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B.C. fish for Prairie plates

First We Eat: A co-operative aims to sustain the sea for fishing families’ future

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith August 3, 2024

Wild fish was part of my childhood on Vancouver Island. We picked oysters and mussels, dug clams, scooped up spawning grunions, and cast hooks for salmon. But these days, as fish prices skyrocket and issues over whether to eat farmed or wild fish become ever more complex, my consumption of fish has plummeted, relying on […] Read more

General, Machinery, Markets

Sollio outlines pandemic recovery plan for food sector

Support sought for automation, digitization, telecommunications

By GFM Network News June 1, 2020

Ottawa — One of Canada’s largest agri-food companies has laid out a five-point industry recovery plan for federal politicians to consider. During a meeting Tuesday of the Commons standing committee on finance, the president of Quebec-based Sollio Co-operative Group shared plans to limit consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agrifood supply chain. Sollio employs […] Read more

Columns, Marketing, Markets

What happened to those co-op grain elevator companies? Part 3

Grain co-op history and what marked the beginning of the end of those companies

By Brian Wittal May 11, 2020

The establishment of co-op organizations came out of the realization that people needed to work together for the benefit and betterment of everyone and the ability to join together to either sell or purchase needed products at fair value to ensure a decent living and livelihood for all involved. When the First World War broke […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Gay Lea buys northern Ontario cheesemaker

By GFM Network News December 3, 2019

Ontario’s first producer of verified-grass-fed butter and cheeses is set to become part of the province’s biggest dairy co-operative. Gay Lea Foods said Monday it has completed a deal to buy Thornloe Cheese from its current owner, Guelph-based dairy genetics firm EastGen, for an undisclosed sum. Thornloe Cheese on its website says the business takes […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Agropur to shut Montreal-area ice cream plant

By GFM Network News October 5, 2019

A Quebec ice cream processing plant absorbed in 2017 by Canada’s biggest dairy co-operative will shut its doors in about 10 months’ time. Agropur Co-operative announced Friday it plans to close the former Les Aliments Lebel plant at Lachute, Que., just northwest of Montreal, in August 2020 and transfer the plant’s operations to other Agropur […] Read more

General, Markets

Calgary to step out of Federated Co-op grocery system

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News August 12, 2019

Calgary Co-op’s grocery business plans to get all its goods from suppliers other than Federated Co-operatives (FCL) starting in April next year. Saskatoon-based FCL said Thursday it had received notice from Calgary Co-operative Association that it would “discontinue the procurement of all products for their grocery stores from FCL” at that time. The Saskatoon StarPhoenix […] Read more

(Video screengrabs from Exceldor.ca and Grannys.ca via YouTube)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Poultry co-ops Exceldor, Granny’s to merge

By GFM Network News July 3, 2019

Quebec poultry co-operative Exceldor is expanding its westward reach through a merger deal with Manitoba-based Granny’s Poultry Co-operative. The two co-ops announced the combination Wednesday, noting it’s already been approved by Granny’s producer members in a “unanimous” vote taken in May, and by the federal Competition Bureau in a decision last month. “The main objective […] Read more

Private grain handler Minn-Kota Ag Products has been setting up a new shuttle facility at Barney, N.D., about 80 km south of Fargo. (MKAP.com)

Crops, Reuters

U.S. grain firms set up co-ops in tax law’s wake

By Mark Weinraub, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News February 16, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country’s new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms. Private crop handlers — including the “big four” merchants Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. Congress near deal on tax law’s impact on grain market

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 9, 2018

Washington | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers are close to resolving a problem with the new federal tax law that gives grain co-operatives an unintended market edge over private companies, but have had a hard time getting agreement among members of the farm sector, a Republican senator said Thursday. A provision in the Republican tax overhaul […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Rush on to reverse U.S. tax boon for ag co-ops

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News January 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Republican U.S. senators are working with some of the world’s biggest agricultural merchants to undo a last-minute provision in the tax overhaul that threatens to distort the grains market and starve private firms of corn, soy and wheat supplies. It was included during final revisions of the tax bill that passed […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall sharply as Trump says he’s working to lower beef costs

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest reaches completion

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on yield uncertainty, firming cash markets

Tag Archives co-operative

B.C. fish for Prairie plates

Sollio outlines pandemic recovery plan for food sector

What happened to those co-op grain elevator companies? Part 3

Gay Lea buys northern Ontario cheesemaker

Agropur to shut Montreal-area ice cream plant

Calgary to step out of Federated Co-op grocery system

Poultry co-ops Exceldor, Granny’s to merge

U.S. grain firms set up co-ops in tax law’s wake

U.S. Congress near deal on tax law’s impact on grain market

Rush on to reverse U.S. tax boon for ag co-ops

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