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Olymel to idle multiple Prairie hog barns

Packer cites 'continued financial losses' in sector

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 27, 2023

Pork packer Olymel is preparing to dial back its hog production in Western Canada by shuttering six of its sow units in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Olymel, the agrifood arm of Quebec’s Sollio Cooperative Group, announced Friday it has served 80 employees with layoff notices at five sow units in Alberta and one in Saskatchewan. The […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Deere mega-dealership buys into Red Deer market

By GFM Network News November 23, 2018

A central Alberta John Deere dealership which billed itself as “one of the few independently owned” dealers in the region is set to join Cervus Equipment. Calgary-based, publicly-traded Cervus announced Friday it will buy Red Deer-based Deermart Equipment Sales for an undisclosed sum. Deermart, owned by John Donald, Jack Donald and Abe Derksen since 1982, […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery

Online livestock supply store expands reach west

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 19, 2017

An Ontario livestock nutrition firm’s venture into online retail for producers is expanding into the Prairie provinces with four pickup and ordering points in the region. Cambridge, Ont.-based GVF Group announced Thursday its Farmers Farmacy business, previously available only to producers in Ontario, the Maritime provinces and Quebec, now also serves Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

Olymel plans sausage production at Red Deer

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 10, 2017

New equipment and refrigerated storage are going into Olymel’s Alberta pork processing plant at Red Deer as the facility gets into the sausage business. Pork and poultry processor Olymel, owned mainly by Quebec agribusiness co-operative La Coop federee, announced Monday it will put up $2 million to convert a section of the Red Deer plant […] Read more

Crops

Paterson to build new central Alta. elevator

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 29, 2016

Winnipeg’s Paterson Grain has lined up property off the QE2 Highway in central Alberta for its next inland grain terminal. The company announced Monday it would start construction “immediately” at a site near Bowden, Alta., about 40 km south of Red Deer, to start taking grain in 2017. The facility, when complete, will have storage […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Coop Federee to offer Olymel stake

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News February 25, 2016

Reuters — Quebec-based La Coop Federee, one of Canada’s biggest farmer co-operatives, is offering for sale up to 49 per cent of pork processor Olymel, to help fund expansion in Western Canada, CEO Gaetan Desroches said in an interview. La Co-op would retain control of Olymel, which along with Maple Leaf Foods is one of […] Read more

China soybean imports hit record June high on strong Brazil shipments

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

GFM Network News

China soybean imports hit record June high on strong Brazil shipments

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

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Olymel to idle multiple Prairie hog barns

Deere mega-dealership buys into Red Deer market

Online livestock supply store expands reach west

Olymel plans sausage production at Red Deer

Paterson to build new central Alta. elevator

Coop Federee to offer Olymel stake

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