The headlines on our Sept. 6, 2001 front page announced that the delegates of Agricore — which had been formed in 1998 with a merger of Manitoba and Alberta Pools — had voted to merge with United Grain Growers to become Agricore United. It was in turn taken over by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 2007,
A century of farmer-owned co-operative grain companies comes to an end
Our History: September 2001
Hot and dry Prairies sees wheat production down 6.8 million tonnes
Our History: August 1997
This ad on our Aug. 21, 1997 issue invited farmers to join a co-op to supply straw to the Isobord strawboard plant at Elie, which would open the following year. While the co-op was successful in attracting straw, and the product was reported to be of high quality, the plant struggled and was eventually taken
East’s biggest oilseed crusher goes to Viterra
Eastern Canada’s biggest oilseed processing plant is poised to become part of Canada’s biggest grain handler. Regina-based Viterra announced last week it has signed a deal to buy the shares of Twin Rivers Technologies-Entreprises de Transformation de Graines Oleagineuses du Quebec, or TRT-ETGO, whose main asset is its canola and soybean crushing and refining plant
New Sask. farm drainage rules ready for rollout
Saskatchewan has laid out a new set of regulations meant to bring all farm drainage works — including previously grandfathered drains — into compliance in the next 10 years. The regulations, announced Tuesday, will first be applied to pilot projects in the province’s east — in the Souris Basin, near Stoughton, and the Assiniboine Basin,
Canadian chain New York Fries to join Cara
A potato-based staple of shopping-mall food courts across Canada is set to become an arm of the country’s biggest full-service restaurant operator. The numbered owner of New York Fries agreed Monday to a cash deal to sell its entire stake to Cara Operations Ltd., which operates or franchises dining brands across Canada including Swiss Chalet,
Agricultural Hall of Fame: Roslyn Morris Deveson
The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees
The youngest of eight children, Roslyn Morris Deveson was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, on February 1, 1933. He was raised on a mixed farm at Arden and attended Inkerman elementary school. Following high school in Neepawa, Morris attended the University of Manitoba from which he graduated with a bachelor of science in agriculture (B.S.A.) in
Canada lifts bans on three states’ poultry, eggs
Travellers entering Canada from the U.S. can now bring in uncooked poultry products and eggs from Indiana, Montana and/or Arkansas. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) during August declared each of those three states free of highly pathogenic (“high-path”) avian flu, following discoveries of infected poultry in those states this spring. Poultry from Indiana had
The problem with ‘all-you-can(‘t)-eat’ dining
Study says unfinished meat wastes more resources than other foods
In a new study, University of Missouri researchers say that while less meat is wasted on average compared to fruits and vegetables, it represents more total resource waste in inputs such as fuel and fertilizer. “While many of us are concerned about food waste, we also need to consider the resources that are wasted when
Farm kids: Don’t worry about wages
A new study by Cornell University agricultural economists says family members who work on the family dairy farm make $22,000 less annually than comparable hired managers, but are handsomely compensated with “socioemotional” wealth. “While $22,000 seems like a large penalty, there are non-financial rewards they experience working for the family business,” Loren Tauer, professor at
Barley’s genome now two-thirds sequenced
A team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside says it has reached a new milestone in its work on sequencing the barley genome. In a release Tuesday, the researchers said they have sequenced large portions of the genome that together contain nearly two-thirds of all barley genes. Because barley is a close relative
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