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Filiz Koskel, recipient of the Terry G. Falconer Memorial Rh Institute Foundation Emerging Researcher Award in the Applied Sciences.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Playing with food never gets old

FACES OF AG | Filiz Koskel continues a family tradition of working in food and agriculture

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A Manitoba researcher specializing in plant proteins has won an award for emerging researchers. Filiz Koskel was one recipient of the Terry G. Falconer Memorial Award from the Winnipeg Rh Institute, aimed at rewarding early-career researchers. She is a food science researcher at the Food and Human Nutritional Sciences Department at the University of Manitoba
A Savoye X-PTS shuttle. Scott Technology has had a joint venture agreement in place with Savoye since 2020 to use Savoye automated carton storage and retrieval systems in Scott material handling systems. Scott said it also plans to use the Savoye system in its project for JBS at Brooks. (ScottAutomation.com)
Beef cattle, Livestock

JBS to automate beef warehousing at Brooks

Packer to replace current fully manual system

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International meat packer JBS has enlisted a major robotics and automation company to overhaul the warehousing system at one of Canada’s biggest beef plants. JBS Foods Canada on Friday announced a $71 million project in partnership with New Zealand-based Scott Technology, to design and build a system that can handle and store up to 85,000
Industry insiders worry the chemical shortages could continue for at least one more season.
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‘Off the charts’ chemical shortages hit U.S. farms, expected to linger

Suppliers say expect supply chain snarling to last at least another year

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Reuters – U.S. farmers have cut back on using common herbicides, hunted for substitutes to popular fungicides and changed planting plans over persistent shortages of agricultural chemicals that threaten to trim harvests. Spraying smaller volumes of herbicides and turning to less-effective fungicides increases the risk for weeds and diseases to reduce crop production at a
(GFM Staff photo)
Beef cattle, Livestock

National cattle producer group rebrands

Former Canadian Cattlemen's Association renamed

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Canada’s national beef cattle producer body is rebranding under a slightly shorter new name that serves in part to clear away any potential whiff of a guys-only club. The organization formerly known as the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association on Thursday launched what it describes as a “a new brand identity, highlighting the strong and diverse group
Greece offers ships to export grain from blocked Ukrainian ports, NATO says
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Greece offers ships to export grain from blocked Ukrainian ports, NATO says

Commercial maritime superpower says it has “special role” to play in effort

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Greece is willing to provide ships to help export grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports that have been blocked by Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said June 29. Ukraine is one of the top global wheat suppliers, but shipments have been halted by Russia’s invasion, causing global food shortages. The United Nations has appealed to
Canada needs a new in-depth approach to the Indo-Pacific region and that’s important to agriculture.
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Is Canada’s coming Indo-Pacific strategy too little, too late?

Canada has high hopes to grow its agriculture trade in the Indo-Pacific region but strategists say Canada must look beyond trade or face continued irrelevance

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If Canada wants to continue to grow its agriculture trade in one of the fastest growing regions of the globe, it needs a new strategy. It needs to reconsider its ‘trade mission’ diplomacy strategy in the Indo-Pacific region and become relevant to the countries there. “Economic interests can no longer be separated from broader foreign
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Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

New CEO named for Canadian Dairy Commission

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The Canadian Dairy Commission has hired from within for its new chief executive. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Wednesday announced Benoit Basillais, the CDC’s director of policy and economics, became the Crown corporation’s new CEO effective Monday. Basillais replaces Serge Riendeau, the dairy producer and former Agropur Co-operative president who’s been the CDC’s chief
The World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 28, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: WTO steps back from the brink

But repairing long-standing problems still requires solid efforts

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After decades of conflict that has neutered its work, the World Trade Organization looks to be back in business. Its highest decision-making body – a conference of ministers from the organization’s 164 member nations – has just met for the first time since 2017. None of what the ministerial conference (dubbed MC12 due to being
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Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: The world’s inefficient food web

The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows

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The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found. It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector – and affluent countries make a disproportionately

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