Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 6054 Alberta, with operations beginning this fall. “SynergyAG is the natural progression of our family’s 60 years in seed and crop nutrition retail,” says Brad Hanmer, president and CEO of SynergyAG. The Hanmer family also operates a fifth-generation farm and the Hanmer Seeds business. Planned Saskatchewan locations include Govan, Lewvan and Lumsden. The fourth location is planned for Provost, Alta. Agrium’s Crop Production Services has reached a deal with the Competition Bureau to sell four retail outlets in Alberta to address concerns about reduced fertilizer competition resulting from its proposed purchase of Andrukow Group Solutions. CPS announced an agreement-in-principle in April to purchase Andrukow Group and all of its assets, including 17 crop input retail stores in Alberta, located at Amisk, Camrose, Clyde- Flatlander, Daysland, Dewberry, Gaudin (Fort Saskatchewan), Mundare, Paradise Valley, Provost, Rycroft, Ryley, Sedgewick, St. Paul, Strathmore, Viking, Wainwright and Waskatenau, and one site in Marsden, Saskatchewan. Monsanto announced that its board of directors unanimously viewed Bayer AG’s revised proposal of $64 billion to acquire the company as financially inadequate and insufficient. Afterward, the German pharmaceutical and agriculture company raised its offer price once again, to US $127.50 per share — up from $125 in early July and $122 in the initial proposal issued in May. Reuters and CNBC are citing sources that say Monsanto is telling Bayer it is “close” with its price, and that a deal could happen within a matter of weeks. WGI Westman Group has acquired the manufacturing assets from a competitor in the grain bin business. The parent company of Meridian and Behlen has bought Norstar Manufacturing’s grain bin production assets, land and buildings in Morris, Man., as well as Norstar’s bin and tank manufacturing assets in Aylmer, Ont. Syngenta’s stock price jumped more than 10 per cent after news the company’s acquisition by China National Chemical Corporation — aka ChemChina — cleared a major hurdle in the United States. Both companies announced the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has granted its approval for the proposed US$43 billion takeover announced back in February. The committee’s role is to review national security implications of foreign investments in the U.S.