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Farmers Edge is a digital agronomy firm that offers services such as variable rate nutrition management and FarmCommand, a data management and analytics platform. Farmers Edge, founder and former CEO Wade Barnes, former chief financial officer David Patrick, Fairfax Financial Holdings and several financial underwriters are named in the suit asking for a combined total of $270 million in damages. | Screencap via farmersedge.ca
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Farmers Edge disputes merits of claim made by former investors

Proposed class action suite alleges investors received misleading information prior to the company's 2021 IPO

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Former investors in Manitoba-based ag tech firm Farmers Edge have asked the B.C. Supreme Court to certify a class action lawsuit against the company, former leaders and its main shareholder. Farmers Edge, founder and former CEO Wade Barnes, former chief financial officer David Patrick, Fairfax Financial Holdings and several financial underwriters are named in the suit asking for a combined total of $270 million in damages.
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Former Manitoba man sues Bayer for causing his cancer

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A Calgary man who lived on a farm in Carman, Man., as a child has filed a lawsuit saying chemicals he was exposed to resulted in a cancer diagnosis. The plaintiffs in the case are Kevin Giesbrecht and his common-law spouse, Jennifer McAlpine, who now live in Calgary. According to court documents, Giesbrecht lived on
Mud and fallen motorcycles are seen following a Sept. 24, 2022, crash near Steinbach.
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Mud slick sparks lawsuit against Manitoba dairy

MPI suing eastern Manitoba farm following motorcycle crash

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Keystone Agricultural Producers says it’s closely following a lawsuit filed against a Steinbach-area dairy farm. The lawsuit centres around a local highway mudslick believed to have caused a deadly motorcycle accident in 2022. The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation, which filed the suit, says it was left behind by the farmer or farm staff. MPI has
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Court remedy sought for unfulfilled contracts

Sask. company claims equipment breakdown at a third-party mill caused it to declare force majeure on contracted oats

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More than two dozen farmers are moving ahead with legal action against Purely Canada Foods after it failed to honour contracts for gluten-free oats. The dispute centres on 2022 gluten-free oat contracts. On March 1, 2023, the company sent a letter to the farmers saying it was voiding the contracts because oat processing machinery had failed the previous fall and it couldn’t accept the crop.
EU member states will be told to pay particular attention to the protection of animals such as voles or wildflowers in risk analyses.
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EU extends glyphosate authorization

European farmers will be able to use the herbicide for at least another decade, but it’s not without conditions

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Reuters – The European Union has authorized the use of glyphosate for 10 more years, but there will be new conditions, the EU Commission announced Nov. 16. The current period of authorization was set to expire in mid-December. New restrictions will include measures to protect animals and plants that are not the actual target of glyphosate use. The
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Impossible Foods sues startup Motif Foodworks over meatless burger patent

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Reuters – Meatless burger maker Impossible Foods is suing competitor Motif Foodworks, accusing the startup of copying its technology for imitating the taste of real meat. The U.S. lawsuit, filed in Delaware Federal Court, said Motif, a spinoff of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks infringes an Impossible Foods patent by using the protein molecule heme in

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