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A young commercial date palm planting in California’s Coachella Valley. (RF Lee photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

By GFM Network News April 4, 2016

Sacramento | Reuters –– Residents and businesses in drought-stricken California cut back water use by nearly 25 per cent from June 2015 through the end of February 2016 — enough to supply nearly six million people for a year, officials said Monday. The state’s first ever mandatory cutbacks in water use were imposed by Democratic

Crops

B.C. pulls PST for farm telehandlers, skid steers

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2016

Qualifying farmers in British Columbia are now able to buy telehandlers, skid steers and polycarbonate greenhouse panels for farm use without paying the province’s seven per cent sales tax. The province on Thursday announced the additions, effective Feb. 17, to its list of goods, equipment and services for which eligible farmers are PST-exempt. Farmers wanting

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ConAgra, Kellogg, Mars to label for GMOs in U.S.

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 23, 2016

Reuters — ConAgra Foods has joined other food giants in plans to use labels that disclose the presence of genetically modified organisms or GMOs in its food throughout the U.S. ConAgra and other food companies such as Campbell Soup and General Mills have decided to use such labels nationwide, finding it to be the easiest way

(Photo courtesy General Mills via Flickr)

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General Mills to label GMOs in U.S. products

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein March 18, 2016

Reuters — General Mills on Friday said it would begin putting labels on its products that contain genetically engineered ingredients, a move that comes days after U.S. senators failed to advance legislation aimed at blocking Vermont from requiring such labels on July 1. U.S. consumer are calling for greater transparency around food production and sourcing,

Livestock

Foreign worker break for seafood sector a ‘one-time’ deal

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel March 17, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Canada’s move to loosen restrictions on hiring foreign workers for East Coast seafood plants was a one-time decision, and the government is not convinced other sectors need similar measures, the country’s employment minister said Thursday. The Liberal government eased restrictions under its foreign worker program recently for Atlantic seafood processors, allowing

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Australia dumps ‘backpacker tax’ over farm, export concerns

By GFM Network News, Matt Siegel March 16, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — Australia on Wednesday walked back from a planned tax hike on foreign travellers who work in the country, following concerns from farmers that their supply of “backpacker labour” at harvest times may dry up and undermine Australia’s ambitions of being Asia’s delicatessen. Australian fruit exports are set to hit a record

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U.S. Senate blocks bill that would override state GMO labeling laws

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Lisa Baertlein March 16, 2016

Reuters — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday blocked a bill that would nullify state and local efforts to require food makers to label products made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as the industry races to stop Vermont’s law from taking effect on July 1. The proposed legislation from Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas comes

Crops, Markets

Liberals pressed on PACA pledge for produce growers

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 12, 2016

The federal opposition New Democrats have cherry-picked a Liberal election promise to fruit and vegetable growers seeking insurance against U.S. and Canadian buyers who dodge their bills. Tracey Ramsey, the NDP’s international trade critic and MP for the southwestern Ontario riding of Essex, on Tuesday tabled a motion in the Commons for Canada to set

Our History

The benefits of certified seed from seed grower Seager Wheeler

Our History: March 1917

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 3, 2016

This cartoon from the March 7, 1917 edition of The Grain Growers’ Guide reinforced Canada’s role in supplying wheat to Britain, and fending off famine in the spectral form of the German enemy. In that issue, advice on “Grain growing for profit” came from now-famed seed grower Seager Wheeler. As evidence of the benefits of

Crops

Re-evaluation leads to retirement for Amitrol herbicide

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 11, 2016

Health concerns raised during the federal re-evaluation of Nufarm’s pre-seeding burndown herbicide Amitrol 240 have led the company to stop selling the product for nearly all uses in Canada, starting later this summer. The company said Wednesday it will retire Amitrol — a non-selective Group 11 liquid whose active ingredient, amitrole, has been on the

Daily Network News

Klassen: Feedlots scale down cattle purchases

Wet grain, Russian attacks on railways hit Ukrainian corn exports, union says

Feds pause update on food from cloned livestock

Apples

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

B.C. pulls PST for farm telehandlers, skid steers

ConAgra, Kellogg, Mars to label for GMOs in U.S.

General Mills to label GMOs in U.S. products

Foreign worker break for seafood sector a ‘one-time’ deal

Australia dumps ‘backpacker tax’ over farm, export concerns

U.S. Senate blocks bill that would override state GMO labeling laws

Liberals pressed on PACA pledge for produce growers

The benefits of certified seed from seed grower Seager Wheeler

Re-evaluation leads to retirement for Amitrol herbicide

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