Daily Network News

More News →

Country Crossroads

Neogen Sees Food Contamination Fears Driving Growth

By
“It’s not just at the processing plant. It goes all the way back inside the farm gate.” – LON BOHANNON The growing risk of food contamination resulting from large production facilities and rapid distribution is putting Neogen Corp. on track to reach its objective of annual sales of more than $200 million by 2013, a
News

Pilot Mound Entrepreneurs Honoured By BDC

By
Farmers were so impressed with an innovative crop fertilization service developed by Curtis MacKinnon and Wade Barnes that they urged them to take it to market, giving them the push they needed to strike out on their own. Since that initial start four years ago, Farmers Edge Precision Consulting has become a fast-growing business that
Country Crossroads

Railway Gone, But Station Lives On

By
The grain elevator and the railway are gone, but the railway station, which is now a museum and national historic site, still stands in this farming community 120 years after it was built. With the help of a $9,000 grant from the federal government and the ongoing efforts of the Miami Railway Station Museum Association,
Beef cattle, News

New Beef Company Tries Online Marketing

By
Keystone Processors Ltd. has opened an online store to sell Manitoba-raised hormone-free beef direct to consumers. The beef-processing plant, which opened earlier this year on Marion Street in St. Boniface, is working with Natural Prairie Beef to bring NPB’s brand of premium, locally raised, hormone-free beef to the Winnipeg market. Consumers can now purchase steaks,
News, Oilseeds

Viterra Enters Canola-Crushing Business

By
A Manitoba canola-crushing plant with a checkered past has a new owner who promises a bright future for the facility. Viterra Inc. last week held a grand opening for its canola crush operation which it purchased earlier this year from Associated Proteins LP. It’s Viterra’s first venture into the canola-crushing business but likely not the
News

Can A Champion Horse Be Recreated Forever?

By
In 1996 a sheep named Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since then cloning technology has been adopted by some in the equine community. So far there are fewer than 100 cloned horses in the world. Many are genetic twins of historical champions and as such are of extremely high
Hogs, News

Smithfield To Shut Plants, Cut Jobs

By
Smithfield Foods said Feb. 17 it would close six processed meat plants and eliminate 1,800 jobs while retaining its current hog slaughter capacity as it restructures its pork group. Smithfield, the largest U. S. hog and pork producer, makes more than 50 brands of pork and turkey products including John Morrell, Eckrich and Armour. None
News

Pfizer-Wyeth merger could impact Pregnant Mare Urine producers

By
Wyeth, a pharmaceutical company that manufactures drugs for humans and animals announced Jan. 26 it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Pfizer is purchasing Wyeth for $68 billion. Now, one might won-de r how this would impact Pregnant Mares Urine (PMU) farmers in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and in North Dakota.
News

Auger-Steer wins Inventor’s Showcase

By
Brandon With grain augers and conveyors going the way of farms – getting bigger – the days when a couple of farmhands could hoist them up and manoeuvre them around the yard and into position are gone. And using tractors to move them around corners and buildings in tight yards is no easy task either,
News

of efficient and durable design

Providing farmers with quality equipment based on simple design and innovative engineering has long been a tradition synonymous with the Versatile name. In fact, that is exactly how the company got its start. Peter Pakosh, one of the two founders, first used that principle to design a revolutionary new grain auger in the basement of

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 18, 2025

Sponsored By:
More Videos →

Cyber-Savvy Farmer

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast

Latest Market News

More Market News →