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UFA to shut down outdoor outfitter business

Alberta farmers’ co-operative UFA is set to get out of an “increasingly competitive” space in the retail sector by closing its outdoor supply chain Wholesale Sports. The co-operative, which bought what was then a seven-store chain in 2008, announced Thursday it would start inventory liquidation sales Friday at all 12 of its remaining Wholesale Sports

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Agropur to take control of Iogo, Olympic yogurt maker

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 31, 2017

Ultima Foods, the Canadian maker of Iogo and Olympic yogurt products, is set to become the sole property of Quebec dairy producers’ co-op Agropur. Agropur and Agrifoods International Co-operative, which combined their yogurt manufacturing and marketing operations in 1993 to form Ultima as a 50-50 joint venture, announced a deal Thursday which will see Agropur

Crops

CHS replaces CEO after earnings decline, Brazil exposure

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek May 23, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — CHS Inc., the biggest U.S. agricultural co-operative, named a new chief executive on Monday, after suffering a sharp decline in income and confirming it was a creditor of a failing Brazilian commodities trader. Minnesota-based CHS picked Jay Debertin to take over immediately for Carl Casale, who had been CEO for six

Farm sales to co-ops to count for small business deduction

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 8, 2017

Changes to federal tax law that were meant to block “multiplication” of the small business deduction for corporations won’t apply to farmers’ sales to co-operatives. The federal government on Friday released draft amendments to the Income Tax Act, which would allow qualifying farmers and fishers selling to agricultural and fisheries co-operatives to be eligible for

Coop federee president Ghislain Gervais speaks to the co-operative’s AGM Feb. 23 in Quebec City. (CNW Group/La Coop federee)

Livestock

Coop federee cracks $6 billion mark in revenues

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 24, 2017

Revenues for expansion-minded Quebec agrifood and retail co-operative La Coop federee crossed the $6 billion mark in fiscal 2016, leading to a substantial jump in patronage dividends to producers. The co-operative at its annual meeting reported earnings, before patronage dividends and income taxes, of $275.44 million on $6.335 billion in revenues for fiscal 2016, up

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Scotsburn ice cream business sale to Agropur cleared

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 2, 2017

Canada’s biggest dairy co-operative has been given the all-clear to close its deal for an Atlantic dairy co-op’s ice cream business. Agropur Co-operative on Thursday announced it has bought the assets of Truro, N.S.-based Scotsburn Co-operative Services, which include the company’s plants in Truro and in Lachute, Que. as well as the Scotsburn brand name.

Crops

InVivo pursues co-op alliances to vie with grain, chemical giants

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 26, 2016

Paris | Reuters — France’s InVivo wants to expand international partnerships with other co-operatives, including in joint buying of crop supplies and shipping fixtures, as it tries to compete with global grain trading and chemical firms, its CEO said on Wednesday. InVivo, a grouping of 220 agricultural co-operatives and one of the largest exporters of

Bruce Friesen, Dugald United Church member, together with Murray Gillespie, Bev Zarazun and Lesley Thomson are members of the recently established  Springfield Seniors Housing Co-op Ltd. which is constructing a 47-unit, three-storey apartment development on the east side of Dugald.

Country Crossroads

Dugald housing co-op a model for meeting rural seniors’ housing needs

By Lorraine Stevenson August 26, 2015

With their Oakbank-area acreage becoming too much to maintain, Bev and Adam Zarazun plan to sell and move to a home that takes less to maintain. In the past, that would have meant leaving their neighbours and friends too but the Zarazuns are thankful they have a new option closer by. They’ll be living just

Comment, Crops

Glyphosate resistance: Change now or pay later

A USDA-ERS report shows managing glyphosate resistance is more cost effective than ignoring resistance and farmers need to work together

By USDA Economic Research Service May 12, 2015

The United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service recently published the results of a study into the economics of glyphosate-resistance management on U.S. corn and soybean farms. Through surveys and computer models it determined the relative costs of ignoring the problem versus taking action to address it. The following is an excerpt from that

Livestock, Poultry

Hatchery amps up bird deterrence in face of avian influenza

Consumer faith in poultry products appears to be holding in spite of a growing  number of avian influenza cases on farms in Ontario and the U.S.

By Shannon VanRaes May 11, 2015

Manitoba poultry producers and processors have yet to be stung by the avian influenza sweeping farms south of the border, but that doesn’t mean it’s business as usual. Enhanced biosecurity brings a host of changes and logistical challenges. “We’ve increased our sanitation measures, we have foot baths now at all the entrances to our production

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle extend gains on improving cash prices, packer demand

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide on China demand doubts

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

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