By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Friday June 17, 2022

Jun 17, 2022 | 11:31 AM

MELFORT, Sask. — Cereals Canada released its 2021 annual report, providing an overview of how the organization worked to support the value chain and make progress on its key objectives, despite industry-wide challenges.

Board chair, Todd Hames, said in the last year, the entire industry came together to support each other.

“We experienced drought, excess moisture, floods, geopolitical crisis, evolving marketplace concerns, and government regulation, yet we continued to maneuver through these events to help Canadian farmers,” Hames said.

Cereals Canada focused on the strategic areas of market access and advocacy, market support and development, growing Canadian demand, and market and technical research.

Chief executive officer, Dean Dias, said their mission is support the cereals value chain and customers around the world.

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“While this past year provided challenges, we delivered on our promise to the industry,” Dias said. “Looking ahead, we are committed to strengthening our relationships and continuing to promote Canadian cereals around the world.”

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Farmers Business Network is expanding its footprint on the prairies.

The crop input retailer has started construction on a 198,000 square foot facility in Saskatoon, Sask.

The new building will replace two existing Saskatoon warehouses.

Most of the crop inputs the company sells are herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. It also stocks biologicals and nutritionals as well as small-scale fertility products.

FBN has locations in Regina and Yorkton as well as B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario.

Construction is scheduled to be completed in November.

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Organic Alberta will hold its annual conference July 8 and 9 in Stony Plain, Alta.

The event will include information sessions from conventional and organic extension experts and researchers discussing soil health and cover crops.

The conference is for farmers who are certified organic, low-input, conventional, regenerative, or producers who are just starting out.

More information is available here.

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alice.mcfarlane@pattisonmedia.com

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