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A close-up screengrab from near 100 Mile House on the B.C. Wildfire Animal Resource Map. Tags in red denote producers with livestock needing to be moved; tags in green denote offers of space or transport for affected livestock.
Livestock, Weather

BCCA connecting ranchers, haulers in wildfire areas

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Livestock producers needing to move animals out of wildfire zones in British Columbia’s Interior are being asked to contact the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association. The BCCA, on its website, said it’s helping to co-ordinate haulers with producers who need to evacuate livestock. “With closures of highways and evacuation orders, permits are needed to re-enter evacuated areas
Livestock breeders and “Dairy don’ts”
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Livestock breeders and “Dairy don’ts”

Our History: July 1887

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Livestock breeders advertising in the July 1887 issue of The Nor-West Farmer and Manitoba Miller included the Binscarth Stock Farm (C.L. Smellie), Beresford Stock Farm in Brandon (J.E. Smith), Chas. H. Fox & Co. in Winnipeg, Breeze Lawn Stock Farm (Sharman and Sharman) in Souris and O.P. Skrine and R.H. Skrine of Grenfell — now
A rail line in Aguas Calientes, Peru. (CIA.gov)
Livestock

Pacific trade bloc adds ‘associate’ members, including Canada

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Cali, Colombia | Reuters –– Four new countries will be admitted to the Pacific Alliance as associate members, the trade group said on Thursday, as it seeks to expand commerce with the Asia-Pacific region while the U.S. pushes for protectionist measures. The alliance, which comprises Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru, will on Friday admit Singapore,
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Dairy cattle, Livestock

National dairy group loses executive director

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Caroline Emond has resigned as executive director of Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) after two and half years in the position. Emond will be stepping down effective July 4, DFC announced Wednesday. Emond has dealt with some significant files and changes to dairy marketing since she replaced long-time retiring executive director Richard Doyle. She has
Crops, Opinion

Opinion: Attacks against GMOs? Why I take it personally

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I’m a farmer who likes to scroll through Twitter. Not long ago, a tweet popped up from a Manitoba farmer criticizing a local cheese maker for pasting Non-GMO Project Verified labels on some products. It started a conversation that I’ve seen a hundred times online: Should companies be able to market whatever and however they
Groups across Canada’s agriculture and food sectors feel the time is right for a national food policy.
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Farm and food talks bring new voices to the policy table

The national food policy development process will pull many out of their comfort zone

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The meeting the Canadian Federation of Agriculture hosted in Ottawa June 5 wasn’t the usual assembly of farmers. Participants included a broad spectrum of stakeholders with an interest in food, including Food Secure Canada, the Nutrition Resource Centre of the Ontario Public Health Association, the Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security and the
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Five policy priorities for food and agriculture

Several initiatives are taking place concurrently at the national level

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The federal government is looking at agriculture and food policy from five different perspectives: The National Food Policy, with the potential to define long-term agriculture and food guidelines. The Liberal government campaigned on creating a National Food Policy. It was identified in Agriculture and Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s mandate letter and Fraser said the Prime

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