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No silver bullet for food price inflation

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Canadian food price inflation has many causes, but grocers gouging customers isn't one of them, Michael von Massow of the University of Guelph said during the Fields on Wheels conference hosted by the University of Manitoba Dec. 14.   Even the carbon tax hasn’t had much impact, according to the associate professor of food economics.[...]
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Calling grain farmers: Feedback needed on seed modernization next steps

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[UPDATED: Apr. 23, 2024] As farmers enter one of their busiest times, they’re being asked to help shape Canada’s future seed regulations via online survey. The survey (found at the Government of Canada website) closes May 1 and is part of the seed regulatory modernization (SRM) process launched in September 2020 by the Canadian Food[...]
International news, News

Canada-U.S. ag trade worth billions, deputy ambassador says

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Washington, D.C. — Agricultural trade between Canada and the United States is important and valuable to both countries, officials told journalists from both countries April 25. “We literally grow things together to feed communities at home and around the world,” Canada’s deputy ambassador, Arun Alexander, told members of North American Agricultural Journalists during their visit[...]
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Grain sector says government should fund Grain Research Lab

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The Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) Grain Research Laboratory (GRL) is a public good and therefore the Canadian government should fund its work, rather the grain sector. That’s a recommendation a number of farm and grain industry groups make in their submissions to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) review of the Canada Grain Act and the[...]
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Farmers' friend in high places

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It’s about 6,700 kilometres from a farm near Wilcox, Sask., to Canada House on London’s historic Trafalgar Square. But the road that took a long-serving Canadian politician from that village, population 322, to heading Canada’s second-largest diplomatic mission is even longer. Ralph Goodale is a familiar name to Prairie farmers. He served as member of[...]
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Kinew finds inner Pallister

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Manitoba NDP premier Wab Kinew apparently isn’t afraid to borrow ideas, even from Brian Pallister, his one-time foe, former premier and once leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Kinew argues that Manitoba deserves a better deal on the federal government’s carbon pricing scheme, based on how much Manitobans have invested in hydroelectric power. That investment, in[...]
Farmit Manitoba

Canada’s chief grain inspector knows the grain industry

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Derek Bunkowsky, chief grain inspector for Canada, is committed to fulfilling his statutory duties. After all, it’s his signature that is on the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) Certificate Final guaranteeing the grade of every bulk export of Canadian grain leaving the country by ship. “I take that very seriously,” Bunkowsky said in an interview Dec.[...]
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Supply management views especially strong

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Supply management is a controversial policy and was since implemented for Canadian production of milk, eggs, chicken and turkey in the 1970s. How people feel about it is shaped by their ‘big-picture world views,’ including wealth redistribution, inequality, free trade and political party support, said University of Manitoba agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell while delivering the[...]
Livestock, News

U.S. beef pricing bill on Canadian radar

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The United States is pondering federal legislation to boost competition among beef packers and improve cattle price discovery, and the Canadian cattle industry is watching closely. “Producers in general, but more specifically cattle and beef producers on both sides of the border, crave better price transparency and price discovery,” Manitoba Beef Producers president Tyler Fulton[...]

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