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Ottawa plans talks toward dairy farmers’ CETA compensation

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 2, 2016

The federal government has pledged to meet with dairy sector representatives within 30 days to draw up a compensation plan for concessions made in Canada’s planned free trade pact with the European Union. “Our conversations will address, among other issues, transition support for producers and processors, as well as proposed program and investment options,” Agriculture

Dairy cattle, Local news

Lack of processing capacity leaves Manitoba milk producers short

More butterfat means more skim milk, which means Manitoba dairy farmers  need access to more processing capacity

By Shannon VanRaes May 2, 2016

An imbalance in processing capacity has left Manitoba dairy farmers unable to fully use the province’s quota allocation. Speaking at a recent producer meeting in Steinbach, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba chairman David Wiens said the organization is working with processors and creating a new class of milk designed to increase investment in the province, while

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Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

By GFM Network News, Marc Frank April 30, 2016

Havana | Reuters –– Cuba decided at a secretive Communist Party congress last week to reverse market reforms in food distribution and pricing, according to reports in official media, reflecting tensions within the party about the pace of economic change. President Raul Castro unveiled an ambitious market reform agenda in one of the world’s last

Livestock, Markets

U.S., European trade negotiators battle political headwinds

By David Lawder, GFM Network News April 30, 2016

New York | Reuters — Facing deeply entrenched differences and political headwinds, the top negotiators trying to reach a sweeping U.S.-European free trade deal avoided agriculture, public procurement and other thorny issues in talks this week. Instead, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Daniel Mullaney and European Commission lead negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercera said on Friday they

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Canada may delay foreign worker limits as packers, farms face squeeze

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel April 28, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada may delay implementing new restrictions on the use of foreign workers as farmers and meat processors warn of severe labour shortages in one of the world’s biggest agricultural exporters, the employment minister said. Employers have reported difficulty finding workers despite a 7.1 per cent unemployment rate. Many Canadians resist jobs

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers step up pressure on Ottawa over diafiltered milk

Milk producers say the rules around diafiltered milk in cheese making need to be enforced

By Alex Binkley April 27, 2016

Dairy Farmers of Canada and a coalition of Quebec farmers and processors are stepping up the pressure on the federal government to curb importation of diafiltered milk. They’re calling on the government to enforce eight-year-old changes to cheese compositional standards that barred the use of high-protein milk products. DFC president Wally Smith joined Quebec Agriculture

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Farms.com buys Better Farming

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 26, 2016

A U.S. online agriculture firm has taken another step into paper and ink with a deal for independent Ontario ag journal Better Farming. Ames, Iowa-based Farms.com announced last week it has taken a majority stake in Better Farming publisher Ag Media Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Ag Media was formed in 1999 by ex-employees of

Replacing butter with vegetable oils might not be as healthy as originally thought.

Did you know?, News

Did butter get a bad rap?

It’s not health food, but butter may be healthier than other options  like high-linoleic acid oils

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 25, 2016

Butter might be better. Since the 1960s, consumers have been told to swap butter and other saturated fats with “heart healthy” options like vegetable oils high in linoleic acid. Now a re-examination of previously unpublished data from the study that first made that claim is casting doubt. Researchers at the University of North Carolina School

Crops, Weather

California communities beg for relief from drought restrictions

By GFM Network News April 21, 2016

Sacramento | Reuters — California communities where a wet winter has filled reservoirs and begun ameliorating the state’s catastrophic four-year drought begged water regulators on Wednesday to reduce or eliminate emergency conservation measures imposed last year. Facing pushback from aggravated consumers under the ongoing rules, water utilities say they will have little credibility asking for

Opinion

Editorial: The trouble with science: it changes

By Laura Rance-Unger April 21, 2016

Growing up on the farm in the 1960s, two events caused a dramatic shift in the family’s eating habits. First, the cow died. She was replaced with skim milk powder, which scientifically speaking, offered similar nutrition, was less expensive, stored better and was much more convenient than maintaining a cow and milking two times a

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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