Nufarm’s cereal herbicide Enforcer M has picked up approval for an expanded label allowing its use in canary seed crops, and its use on more weeds and in more tank mixes. Enforcer, a post-emergent herbicide previously labelled for use in spring, winter and durum wheat and barley, is applied from the three-leaf to flag-leaf stage […] Read more
Cereal herbicide approved for use in canary seed crops
Wendy’s calls for progress reports on stall-free pork
Canadian and U.S. pork suppliers feeding the Wendy’s restaurant chain now must file quarterly progress reports on how much of their pork is produced without the use of gestation stalls. The Ohio-based burger chain, which includes about 370 Canadian outlets among about 6,600 worldwide, announced in 2007 it would give preferential buying to pork suppliers […] Read more
AGI to take up GrainVac product line
Grain handling equipment firm Ag Growth International (AGI) has brought another Prairie manufacturer into its bin with a deal to buy the GrainVac product line. Winnipeg-based AGI closed its deal Monday to buy the GrainVac line from Swift Current, Sask. manufacturer Rem Enterprises, which has made and marketed GrainVacs for about 40 years. The manufacturing […] Read more
Sask. launches pilot for farm worker training program
Saskatchewan’s regional colleges are to become home to new training programs for workers on the province’s farms, starting with a crop production course in March. The provincial and federal governments on Wednesday launched the pilot for an Agricultural Operator Program: three modules on seeding, spraying/scouting and harvest, to be delivered at Parkland Regional College in […] Read more
P+H backs away from deal for Owen Sound port
Talks for grain company Parrish and Heimbecker to take over the federally-operated Lake Huron port of Owen Sound, Ont., where it already runs a grain terminal, have sunk with no deal. The port, on Georgian Bay, is one of 34 “regional/local” ports in Canada now managed by Transport Canada’s port programs directorate, which is tasked […] Read more
Ont. hog industry backed for added biosecurity measures
Ontario hog producers can expect new public funding to help step up biosecurity at “critical points,” following the arrival of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in the province on at least two farms. The provincial government on Tuesday pledged $2 million for Ontario Pork to back “industry-wide investments to improve biosecurity measures at critical […] Read more
Parrish and Heimbecker seeking Weyburn Inland Terminal
Grain handler Parrish and Heimbecker plans to buy its way further into southeastern Saskatchewan’s grain handle with a $94.6 million all-cash deal for farmer-owned Weyburn Inland Terminal. Winnipeg-based P+H on Friday announced an “arrangement agreement” with WIT in which the grain firm would buy up all WIT’s issued and outstanding shares for $17.25 each, about […] Read more
GM alfalfa protested at seed meeting
A group opposed to genetic modification of seeds says it will protest outside the Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) annual meeting in Quebec City today. The CSTA says it has offered to meet with the protesters, but they have declined. The protest is organized by Vigilance OGM, a Quebec-based group which last week announced the […] Read more
Grain farmers hail rail freight service enforcement
Law tabled Tuesday may impose arbitrated service pacts, fines for violations
Behlen and Sakundiak now Meridian
Meridian Manufacturing and Winnipeg-based parent company WGI have announced that effective Jan. 1, all agricultural products manufactured by Behlen Industries, Sakundiak Equipment and Meridian Manufacturing will be branded Meridian. “Our new product line will now include a full offering of SmoothWall hopper bins, bulk seed tenders, augers and conveyors, commercial and oilfield tanks, fuel tanks, […] Read more