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FCC honours five women leaders in agriculture

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 9, 2013

The Rosemary Davis Award recipients  receive an all-expense-paid trip to a Boston leadership conference

Winnipeg geneticist and professor, Silvie Cloutier is among five women to receive the 2013 Rosemary Davis award from Farm Credit Canada (FCC). The award recognizes outstanding Canadian women for their leadership and commitment to the Canadian agriculture and agri-food industry. Cloutier’s research has been used in plant-breeding programs to protect crops from disease, improve production

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Young farmers optimistic about the future despite high cost of getting started

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2013

Getting started in farming these days isn’t easy — but there’s plenty of young people eager to try. “Now it’s more business focused than in the past,” Simon Ellis said during a lull in the discussions at the recent Young and Beginning Farmers Conference. The 25-year-old said he’s hoping to take over his parents’ 1,200-acre

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Ag Safety Week organizers encourage farmers to get with the plan

March 16, 2013

This March, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA), the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), and exclusive corporate sponsor Farm Credit Canada (FCC) want to encourage farmers to “Get with the Plan!” just in time for Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, March 10 to 16, 2013. Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW) is an annual public education campaign

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Farmers read to students

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 7, 2013

Farmers and agricultural industry representatives are in classrooms in schools across the country this week as part of Canadian Agriculture Literacy Week. The second annual event March 3 to 10, which is delivered in Manitoba by Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba, focuses on Grade 3 to 5 students in more than 40 schools in the province.

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FCC accused of overstepping its mandate

By Ron Friesen February 15, 2013

A new report by a leading public policy think-tank accuses Farm Credit Canada and other federal financial Crown corporations of “mission creep” by offering services far beyond their original mandates. The report by the C.D. Howe Institute recommends their authority “should be clearly circumscribed and even rolled back” so private lenders can do more to

Hogs, Livestock, News

KAP sets up Puratone meeting

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2012

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is hosting a meeting Dec. 3 to try and clarify where grain farmers owed money by Niverville-based Puratone stand. “We’re not going to be threatening people or making statements of claim,” KAP president Doug Chorney said in an interview Nov. 26. “We really just want to get the facts out because

Livestock, News

Puratone deal leaves farmers hanging

By Allan Dawson November 21, 2012

Manitoba farmers owed at least $1 million for feed grains delivered to financially troubled Puratone Corp. are left holding an empty bag with its pending sale to Maple Leaf. Earlier this month Maple Leaf Foods, which operates a hog-slaughtering plant in Brandon, announced it was buying Puratone for $42 million. Puratone’s liabilities total nearly $100

Hogs, Livestock, News

Maple Leaf to buy Puratone

By Shannon VanRaes November 15, 2012

Maple Leaf Food’s agreement to purchase the Niverville-based Puratone Corporation is good news for Manitoba hog producers, according to Manitoba Pork Council. “We’re happy to see that a Canadian company has purchased Puratone,” said council chairman, Karl Kynoch. “We want to see plants here that can compete with their American counterparts.” With two of the

News

ADM swoops on Australia’s GrainCorp in Asian push

October 26, 2012

sydney / reuters / Archer Daniels Midland has bought a 10 per cent stake in GrainCorp and is seeking talks on a takeover that would give the U.S. agribusiness a stronger platform to supply Asia. The purchase comes at a time of global consolidation in the agricultural sector amid intense competition to feed fast-developing countries

Livestock, News

FCC again offers $100,000 for ag safety projects

October 17, 2012

The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) is partnering with Farm Credit Canada (FCC) to make farm communities safer through the FCC Ag Safety Fund. CASA will be accepting applications for the third consecutive year from charitable and non-profit organizations that need support to deliver various farm safety training programs in their communities or across Canada.

Daily Network News

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Federal government to ease some restrictions on temporary foreign workers

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FCC honours five women leaders in agriculture

Young farmers optimistic about the future despite high cost of getting started

Ag Safety Week organizers encourage farmers to get with the plan

Farmers read to students

FCC accused of overstepping its mandate

KAP sets up Puratone meeting

Puratone deal leaves farmers hanging

Maple Leaf to buy Puratone

ADM swoops on Australia’s GrainCorp in Asian push

FCC again offers $100,000 for ag safety projects

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