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Syngenta’s Interaction Centre at Stein, Switzerland. (Syngenta.com)

China clears ChemChina’s Syngenta deal

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 12, 2017

Zurich | Reuters — ChemChina’s US$43 billion planned takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta has received approval from China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the two companies said Wednesday. “This represents a further step towards the closing of the transaction, which is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2017,” they said

Livestock

Manitoba pulls less-loved ag tax credits in budget

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 11, 2017

More funding for agriculture innovation in Manitoba’s latest provincial budget will be offset in part by an immediate end for several of the less popular tax credits available for farm use. Provincial Finance Minister Cameron Friesen on Tuesday laid out a 2017-18 budget with an overall $840 million deficit, based on a four per cent

Comment

Growing pains for Canada’s agri-food sector

The federal budget injects some new life into Canada’s agricultural industries, but not enough funding or clarity

By Sylvain Charlebois April 11, 2017

Canada’s agri-food sector has underachieved for too long. The new federal budget gives the sector the opportunity to reimagine its potential. Finally, Ottawa wants to make the agri-food sector a place to invest and foster innovation. The Liberal government aims to increase Canada’s agri-food exports to at least $75 billion annually by 2025 (from $56

Brandt Industries will buy the Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Canada plant in Saskatoon for an undisclosed sum. (HilcoInd.com)

Weather

Brandt buys Saskatoon power generating equipment plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 10, 2017

Tractor and equipment manufacturer Brandt expects to double its manufacturing footprint — and expand into new equipment lines — after closing a deal for a major Saskatchewan plant site specializing in power generation machinery. The Regina-based company on Friday announced it had closed its deal to buy the former Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Canada facility

Researchers found that grazing crop residue could actually improve certain soil properties and that compaction concerns were overblown.

Did you know?, News

Grazing no compaction disaster

Nebraska researchers say grazing even at excess rates isn't a major contributor to soil compaction

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 10, 2017

It makes sense that a 1,200-pound cow would place quite a lot of pressure on the ground on which it walks. But a new study shows that even these heavy animals can’t do much to compact common soils — if they’re grazed responsibly. Those are the results of a 16-year-long study, established in 1997 by

Palmer amaranth. (United Soybean Board photo)

Crops

Minnesota finds source of Palmer amaranth on CRP land

By GFM Network News, Renita D. Young, Tom Polansek April 6, 2017

Reuters — An invasive weed likely entered Minnesota through seed planted on land in a U.S. conservation program, state agriculture officials said on Thursday, bringing to a close an official probe of a growing threat to agricultural production. Infestations of the weed, Palmer amaranth, have affected other states in the U.S. Midwest through seed planted

Crops

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

By GFM Network News, Renita D. Young, Tom Polansek April 5, 2017

Winterset, Iowa | Reuters — A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America’s rural heartland. The weed is hard to kill and, if left unchecked, destroys as much as 91 per cent of corn on infested land,

Syngenta’s headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. (Photo courtesy Syngenta)

Crops

EU clears ChemChina’s Syngenta takeover, with conditions

By Foo Yun Chee, GFM Network News April 5, 2017

Brussels | Reuters –– ChemChina won conditional EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its US$43 billion bid for Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, a deal that could help China boost its domestic agricultural output. The deal is one of several reshaping the agricultural chemicals and seeds market, even as these deals trigger fears among

Beef cattle, Livestock

JBS accused of violating rainforest protection laws

By Anthony Boadle, GFM Network News April 1, 2017

Brasilia | Reuters –– The world’s largest meatpacker, Brazil’s JBS SA, has for years knowingly bought cattle that were raised on illegally deforested land, turning a blind eye to regulations meant to protect the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s environmental regulator has alleged. The accusation comes even as JBS and other meatpackers in Brazil, the top global

The Souris River at Minot, N.D. in June 2012. (Cynthia Hunter photo, Fema.gov)

Crops, Weather

Manitoba’s southwest expecting ‘well above normal’ runoff

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 30, 2017

Manitoba is expecting normal to above-normal spring runoff except in the Souris River basin, which is looking at “above normal to well-above normal runoff potential.” Levels of spring flooding still depend on future weather conditions, Infrastructure Minister Blaine Pedersen said Friday in the province’s March flood outlook, but the risk of overland flooding is “slightly

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

Pasture

China clears ChemChina’s Syngenta deal

Manitoba pulls less-loved ag tax credits in budget

Growing pains for Canada’s agri-food sector

Brandt buys Saskatoon power generating equipment plant

Grazing no compaction disaster

Minnesota finds source of Palmer amaranth on CRP land

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

EU clears ChemChina’s Syngenta takeover, with conditions

JBS accused of violating rainforest protection laws

Manitoba’s southwest expecting ‘well above normal’ runoff

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