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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[...]

A Prince Edward Island dairy farmer who unseated the province's incumbent premier on election night is the new provincial minister for agriculture and land, and for justice and public safety. Bloyce Thompson, the new Progressive Conservative MLA for the district of Stanhope-Marshfield, was sworn in Thursday as a member of incoming Premier Dennis King's nine-member[...]

Prince Edward Island's incumbent agriculture minister and lead opposition critic both held onto their seats in Tuesday's election but will return to a much different legislative assembly. Dennis King's opposition Progressive Conservatives captured 12 of 26 available districts to win a minority government. Peter Bevan-Baker's Greens move up into official opposition with eight seats and[...]

Reuters -- U.S. cannabis retailer Green Growth Brands said on Tuesday it would make a second all-stock takeover bid for Aphria, valuing the Canadian pot producer at about $2.35 billion. Several companies are looking to partner with or buy pot firms to explore opportunities in the Canadian cannabis sector after the country legalized recreational use[...]

New Brunswick's incoming minority Progressive Conservative government will again have one minister handling the province's agriculture and aquaculture files. Premier Blaine Higgs on Friday announced Gagetown-Petitcodiac MLA Ross Wetmore as his minister of agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries. Wetmore, 65, replaces Andrew Harvey and Benoit Bourque, who had handled the agriculture and fisheries portfolios respectively on[...]

New Brunswick's incumbent agriculture minister is among the Liberal cabinet members knocked out of office in Monday night's too-close-to-call provincial election. Final results from Elections New Brunswick put Progressive Conservative candidate Robert Gauvin ahead of Agriculture, Mines and Rural Affairs Minister Wilfred Roussel by a spread of 99 votes in his northeastern riding of Shippagan-Lameque-Miscou.[...]

The Ontario Liberals' minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs is among the election-night casualties as the province's Progressive Conservatives get set to form a majority government. As of midnight CT Friday, Doug Ford's Tories were elected or leading in 76 of 124 ridings, followed by Andrea Horwath's New Democrats in 40 and Kathleen Wynne's[...]

Winnipeg | CNS Canada – Renewable sources of energy may be the future, but that future is not coming any time soon as fossil fuels will be needed to continue to power the world for generations, according to author and professor emeritus Vaclav Smil, speaking at the Grain World conference in Winnipeg, Nov. 14. “We[...]

Ontario's 450-odd processing vegetable growers have put up just three people to fill four open spots on the board of their marketing organization. The Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers (OPVG) on Friday announced the results from an election meeting for two District 1 directors, held Thursday evening in Chatham. Tomato and bean grower David Epp of[...]

The Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission has named a new chair and four directors for the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers board, with another four directors to be elected by growers this week. Suzanne van Bommel, a farm co-owner with a long history of work in the agriculture sector, has been appointed chair. The province dismissed[...]