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Global markets: Kenya prompted to cut back on spending

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 16, 2015

CNS Canada, Oct. 16 — The following is a glance at the news moving markets globally. KENYA PROMPTED TO CUT EXPENDITURE BY IMF AND WORLD BANK – The World Bank and International Monetary Fund advised the Kenyan government to stop spending on non-priority projects. The country’s treasury has been borrowing shillings at a high interest

New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, shown here last November, doesn’t expect a Trans-Pacific trade deal to kill Canada’s supply management systems. (Beehive.govt.nz)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

By GFM Network News, Shannon VanRaes October 15, 2015

Hamilton, N.Z. | MCO — Canada’s supply-managed sectors should not worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from where New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser sits. “I can understand why producer groups would wish to perceive this in a different way, but this is not the end of supply management,” he said here Thursday. “I don’t think

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

By GFM Network News, Maggie Van Camp October 14, 2015

What do you get when you mix milk and eggs with a looming election? A “free” trade deal that gained major market access in Asia for Canada, but managed to keeps the tariffs for Canada’s supply-managed commodities. After all the barking from New Zealand, cows parading on Parliament Hill, tweets, heart-wrenching videos on Facebook, election

Jeffrey Fitzpatrick-Stilwell of McDonald’s Canada speaks at the University of Manitoba during a seminar hosted by the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment.

Livestock

No need to compete on sustainability

Consumers have access to a lot of information, but that information isn’t always helpful

By Shannon VanRaes October 13, 2015

When it comes to sustainability, competition isn’t the name of the game. Speaking at the University of Manitoba during a seminar hosted by the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment, Jeffrey Fitzpatrick-Stilwell of McDonald’s Canada said that efforts to make food production more sustainable need to be “pre-competitive.” “We work very collaboratively, not only

Crops, Markets

EU lawmakers reject bill allowing opt-out from GM crop imports

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 13, 2015

Brussels | Reuters –– European lawmakers rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have allowed countries to restrict or ban the use of imported GM crops that have secured EU approval. The environment committee of the European Parliament rejected the draft law by 47 votes to three, many arguing that the proposal was unworkable and would

Livestock, Markets

California adopts tough rules for antibiotic use in livestock

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein October 12, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill that sets the strictest government standards in the U.S. for the use of antibiotics in livestock production. The move from California, known for its leadership on public health and environmental issues, comes amid growing concern that the overuse of such drugs

Livestock, Markets

Canada now avian flu-free

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 9, 2015

With no new cases in poultry since April and no farms in quarantine since July, Canada has officially declared itself free of avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday it has informed the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is free of notifiable avian flu. No new outbreaks of highly pathogenic

News

Debate on agriculture generates few sparks

Trade, research spending and farm labour issues dominated the discussion

By Alex Binkley October 9, 2015

The National Agriculture Leaders Debate generated few sparks Sept. 30 in what seemed more like lengthy academic discussions than a rousing conflict of ideas from candidates in the Oct. 19 election. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his New Democrat and Liberal critics — Malcolm Allen and Mark Eyking — got in a few jabs over

KAP president Dan Mazier says participants in last week’s agricultural debate did a good job discussing important issues, while being civil to one another.

Local news

KAP president pleased with ag debate

Important farm issues were discussed respectfully

By Allan Dawson October 9, 2015

Farmers who watched the agriculture debate held in Ottawa Sept. 30 should have a clearer picture of where the major parties seeking election to the House of Commons stand on farm issues, says Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier. Mazier was pleased important agricultural issues were discussed, but also by the fact candidates were

Opinion

Editorial: Trust us. Why?

By Laura Rance-Unger October 8, 2015

It was no small feat achieving the kind of Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that offers export agricultural commodity groups the kind of market access they were seeking with modest, but significant, concessions on supply management. If the early reports are to be believed (details were announced just before press time), Canada’s trade negotiators deserve kudos for

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

Poultry