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AgribusinessFCC's new Agri-food Project Finance programme has a 60-day expression-of-interest window for construction-ready processing and manufacturing projects too large or complex for ordinary lenders, part of Ottawa's National Food Security Strategy alongside C$150m for Velocity Agri-Capital Partners.
OrganicIndustry figures for Organic Month put Canadian organic sales at about C$11.88bn in 2025 and rank the country fifth in the world; Statistics Canada values certified organic fruit and vegetables at C$171.8m at the farm gate, with organic vegetables on 5.5% of field vegetable acreage.
Summerland Varieties Corp. and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada settled with Washington's Monson Fruit Company days before a 14 September trial: Monson pays royalties on past and future Staccato tree sales, cannot export the fruit until 2032 or propagate trees until 2029, and the money goes back int
A US$1.8m expansion of SDSU's Swine Education and Research Facility, paid for entirely by the state's corn, soybean, pork and livestock groups, lifts capacity to about 1,800 head by mid-October so more nursery and finishing trials can answer producers' questions.
LivestockThe BC Cattlemen's Association and Alberta Beef Producers have extended the Access to Feed Program across the provincial border so that BC producers short of forage after fire and drought can be matched with Alberta feed, pasture or feedlot space.
AgrotechAgriScience Program funding under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership will adapt the Toronto company's computer-vision system, built for apple growers, to estimate crop load, spot disease early and forecast yield in grape vineyards.
AgribusinessAnnounced by trade minister Maninder Sidhu, the agreement routes Canpotex potash to the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation through the Canadian Commercial Corporation; twelve such contracts since 2014 have delivered more than 3.5 million tonnes, and Canada's fertiliser exports rose 13.2
Kansas State doctoral student Kelechi Igwe combines drone imagery, air temperature and soil moisture to estimate stomatal conductance across whole fields; his machine-learning model, about 50% accurate, flagged stressed patches that still looked green.
EnvironmentThe Weather Network's fall forecast says Canada will be spared the worst of an El Nino expected to rank among the strongest on record: fewer October and November storms, a late start to winter, above-normal Prairie temperatures and near- to below-normal precipitation for most growing areas.
News reportPremier Doug Ford's 10 September cabinet shuffle moves Trevor Jones to labour and hands agriculture, food and agribusiness to Oosterhoff, whose Niagara West riding holds more than 1,600 farms, about 90% of Ontario's grapes and two-thirds of its tender fruit.
LivestockThe Agricultural Marketing Service has added 90 days to the comment period on whether US beef grade standards, which score marbling, yield, fat cover and ribeye area, should change; the review began with a request from the American Wagyu Association.
CropsFour years of corn-soybean data from the Dakota Lakes Research Farm (pH 7.7) show only about 45% of applied phosphorus carries over, and an 18 lb P2O5/acre starter band was the most profitable of three strategies at both $0.68 and $0.85 per pound and over 4- and 10-year horizons.
VegetablesThe CITT sent its six-month inquiry report on frozen and canned corn, peas, beans and chickpeas to cabinet on 9 September without publishing its finding; the finance minister says the 10% surtax on canned vegetable imports imposed on 10 June stays for its 200-day term or until final measures replace
