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New Brunswick's incumbent agriculture minister and opposition ag critic are bound for a legislature under new management following Monday night's election.

Prince Edward Island's incumbent agriculture minister and opposition agriculture critics prevailed in Monday night's provincial election, in which incumbent premier Dennis King's Tories were returned with a majority. Darlene Compton, King's agriculture minister since last summer and his incumbent deputy premier, won re-election Monday for the Progressive Conservatives in her district of Belfast-Murray River. Compton,[...]

A persistent and fiercely competitive weed that has developed resistance to several herbicide groups since its arrival in Canada is now the first in the country to fight off a Group 27 product. Quebec's Reseau d'avertissement phytosanitaire (RAP) last Friday reported a patch of waterhemp with resistance to mesotrione herbicide in the Haut-Richelieu municipality, in[...]

New Brunswick's incumbent agriculture minister and opposition ag critic are among those returning to the legislative assembly as the provincial Tories locked in a governing majority. As of 9 p.m. CT Monday, incumbent Premier Blaine Higgs' Progressive Conservatives, who went into the vote with a 22-seat minority government, were elected in 27 of 49 ridings.[...]

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[...]