Loveday mushrooms on a 2016 episode of TV cooking show “Great Tastes of Manitoba.” (Great Tastes of Manitoba video screengrab via YouTube)

U.S. mushroom giant buys major Manitoba grower

Loveday Mushroom Farms joins South Hill Champs

A major player in the North American mushroom business expects to expand its reach in the U.S. Midwest and Canada’s Prairies with a deal for a storied Winnipeg producer. South Mill Champs, formed in 2018 from the merger of Philadelphia-area producer South Mill and Aldergrove, B.C.-based Champs Mushrooms, announced Tuesday it has expanded to include […] Read more

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson listens as attorney Brent Wisner, not shown, speaks about his condition at trial in San Francisco on July 9, 2018. (File photo: Josh Edelson/Pool via Reuters)

Bayer loses California appeal of Roundup verdict

Damages payable to plaintiff are further reduced

Reuters — Bayer AG failed to persuade a California appeals court to overturn a verdict favouring a school groundskeeper who claimed its Roundup weed killer caused his cancer but reduced the amount of damages by 74 per cent, to US$20.5 million. The decision by the California Court of Appeal came after a San Francisco jury […] Read more


More opportunities to meet innovation in agriculture online

Ag in Motion Special Event Feature

With so many ways to meet agricultural innovation at Ag in Motion Discovery Plus, it’s hard to believe the show has even more to offer — but it does. The Innovations Program, Field of STARS, and AIM Lounge provide additional opportunities for registered guests to engage virtually. The Innovations Program, which returns to Ag in […] Read more

Nutrien Ag Solutions is one of the regular Ag In Motion exhibitors that has established plots this summer at the AIM farm show site near Lanigan, Sask. These plots of canola and corn will be some of those featured during the virtual AIM show July 21 to 25.

The show must go on(line)

Ag In Motion Discovery Plus will be as close to the real thing as possible

You may not physically be in Lanigan, Sask., July 21 to 25 this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still spend at least a few hours, if not a few days, next week checking out new products and new technology at the sixth annual Ag In Motion (AIM) farm show. In keeping with COVID-19 […] Read more


This Vaderstad drill, pulled by a Case IH track tractor, helped seed part of the Field of Excellence field-scale applied research plot where variable-rate seed and fertility treatments are being evaluated.

Ag in Motion Field of Excellence goes virtual

While some 30,000 farmers from across Western Canada won’t be converging on the Ag In Motion (AIM) farm show site near Lanigan, Sask., that doesn’t mean all is quiet on the 640-acre Discovery Farm site, which has hosted Western Canada’s largest outdoor farm show for the past six years. Discovery Farm is the name of […] Read more

Join us for virtual Field of STARS

Ag in Motion Special Event Feature

With a bit of attention and care, small seeds turn into big outcomes. Help do big things for our Prairie provinces at the Virtual Field of STARS, presented by a Bayer fundraiser on July 21 in support of STARS. You can make a difference by donating or bidding on an item through the Field of […] Read more


(TopconPositioning.com)

Brandt closes GeoShack deal, locks up Topcon sales in Canada

Tractor company revives Ontario deal

A deal to make Brandt Tractor the exclusive dealer for Topcon geopositioning equipment clear across Canada has been resuscitated. Regina-based Brandt announced Tuesday it has closed its previously-announced deal to buy the assets of GeoShack Canada — two weeks after Dallas-based GeoShack declared that “a mutually beneficial deal… has not been attained.” GeoShack has been […] Read more

One of the centrepieces of Burger King’s #CowsMenu campaign is a video directed by Michel Gondry featuring U.S. singer and yodeler Mason Ramsey. (Burger King video screengrab via YouTube)

U.S. beef ranchers sour on Burger King lemongrass ration

RBI arm launches '#CowsMenu' program, 'Reduced Methane' Whopper

A new U.S. sustainability campaign from one of the world’s biggest fast food chains, training its lens on beef cattle passing gas, has “disappointed” some cattle producers while also proposing its own new feedlot ration as a way to help cut emissions. Burger King, owned by Toronto-based Restaurant Brands International, on Tuesday launched the “#CowsMenu” […] Read more