Farmers will be able to submit up to two applications to the program, depending on their needs, with successful recipients receiving up to $90,000 depending on the project category, they said.
The program will continue to be administered by the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association.
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Costco is recalling its Kirkland brand Greek yogourt packaged in 24 servings because of mould.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said the microbial contamination is not harmful, though stores and consumers are told not to use, sell, serve or distribute the affected product.
Additional protections have been applied in the townships of Melancthon, Amaranth and East Garafraxa in Wellington County.
The GRCA source water protection plan came into effect July 1, 2016.
Ontario’s conservation authorities were mandated to develop source water protection plans following a disastrous poisoning of Walkerton’s water supply with E. coli bacteria. Seven people died and more than 2,000 were sickened.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports that there was only one case of rabies in Ontario in August.
Unfortunately a rabid bat bit a Brandford woman while she was in Temiskaming the first week of September.
General Mills has sold its yogourt business which features Yoplait and Liberté brands for $2.1 billion.
Sodiaal is buying the Canadian operations and Lactalis the business in the United States.
The U.S. plant has its head offices at Golden Valley, Minnesota.
The Canadian operations are centred at Ste. Hyacinthe, Que.
General Mills bought the company in 2011, paying $1.2 billion for 51 per cent of thee shares. The business was a co-operative started by dairy farmers in France.
Sodiall made another deal with General Mills in 2021 when it bought the Yoplait business in Europe.
Sodiaal has been in Canada since 1971, but this deal is a return to Canada.
Sodiaal is the leading French dairy cooperative, with 15,300 farmers spread across 72 departments and franchises in 40 countries.
This week it’s beef farmers. Recently it was pork producers.
Nearly three dozen groups associated with beef production, ranching and the environment signed on to a letter sent to United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai, asking for her support to restore mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) for beef.
Producer organizations, including Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) have persistently lobbied to keep MCOOL issues part of the national legislative conversation.
The World Trade Organization ruled in 2014 that such meat labeling law violates U.S. international trade obligations by discriminating against Canadian cattle and pigs and Mexican cattle.
But before that decision came down, Canadians lost hundreds of millions of dollars to depressed prices for cattle and hogs and had to pay lawyers and consultants millions of dollars to achieve justice.
Grupo Bimbo, now the owner of Canada Bread Co., is suing Maple Leaf Foods over price-fixing bread.
Canada Bread paid a $50-million fine to Revenue Canada when it admitted that the company was involved in price-fixing.
But now Canada Bread is accusing senior executives of Maple Leaf Foods for the price-fixing scam.
That would presumably include then-president and chief executive officer Michael McCain.
Remember him, the guy who said when his father bought control of Maple Leaf Foods, that he would bury the Ontario pork marketing board which existed to protect farmers from corporate buyers?
Canada Bread’s parent company, Mexico-based Grupo Bimbo, has previously said that it was unaware of the company’s role in fixing bread prices before its $1.83-billion acquisition in 2014, and was unaware of the details of the price-fixing arrangements until the Bureau’s investigation became public in 2017.
In June of 2023, the company pleaded guilty to the criminal scheme, acknowledging that Canada Bread made “arrangements” with one or more senior executives at competitor Weston Foods leading to two wholesale price increases in 2007 and 2011.
In a court filing on Thursday, Canada Bread argued that it is entitled to damages from Maple Leaf related to that investigation, including the fine; further damages for “breach of contract,” “fraudulent misrepresentation” and “unjust enrichment”; as well as any damages that may arise from an ongoing class-action lawsuit related to the alleged scheme.
But Canada Bread is arguing that it is not liable to the plaintiffs in that lawsuit because, “until May of 2014, Maple Leaf – then the company’s controlling shareholder – exercised control over the affairs and activities” of Canada Bread.
In its amended statement of defence and crossclaim related to the class action, which was filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Thursday, Canada Bread alleged that it was “a victim of a scheme conceived by Maple Leaf” to use it as a “shield” for unlawful conduct.
“Maple Leaf, through its personnel acting as senior officers or members of the Board of Directors controlling and directing Canada Bread, knew or ought to have known of any anticompetitive conduct by Canada Bread,” the company stated in the court document.