The work stoppage has begun for Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) as of early Sunday morning, with both the union and the railway accusing the other of initiating the halting of rail services. As of early Sunday, both CP and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) were still at the table with federal mediators, according... Read More
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Originally announced in the fall 2021 budget, the $25 million Strategic Agri-Food Processing Fund Program will launch April 1, 2022. "Ontario’s food processing sector faces challenges to their ability to process more of the food that is grown in the province, including aging technology and facilities," the government says in a press release. "Many aging... Read More
Nutrien Ltd. has announced that in response to the uncertainty of potash supply from Eastern Europe, it plans to increase potash product capability to approximately 15 million tonnes in 2022. This is an increase of nearly one million tonnes compared to previous expectations, with the majority of additional volume expected to be produced in the... Read More
Fertilizer suppliers and retailers are scrambling to sort out the impact of the Canadian government's sanctions on fertilizer from Russia and Belarus, including shipments that were paid for and loaded prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Fertilizer has historically been one of Canada's largest imports from Russia. Approximately 660 to 680 thousand tonnes of nitrogen... Read More
Jennifer MacTavish has announced her departure from Ontario Sheep Farmers (OSF), happening sometime before August 31, 2022. MacTavish has served in the role for the last nine years. OSF chair John Hemsted has named a transition committee of the board to oversee the recruitment of a qualified individual for the general manager position. MacTavish is... Read More
Chris Lane will begin a new position as president and CEO of Economic Development Regina, as of April 25, 2022. Lane has spent the last six years as CEO of Canadian Western Agribition. He joined Agribition after spending several years as senior news producer for CBC in Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Maritimes. While the last... Read More
It's not easy to get a handle from an economic perspective on what some of the outcomes and the impacts are of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's already caused inflationary pressure, as Russia becomes cut off from the rest of the world, but as Kevin McNew, chief economist at Farmers Business Network (FBN), explains,... Read More
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) has triggered the 72-hour notice required for a lockout of over 3,000 conductors, engineers and other railway employees who are members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC). Unless the union and railway reach a negotiated settlement or agree to binding arbitration in the meantime, the lockout would begin at... Read More
The Canadian Competition Bureau says it did not find enough evidence to continue its investigation into allegations of anticompetitive behaviour in the crop input market in Western Canada between several crop input suppliers and Farmers Business Network (FBN) Canada. After entering the Canadian market in 2017, FBN acquired Yorkton Distributors in 2018, a Yorkton, SK.-based... Read More
The Canola Council of Canada has elected a new chair. Jennifer Marchand, who works in government and industry relations for Cargill, succeeds Saskatchewan farmer Charlene Bradley, who finished her three-year term as chair. “On behalf of the board, I’d like to thank Charlene Bradley as well as our outgoing board members, Garth Hodges, Dean McQueen... Read More