NORTHERN PULP RECEIVES FINAL INSTALLMENT OF PROVINCIAL FUNDS . . . DAIRY FARM’S BIOGAS SYSTEM HONOURED BY BIONB . . . CANADA’S “BIG THREE” DAIRY PROCESSORS POISED TO PROFIT FROM TPP . . . CHICKEN FARMERS EAGER FOR TIGHTER BORDER . . . FOR THIS OYSTER FARMER, IT’S ALL IN THE FAMILY . . . OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST...

NORTHERN PULP RECEIVES FINAL INSTALLMENT OF PROVINCIAL FUNDS
Source: Pulp & Paper Canada
The province of Nova Scotia is making the final disbursement to Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corp. under the now-closed Jobs Fund program. In April 2013, government committed $21.7 million in loans and earned incentives to the company for capital projects to improve air quality and efficiency, including a new precipitator, wood chip plant construction and natural gas conversion. (read more)

DAIRY FARM’S BIOGAS SYSTEM HONOURED BY BIONB
Source: The Chronicle Herald You could say Rock Laforge operates the dairy farm of the future, and that’s why he received the 2015 New Brunswick Bioscience Achievement Award. A fourth-generation farmer from Saint-Andre (50 km southeast of Edmundston), Laforge heads Laforge Bioenvironmental, which powers his farm by burning the gas produced by waste products. The residue is then used as fertilizer. The facility even produces enough electricity that it sells some to NB Power’s grid. (read more)

CANADA’S “BIG THREE” DAIRY PROCESSORS POISED TO PROFIT FROM TPP
Source: The Bullvine
Canada’s biggest cheese and yogurt makers look poised to profit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, though even the companies say details are so scarce they simply don’t know exactly what greater foreign market access will mean to their bottom lines. Bertrand Montel, a Montreal-based agriculture consultant, says because Canada’s so-called “big three” – Saputo Inc., Agropur, and Parmalat – have operations in the United States they may be able to negotiate better deals on dairy ingredients with suppliers on either side of the border. (read more)

CHICKEN FARMERS EAGER FOR TIGHTER BORDER
Source: OntarioFarmer.com
The Chicken Farmers of Canada national supply management agency says it supports the deal finalized this week by 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. While it has concerns about the increase in allowable imports, it welcomes the promise to crack down on imports the agency considers illegal. “As a result of the TPP agreement, Canada will be required to increase its market access for chicken by 28 percent to almost 10 percent of our consumption,” says the agency. (read more)

FOR THIS OYSTER FARMER, IT’S ALL IN THE FAMILY
Source: Truro Daily News
Most farmers don’t want too much water on their land, but the Purdy family can’t get enough of it. In fact 200 acres of their farmland is on the bottom of the ocean. Charles and Nancy Purdy, with the help of their daughter Rachel, own and operate Bay Enterprises, an oyster farm in Malagash. Charles took over management of the farm from his grandfather in 1962, and in 1996 restarted the oyster farming that the Purdy ancestors had been involved in since 1868. The Purdy family's agricultural farm started in 1783 with both land and sea farming. They currently only farm the sea, but still own much of the land. (read more)