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About a dozen Quebec dairy farms will be getting their collective manure together next year for the province's first-ever ag co-operative devoted to renewable natural gas. Coop Agri-Energie Warwick, launched Monday, plans to start construction this spring on a $12 million biomethanization plant which will take in slurry and manure from dairy cattle mixed with[...]

Antitrust regulators have cleared the path for La Coop federee to take up a significantly larger, vertically integrated share of its home province's pork packing, feed milling and hog production sectors. The agribusiness co-operative announced Thursday its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture arms have "received the green light" from the federal Competition Bureau to buy the[...]

Newfoundland and Labrador's Forestry and Agrifoods Agency, which oversees public policy for the province's livestock, crops and agrifood sectors, is again getting new management. Oversight for the agency, first set up in 2007 by then-natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale, had been moved in March from the natural resources department to the fisheries and aquaculture department. However,[...]

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's post-election cabinet shuffle puts the province's agriculture and food ministry and rural affairs ministry back under one minister. Wynne on Tuesday announced Jeff Leal, the MPP for Peterborough and the province's minister of rural affairs since February last year, as the new minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs in what's now[...]

Ontario's farm organizations are hailing the Ontario Liberals' choice of Kathleen Wynne as the province's new premier, in light of her pledge to appoint herself as Ontario's ag minister for at least a year. Party members on Saturday chose Wynne -- the MPP for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West since 2003 -- as[...]