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1. Growers hopeful about plant takeover

   ... Growers. In a Jan. 17 press release, ConAgra announced it has reached an agreement to buy all of Del Monte branded packaged fruit, ... harvested until he signs a contract in the spring to grow a new crop for a processor. Experienced growers can and do lose contracts. ...

   Mary Baxter - Jan 18 2012 - 16:43 - 3 comments

2. Atwood rendering plant resumes business after fire

   ... building “so we don’t know what the damage is inside the new gasification plant as of yet.” Officials don’t yet know how the ... The company, which handles all species, processes about 80 per cent of all bovine deadstock collected in Ontario and 90 per cent of all ...

   Mary Baxter - Dec 22 2014 - 20:14 - 0 comments

3. What the #@*! was that? The March 28, USDA report

   ... rise in order to curtail consumption, and that’s exactly what happened.  Since the start of the drought concerns in early June of 2012, ... which was safely in the bin sky-rocketed on the suffering new crop that was still growing). With the big old crop stocks based price ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 5 2013 - 18:12 - 0 comments

4. Organic co-op files proposals to repay creditors

   ... company about two years ago, is "looking forward to seeing what the proposal is." McQuail says the directors he has contacted "have been ... Meadow's members to continue to "play an active role in the new entity, whatever it is," she says. Since Organic Meadow started its ...

   dstoneman - Aug 14 2015 - 17:12 - 0 comments

5. Dollars to boost ginseng

   ... growing regions, Ontario has taken the cultivation to a new level with its own variety and cultivation practices that have been copied ... billion or so Chinese who've grown up with "Yang" ginseng, what's the attraction, other than oriental superstition, of "Yin" ginseng? ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 5 2011 - 15:08 - 3 comments

6. RMP slammed in fiscal commission report

   ... to the Ontario government released this week on what it must do to balance its budget by 2018. If nothing is done, the report ... regulatory reform. Wales says Drummond introduced a new term – “jurisdictional crowding” – that he’s going to start ...

   dstoneman - Feb 19 2012 - 16:39 - 6 comments

7. ‘I’m trying to find justice for the victims’ says former PKI investor

   ... that she was determined to come to Canada – “no matter what” – to testify against Arlan Galbraith and to seek justice for a long ... agent had encouraged her to complete the deal before the new year, when the price of the pigeons was to have gone up. But, Thayer said, ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 18 2014 - 17:30 - 0 comments

8. Proposed waste changes add paperwork, costs

   ... of 42 cents a kilogram on bagged fertilizer. Hunter says what the ministry is really doing “is trying to find a way to tax an industry ... as a means of waste diversion and incorporate it into its new rules. Grain Farmers of Ontario spokesperson Erin Fletcher says the ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 11 2012 - 15:12 - 1 comment

9. Chatham-Kent claims province’s top yields in 2015

   ... average, he adds, and premiums have gone down compared to what they were 10 years ago, “just because the crop insurance fund is in a ... would be lower for 2016. “I haven’t seen the (new) numbers compared to last year,” he says, noting the numbers will be ...

   Mary Baxter - Jan 22 2016 - 10:14 - 0 comments

10. Wheat producers in east revolt against their board

    ... action sends a message to the Grain Growers of Ontario (the new amalgamated wheat, corn and soy producer board takes effect this fall). ... to be analyzed, and discussed, in a more public way than what might otherwise happen. If Vanderspank was taking public issue with ...

    dstoneman - Apr 10 2012 - 11:51 - 5 comments