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EU to review use of last-resort antibiotic on farms

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 14, 2016

London | Reuters — European drug regulators launched a review on Jan. 11 of the use in farming of a key last-line antibiotic called colistin, after international research found alarming evidence of a gene that makes bacteria resistant to the drug. The London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was responding to a European Commission

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Global dairy prices unexpectedly fall in overnight auction

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 5, 2016

Wellington | Reuters — Global dairy prices unexpectedly eased in the overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction, a platform established by New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter. Fonterra’s GDT Price Index dipped 1.6 per cent, with an average selling price of $2,458 per tonne, in the auction held Tuesday (all figures US$). Whole milk

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Que. banks, funds boost stake in Agropur

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 17, 2015

Agropur is getting a second nine-figure cash injection from a group of Quebec institutional investors and banks, further backing the major Quebec dairy farmer co-operative’s expansion plans against an uncertain domestic market. The investor group, led by Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ), said Thursday it will put up $300 million, on top

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Dairy support price gets boost starting Feb. 1

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 16, 2015

Canada’s dairy farmers can expect a two per cent bump in their overall revenue from industrial milk sales starting Feb. 1 next year. Citing dairy producers’ increased costs of production, the Canadian Dairy Commission on Wednesday announced its support price of butter will increase effective Feb. 1 to $7.7815 per kilogram, from $7.4046 currently. Its

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Parmalat gets GF2 funds for new Winnipeg milk plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 15, 2015

Dairy giant Parmalat is set to get federal and Manitoba government funding toward its planned new $50 million milk plant in Winnipeg. The two levels of government on Tuesday pledged $2.5 million toward the construction of Parmalat’s new dairy plant at an industrial park in the city’s St. Boniface area, about seven km east of

“Certainly there are benefits to reinvesting some of this money, but we also have to bear in mind producers on every farm in the country will be taking an economic hit.”  – David Wiens

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Government expropriation of dairy ‘assets’ requires compensation

A resolution to pass on personal compensation in favour of market development was defeated

By Shannon VanRaes December 14, 2015

It’s been called a handout, a subsidy and even a bailout. Proposed compensation for supply-managed commodities as Canada signed on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership has garnered much negative publicity, prompting some Manitoba dairy producers to put forward a bold proposal for farmers to reject cash payments. Instead, they want to see the money — should

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VIDEO: Dairy producers separate curds from whey at annual meeting

By Shannon VanRaes December 14, 2015

International trade, farm succession, animal welfare and more was on the agenda at Dairy Farmers of Manitoba’s annual general meeting and conference recently held in Winnipeg. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes talks to chairman David Wiens about how the meeting went and what was accomplished.

Jean-Claude Poissant, shown here at the opening of Maison ACFA in St-Hyacinthe, is the Liberals’ new parliamentary secretary for agriculture. (ACFAreseaux.qc.ca)

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Que. dairyman named parliamentary ag secretary

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 3, 2015

Canada’s agriculture minister will get a Quebec dairyman and grain farmer turned rookie Liberal MP as his new parliamentary secretary. Jean-Claude Poissant, who won the re-formed Montreal-area riding of La Prairie for the Liberals on Oct. 19 by a spread of almost 5,900 votes over Bloc Quebecois contender Christian Picard, was named Wednesday as parliamentary

Two miles of the Joubert Creek running through their farmland is now fenced off, plus the Heeses have done other farm upgrades to reduce nutrient run-off and improve the health of the watercourse that feeds into the Rat River. The farm today is home to two generations of Heeses including Eric Heese (pictured) who farms with his son Nicholas.

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Grunthal-area dairy farm a model for water quality protection

Conservation Champions: The Heese Dairy Farm along the Joubert Creek was recognized by the Manitoba Conservation District Association in 2014 for its work in riparian restoration

By Lorraine Stevenson December 1, 2015

After farming for five generations and more than 80 years along the Joubert Creek, the Heese family knows a thing or two about the health and quality of the watercourse than transects their land. The Grunthal-area dairy farmers have farmed alongside the river since the mid-1920s when the patriarch, Dietrich Heese, moved his family from

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GTA police track down alleged cheesenappers

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 26, 2015

Three Toronto-area men face theft charges after a tractor trailer load of cheese took a late-night road trip in the wee hours Wednesday. The truckload of cheese had been reported stolen from the Brampton, Ont. area on Tuesday, York Regional Police said in a release. The YRP said they then got a call shortly after

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FCC raises inflation forecast on surging commodity prices

U.S. urges WTO members to rethink core tariff rule in face of China threat

Speculators add to bullish bets in canola

Dairy cattle

EU to review use of last-resort antibiotic on farms

Global dairy prices unexpectedly fall in overnight auction

Que. banks, funds boost stake in Agropur

Dairy support price gets boost starting Feb. 1

Parmalat gets GF2 funds for new Winnipeg milk plant

Government expropriation of dairy ‘assets’ requires compensation

VIDEO: Dairy producers separate curds from whey at annual meeting

Que. dairyman named parliamentary ag secretary

Grunthal-area dairy farm a model for water quality protection

GTA police track down alleged cheesenappers

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