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Harley and Brooklyn Siemens with their children, (left to right) Beckett, TaNielle and Sawyer.

A showcase in successful farm succession

Faces of Ag: Rosenort egg farmers earn Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers’ award

By Don Norman April 5, 2023

[UPDATED: Apr. 6, 2023] For fourth-generation egg farmers Harley and Brooklyn Siemens, the news that they had been named Manitoba’s 2023 Outstanding Young Farmers was met with a mix of thrill and humility. “We were very honoured,” Harley Siemens said. “We’re proud of our accomplishments and all the work that we’ve put into our farm.” The Rosenort-area

Close-up of a McDonald’s double Quarter Pounder with bacon. (Corporate.mcdonalds.com)

Livestock, Markets

McDonald’s reported laying off hundreds of corporate employees

Layoffs don't include restaurant-level workers

By GFM Network News, Hilary Russ April 4, 2023

New York | Reuters — The number of corporate employees McDonald’s Corp. plans to lay off this week will tally in the “hundreds,” a source familiar with the burger chain’s thinking said on Monday, as the company moves forward with a previously announced restructuring. The fast-food company is closing its offices “out of respect,” and

‘We cannot allow further deterioration of supply management, and keeping supply management healthy does not have to be at the expense of other commodities that need more trade.’

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Bill C-282 supports supply management

Trade deals cannot keep picking at supply management protections

By National Farmers Union March 31, 2023

Bill C-282, which would amend the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, would ensure future trade deals do not weaken or eliminate the import controls that allow Canada’s supply managed sectors to function. On March 9, the Standing Committee on International Trade held a hearing on the bill, and the National Farmers Union recommended full

Weather

Carbon price exemption for farm gas clears Commons

Bill C-234 next headed to Senate

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 30, 2023

Legislative amendments that would exempt farmers’ eligible purchases of natural gas and propane from federal carbon pricing are now en route to Canada’s Senate. Bill C-234, a private member’s bill sponsored by Ben Lobb, the Conservative MP for the southern Ontario riding of Huron-Bruce, passed third reading for adoption in the House of Commons on

Markets

Food sales grew but margins tightened in 2022, FCC says

Modest further growth expected this year

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff March 28, 2023

Food and beverages sales increased in Canada last year, even as margins hit an historic low and consumers chose Canadian less. According to the latest FCC Food and Beverage Report, released Tuesday, sales increased 11 per cent to $156 billion in 2022. These gains came largely from higher export values and strength in the grain

Markets, News

U.S. to up meat label requirements

By Leah Douglas March 17, 2023

Reuters – U.S. ranchers lobbying for tighter rules on meat origin labelling got a win in early March. Meat, poultry or eggs labelled as a U.S. product must come from animals raised and slaughtered within the country under a rule proposed by the Biden administration March 6. Existing rules for the label permit its use

File photo of young birds on a Canadian broiler operation. (Elena Bionysheva-Abramova/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

B.C. farmers granted late entry for AgriStability

Avian flu, 'extreme weather' events considered

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 17, 2023

With bird flu outbreaks and last spring’s weather woes in mind, farmers and ranchers in British Columbia are now spotted until the end of June to enrol in AgriStability. The province and the federal ag department on Tuesday announced they’ve agreed on a late participation option for the 2022 program year. In this case, the

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

High-path avian flu pops back up in southern Ontario

Three outbreaks in Canadian poultry this month, plus skunks

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 16, 2023

Feather industry officials are calling for “extreme caution” among poultry farmers after cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza turned up at two southern Ontario properties in the past week. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it has confirmed cases of the virus detected last Friday in a backyard poultry flock in the municipality of Chatham-Kent,

Livestock

Meat lobby says U.S. voluntary label rule could spur trade action

Ottawa to review Washington's proposed 'Product of USA' rule

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 8, 2023

U.S. meat industry lobbyists say Washington’s proposed new rules governing voluntary ‘Product of USA’ or ‘Made in the USA’ labels would “impose the same standard” as that country’s now-defunct mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law — and frustrate U.S. packers who import Canadian meat or livestock. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Food Safety and

Today’s farms are bigger, more resourceful, and more efficient.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Farmland prices continue to go up… and up

Farmland is getting expensive, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing

By Sylvain Charlebois March 3, 2023

We all know what’s happening to real estate these days. Everything got more expensive in a hurry, fueled by rock-bottom interest rates. But farming has also been impacted by lower interest rates and investors looking for safety and better yields. The increase in farmland value in Canada has been nothing short of spectacular. The value

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle sink ahead of semi-annual inventory report

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat futures firm on recent dollar slide, winter weather

Feed Grains Weekly: More consideration being given to U.S. corn

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