The new owners at farm equipment maker Buhler Industries have voted in new executives to run the Manitoba company. John Buhler, the company’s founder, CEO and board chairman, has resigned from those posts, as has Ossama AbouZeid, the president, secretary treasurer and chief financial officer, one week after Russian manufacturer Combine Factory Rostselmash closed its
Management changes hands at Buhler
Grain handler hires ex-CWB CEO Measner
Shipping and grain handling firm Upper Lakes Group of Toronto has hired ousted Canadian Wheat Board CEO Adrian Measner to head its grains group of companies. Citing Measner’s public statements in favour of the CWB’s sales monopoly on Prairie wheat and barley, then-federal Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl fired him from his CWB post in December
U.S. to take older Canadian cattle, beef starting Nov. 19
The United States will allow imports of older live Canadian cattle and their beef effective Nov. 19, U.S. agriculture officials announced this morning. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it will expand its list of allowable imports from countries recognized as posing “minimal risk” for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) —
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