by Breanne Baker | Mar 1, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Consolidation seems to be the reality of doing business today in agriculture. As companies become larger and there are less competitors surviving. Competing as an independent is a struggle and provides its own set of challenges. Recently at the CAAR convention...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 23, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It’s not surprising, but it is disheartening. The Canadian Wheat Board has released its first new crop price estimates for wheat, durum and barley. In most cases, the prices expected in the new crop year are even lower than the prices expected for the current crop...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 22, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alberta has a carbon offset program. Aggregators in that province have been putting together carbon offsets from farmers and ranchers and selling them to industry. Saskatchewan is widely rumored to be on the verge of implementing an in-province carbon trading system...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 19, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
DynAgra, an independent agri-retailer won top honours at the CAAR Choice Award last week in Regina. The Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers has awarded the 2009 Retailer of the Year to the Southern-Alberta based company. “We’re so excited to have won...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 3, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Canada has filed a WTO complaint against the American imposition of COOL – country of origin labeling. The main advocate of this expensive, protectionist legislation is the farm group known as R-CALF. If you can risk raising your blood pressure, listen to what...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 21, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Agrium has been busy this summer and fall acquiring independent dealers from across Western Canada. Ross Agri (central AB), Heartland Agro (southern SK) and Servagro (southern AB) were acquired in the first round and just last week RTL Services (southern AB) and...
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