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New Brunswick's incumbent agriculture minister is among the election-night casualties for Premier David Alward's Tories as the provincial Liberals get set to return to government. Michael Olscamp, the Tories' minister of agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries since 2010 and MLA for the Sackville-area riding of Tantramar, lost his seat Monday against Bernard LeBlanc, the Liberals' MLA[...]

Chicago | Reuters -- U.S. grain and soybean futures tumbled on Monday after the Agriculture Department reported higher-than-expected figures for U.S. soy plantings and June 1 corn and soy stocks. The government reported 2014 soybean seedings at a record-high 84.8 million acres, topping a range of analyst estimates. "The corn and bean acres are stunning,"[...]

Chicago | Reuters -- U.S. soybean futures rose on Wednesday, rebounding from their lowest in nearly three months on a round of mild bargain buying, traders said. Wheat futures rose on support from short-covering as well as disappointing harvest yields in key hard red winter wheat-growing areas of the U.S. Plains. Corn followed wheat higher,[...]

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[...]

When Felix Weber brought the Swinglet Cam to market about three years ago, the capability for "reading" a crop's progress through different imagining cameras was considered revolutionary. Adoption of the technology has been slow, though, with early innovators spreading the message. This year, senseFly, manufacturer of the Swinglet Cam, has introduced the eBee Ag system,[...]

Staking a claim in the smoking-hot Canadian whisky market, Italian beverage giant Campari is poised to snap up what's billed as the only independent whisky maker in Ontario. Gruppo Campari on Wednesday announced a cash deal to buy full ownership of Forty Creek Distillery of Grimsby, Ont. for $185.6 million. Milan-based Campari said Forty Creek,[...]