Bayer CropScience (Bayer) and DuPont Crop Protection (DuPont) have signed of an agreement for Bayer to purchase certain DuPont Crop Protection land management assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Through the acquisition, Bayer gains access to DuPont's forestry, range and pasture products and expands its environmental science business unit to... Read More
Category: Ag Business
Toromont Industries is expanding its farm equipment network in Manitoba. The parent company of Toromont Cat has acquired Ag West Equipment Ltd, with its dealerships at Neepawa and Portage la Prairie, for $6 million, inclusive of acquired debt. The acquisition, which occurred on September 30th, was made public with the release of Toromont's third quarter... Read More
Farmers of North America is asking the federal government to hold off on privatizing the Canadian Wheat Board to give the Saskatoon-based farmer business alliance more time to pitch its plan for turning CWB into a farmer-owned grain company. FNA has held over 100 farmer meetings across Western Canada over the last month asking farmers... Read More
Had another busy week? Here's some listening material that will get you up-to-speed on farm news from the last seven days. Kelvin Heppner discusses the recent slide (or "correction") in stock markets, the latest on U.S. country of origin labeling, quality problems in pulses, World Food Day and much more. Here's the "This Week on... Read More
A federally funded focus group exercise held across the country last December named farmers as victims of classic stereotypes, and revealed how misconceptions continue to dominate people’s perceptions of agriculture. Notably, the focus group participants said they saw farming as shrinking, stuck in time, environmentally unfriendly and unlikely to be a family business for much... Read More
Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited has reached an agreement to purchase Hewitt's Dairy, effective November 1, 2014. Hewitt's, a family-owned and -operated processor in Hagersville, Ontario, has been in the dairy industry for over 125 years, and offers a complete line of goat milk products, including organic goat milk in glass bottles and fresh organic... Read More
While it can be difficult to picture it from the middle of a wheat field in rural Saskatchewan, changes to the global economy have a very real impact at the field level...eventually. It's those big-picture economic forces that J.P Gervais, chief economist with Farm Credit Canada (FCC) will outline at his upcoming presentation at the... Read More
Regina-based specialty crop buyer Alliance Grain Traders has completed a change to its name, announcing this morning that it is now known as "AGT Food and Ingredients Inc." "We feel our new name better reflects our business focus and strategy and makes this focus clear to our shareholders, our customers, our stakeholders and to food... Read More
Staff at Cargill crop input retail sites in Manitoba are letting customers know that the company will no longer sell anhydrous ammonia (NH3) fertilizer after next spring. Due to its hazardous nature and the strict regulations surrounding the handling of NH3, it's become harder to find reliable transportation, says the company. "Our decision was based... Read More
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) has filed a lawsuit against the Government of Canada, appealing changes to rail regulations brought forward in Bill C-30 — The Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act. CP Rail names the Canadian Transportation Agency and the Attorney General of Canada in the suit, which was filed with the Federal Court... Read More