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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

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy firms plan joint processing venture in Winnipeg

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 17, 2016

Manitoba dairy producers are expected to get a new outlet for their raw milk from a new joint venture to process butter and dairy ingredients in Winnipeg. Mississauga-based dairy co-operative Gay Lea Foods and ingredient processor Vitalus Nutrition of Abbotsford, B.C. on Monday announced a joint venture to be based at an unnamed “existing food […] Read more

Crops

B.C. beer firm to shed Vancouver, Winnipeg breweries

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 12, 2016

The owner of Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Brewing and Surrey-based Russell Brewing is set to sell those companies to separate buyers. Vancouver-based Russell Breweries said Friday it plans to sell Fort Garry to an unnamed purchaser for about $7.7 million and Russell Brewing to a B.C. numbered company for $1.8 million. Russell Breweries, whose shares trade […] Read more

Shanghai’s Pudong business district, shown here, is home to COFCO Agri’s Chinese trading office. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

China’s COFCO to open Canadian grain office by autumn

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 28, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — China’s COFCO Agri will open a Canadian crop trading office in Winnipeg by the time farmers harvest their new crops, the state-owned agricultural trader said Tuesday. The new office, which Reuters reported earlier this month, will focus on trading canola and its processed products oil and meal, as well as wheat, […] Read more

Winnipeg has long been a centre of the Prairie grain trade, having hosted the headquarters of past and present grain handlers and traders and the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (now ICE Futures Canada). (Canadian Wheat Board photo)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

China’s COFCO Agri hiring grain traders, opening Winnipeg office

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 10, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Chinese state-owned agricultural trader COFCO Agri is opening a trading office in the Canadian grain hub of Winnipeg, adding to the aggressive expansion of its North American agriculture business. COFCO Agri is hiring three grain traders and an operations manager to expand export and domestic trading, according to the company’s postings […] Read more

Mariette Mulaire, CEO of World Trade Centre Winnipeg. (Supplied photo)

Livestock, Markets

Ad Feature: Centrallia brings export opportunities to centre stage

By GFM Network News March 2, 2016

Canada’s geographical centre is set to reach out to the world in May, as host of a business-to-business (B2B) forum for agribusinesses and other sectors to network across the globe from one spot. That forum is one component of Centrallia, in which over 700 participants from Canada and over 30 other countries are expected at […] Read more

CentrePort’s attractiveness lies partly in its access to multiple rail carriers, as Paterson Grain’s terminal northwest of Winnipeg already has. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops

Toronto grain firm’s elevator to anchor Winnipeg rail park

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 14, 2016

Toronto grain trading firm BroadGrain Commodities aims to build some Prairie handling muscle with a new grain terminal and bean plant in Winnipeg’s planned CentrePort rail park. The company, which already operates a pair of elevators in southwestern and eastern Ontario and took over Saskatchewan pulse and special crop processor Lakeside Global Grains in 2011, […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Parmalat gets GF2 funds for new Winnipeg milk plant

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 15, 2015

Dairy giant Parmalat is set to get federal and Manitoba government funding toward its planned new $50 million milk plant in Winnipeg. The two levels of government on Tuesday pledged $2.5 million toward the construction of Parmalat’s new dairy plant at an industrial park in the city’s St. Boniface area, about seven km east of […] Read more

Crops

Cereals North America: W. Canada to see marketing shifts

By GFM Network News November 3, 2015

Winnipeg/Commodity News Service Canada – Crops in Western Canada saw a range of weather conditions this year, resulting in lower production and higher protein. That means there will be a marketing shift next year, according to Bruce Burnett, weather and crop specialist with G3 Canada (formerly CWB), speaking at a Cereals North America conference in […] Read more

Canola, Cereals, Pulses

Send your grain harvest samples in for free analysis

The CGC’s Harvest Sample Program gives farmers a valuable marketing tool

By Lee Hart September 4, 2015

Getting a free grain quality analysis at harvest not only puts farmers in a better bargaining position when they market their crops, but it also helps Canada sell grain, canola and pulse crops around the world. The ongoing Harvest Sample Program offered by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) gives a farmer more solid footing when […] 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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Online livestock supply store expands reach west

Dairy firms plan joint processing venture in Winnipeg

B.C. beer firm to shed Vancouver, Winnipeg breweries

China’s COFCO to open Canadian grain office by autumn

China’s COFCO Agri hiring grain traders, opening Winnipeg office

Ad Feature: Centrallia brings export opportunities to centre stage

Toronto grain firm’s elevator to anchor Winnipeg rail park

Parmalat gets GF2 funds for new Winnipeg milk plant

Cereals North America: W. Canada to see marketing shifts

Send your grain harvest samples in for free analysis

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