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Vale fertilizer sale seen on track despite review

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Rio de Janeiro | Reuters — Vale SA’s plan to dispose of fertilizer assets remains on track despite a request last week by Brazil’s state development bank, BNDES, to analyze the transaction more carefully, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Terms of the deal, which involves the sale of certain assets
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Monsanto surprises with adjusted profit as expenses drop

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Reuters — U.S. seeds and agrochemicals company Monsanto, which agreed last month to be bought by Germany’s Bayer for US$66 billion, reported a surprise adjusted profit, helped by a drop in expenses and higher corn seed volumes. Monsanto agreed in September to a sweetened $128-per-share offer from Bayer that, if approved by regulators, would create
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Manitoba farmers feel left out on farm policy tour

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CNS Canada –– Manitoba has been dropped from an upcoming consulting tour meant to lay the foundation for Canada’s next agricultural policy funding framework. That will limit the province’s producers, the head of an industry group says. The House of Commons’ standing committee on agriculture and agri-food is holding a consulting tour to hear from
University of Manitoba researcher Martin Entz (r) gives federal MP Terry Duguid a quick lesson in the merits of hairy vetch in a cropping system at the Glenlea long-term organic cropping trials Sept. 23. Looking on is the university’s vice-president of research Digvir Jayas and Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler.
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New funds for organic research

Researchers at the long-term organic research trials at Glenlea will be getting some state-of-the art equipment

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Organic research at the University of Manitoba is getting a boost from the provincial and federal governments. They capped off National Organic Week by announcing a $366,000 research investment Sept. 23. “This strategic investment in equipment and infrastructure will ensure the university continues to produce research that is relevant to producers who are interested in
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Editorial: More of the same?

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There’s a certain predictability to how the next round of agricultural policy discussions are unfolding. With the Growing Forward 2 suite of programs set to expire in March 2018, many expect that what follows will closely resemble what’s being replaced. That might not serve Canadian agriculture particularly well, however, since the sector is facing a
Cathy Glover. (Photo courtesy Country Life in B.C.)
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B.C. farm journal under new ownership

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The monthly paper billed as Canada’s oldest independently-owned farm journal has yielded a new owner from its own front office. Cathy Glover, the assistant editor and sales manager for Country Life in B.C., was announced Wednesday as the journal’s new owner, taking over from retiring editor/publisher Peter Wilding. British Columbia’s commercial farmers and ranchers “have
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Ottawa to back new tractor plant in Quebec

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A federal fund to help communities diversify from the asbestos business will help finance a major tractor manufacturer’s first facilities in Canada. Navdeep Bains, the minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED), on Tuesday announced a “repayable contribution” of $350,000 for Mahindra Canada-Est to put up a 22,000-square foot industrial building at Adstock,

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