school boards won’t receive grants they are due from the provincial government under legislative amendments introduced last week. Government relations minister Harry Van Mulligen said the law requiring one level of government to collect taxes for another was introduced decades ago and had to be […] Read more
Growing giant bedevils rural neighbours
COCHRANE, Alta. – As the tentacles of Canada’s fastest growing city spread into the Municipal District of Rocky View, the farming community did not realize what was coming until the squeeze was almost unbearable. From the mid-1990s onward, Calgary’s geographic and economic attractions drew people from all over. Large country residences sprang up seemingly overnight, […] Read more
Angus breed dominates Farmfair show
EDMONTON – Angus cattle were the big winners at Farmfair. A Red Angus bull owned by Bryan and Sherry Mackenzie of Pincher Creek, Alta., won the supreme champion male at the show. “It’s unbelievable. He represents everything the Red Angus is about. He’s pretty hard to match for a bull his character and type,” said […] Read more
Sask. benefits most from CAIS program
The Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization program may be the program Saskatchewan farmers love to hate, but it has sent considerably more money into that province than any other. According to figures presented to the House of Commons agriculture committee last week, almost 31 percent of CAIS spending has gone into Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan producers have received […] Read more
Red Deer county fights for land
RED DEER – The unprecedented and unplanned-for growth in many Alberta communities is overwhelming municipal planners. But rather than building more acreage communities, Calgary alderman Rick McIver thinks people should be encouraged to live in the city in an environmentally sustainable way with proper sewage treatment. One solution is to squeeze more people into an […] Read more
American firm to build biofuel plant in Alberta
An American investment and energy firm announced Nov. 13 it will build a massive 1.36 billion litre biofuel facility in Alberta. Curtis Chandler, president of Dominion Energy, said the refinery would include a 454 million litre ethanol facility, a 454 million litre canola oil crush facility and a 454 million litre biodiesel facility. The plant […] Read more
