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Farmers’ debt seen hitting fresh record high

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Reuters — Canadian farmers’ debt will likely reach another record high this year, while land appreciation slows and incomes flatten, but the industry is still in strong financial shape, the country’s biggest agriculture lender, Farm Credit Canada, forecast on Tuesday. FCC, the federal Crown ag lending agency, sounded a note of caution for farmers, who
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Diesel prices look to settle in for fall, early winter

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CNS Canada — Canadian diesel prices appear to be settling in for a relatively uneventful autumn, according to an industry watcher. “Unless we get a vortex kind of winter, when a lot of diesel is used for heating purposes, I think it’s another cheap autumn-winter scenario shaping up,” said Tom Kloza of the Oil Price
Manitoba’s chief public health inspector says community suppers have a good food safety track record and new guidelines will help make the standards clear to organizers.
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New guidelines for community suppers published

Manitoba’s chief public health inspector hopes to silence the critics 
who say food safety rules are too prohibitive

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A new provincial guideline for safe food preparation at community dinners should help their hosts know what the public health inspector expects, says the province’s chief public health inspector. He also hopes the Community Dinner Guidelines now posted on Manitoba Health’s website, helps allay concerns that public health inspectors’ food safety requirements are making it
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Canada/EU trade deal remains mired in uncertainty

Ratification of the historic Canada-EU trade and investment pact is anything but a sure thing

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With just two months to go before the scheduled signing of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union, things are up in the air. There’s uncertainty over what the deal will entail, and nobody’s sure if ratification is going to happen. The U.K. is on the way out of
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Livestock

Chile plans to send TPP deal to Congress this year

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Santiago | Reuters — The Chilean government is expecting to send the Pacific trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to its Congress for approval by the end of 2016, President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday. The 12-nation TPP aims to liberalize commerce in 40 per cent of the world’s economy, but its future is
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Dairy cattle, Livestock

Australia competition watchdog to widen dairy investigation

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Sydney | Reuters — Australia’s competition watchdog will launch a broad investigation into the country’s dairy industry, the country’s deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said on Thursday. The investigation comes after Australia’s largest dairy processor Murray Goulburn and New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group in April reduced their farm gate prices, or what they pay farmers
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Livestock, Markets

Pettigrew tapped to help push through EU trade deal

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has named a former politician with experience in trade and foreign affairs as the government’s new envoy to help complete its long-negotiated free trade agreement with the European Union, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Pierre Pettigrew, who served as both minister of foreign affairs and minister for international trade under previous

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