For a few days in the summer of 2012 it may have been the most famous tractor in Western Canada, though it would never pull an implement again. But a southern Manitoba equipment dealer who bought the 2009 Case IH Steiger 485 says the unit, long since dismantled for parts, could possibly have been put
Tractor withstood mysterious burial in manure
Swedish equipment firm buys Seed Hawk
A small hamlet in southeastern Saskatchewan will be the base for a prominent Swedish planting and tillage equipment maker to set itself up in the North American ag market. Vaderstad-Verken AB on Thursday announced it will buy full ownership of Seed Hawk, the Langbank, Sask.-based air seeder manufacturer in which it’s held a minority stake
Ontario reworks provincial funding model for horseracing
The Ontario government’s retreat from slot machines as its primary means of support for horseracing in the province will be covered with a five-year, $400 million funding package. The province on Friday released its five-year plan for horseracing industry development, which will tie its funding for racetracks to viable business planning and “community and commercial
Expect more market volatility from U.S. shutdown
Have a marketing plan in place and stick to it, FCC’s Gervais says Without the ballast of U.S. government data to keep them grounded, crop and livestock markets are expected only to become even more volatile for as long as the U.S. government shutdown lingers. Coping with that added volatility is therefore “a matter of
Expect more market volatility from U.S. shutdown
Without the ballast of U.S. government data to keep them grounded, crop and livestock markets are expected only to become even more volatile for as long as the U.S. government shutdown lingers. Coping with that added volatility is therefore “a matter of making sure you have a marketing plan in place” and sticking to it,
Canola processor BioExx files for creditor protection
A Prairie processor’s ambition to make high-value food-grade proteins from cold-pressed canola has hit the bottom of the bin. Toronto-based BioExx, at its Saskatoon plant, has tried to commercialize Isolexx, a canola protein isolate, and a hydrolyzed canola protein dubbed Vitalexx, while selling food-grade canola oil and feed-grade canola meal. Judge Frank Newbould of the
Deal ends lockout at Toronto beef packing plant
Workers at Ontario’s third-biggest federally inspected beef plant voted Friday in favour of a new contract, ending a three-week lockout for Toronto’s Ryding Regency Meat Packers. The new contract, retroactive to March 2012, runs until March 2016 and covers 130 workers at the Toronto slaughter and processing plant, according to their union, United Food and
Changes coming to insecticide treatment
Canada’s corn and soybean industry are ready to meet proposed new safeguards to reduce bee deaths related to neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments, industry officials say. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) hopes to have the new measures in place by 2014. “We have concluded that current agricultural practices related to the use of neonicotinoid
U.S. court won’t reverse COOL changes
A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a plea from Canada’s cattle and hog producer groups, in tandem with U.S. livestock producer and packer groups, to halt changes to the U.S. government’s country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rules. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday morning released her
Puffed wheat plant’s proprietor to be sold
U.S. firm TreeHouse Foods to buy Associated Brands
The company behind a formerly famous face in Manitoba-made puffed wheat is soon to be owned by a U.S. food-processing firm. Mississauga-based Associated Brands, which until last year operated the Prairie Maid Cereals plant on Berry Street in Winnipeg, is poised to be sold to TreeHouse Foods for about $187 million, the two companies announced
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