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Dairy Farmers want to know what’s on the table in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks

By Alex Binkley June 19, 2013

The federal government needs to let farm groups know what’s happening at the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, says Dairy Farmers of Canada. While farm and other groups are briefed regularly by the trade negotiators, they have no access to any documents about the details of the talks, said Richard Doyle, the group’s executive director. “The

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Step by step, Kenyan farmers are improving their lot

By Tamara Leigh April 26, 2013

The farms seem impossibly small and the challenges overwhelmingly huge, but Kenyans are  creating marketing chains, improving productivity and even doing value added

Kenya’s story is a familiar one in African agriculture: Small farms, a great need for more production, and yet a high amount of post-harvest waste — often because farmers simply can’t get their product to market. But things are changing. “Kenyans need to do it themselves,” says Rien Geuze, agribusiness adviser for Agriterra, a Dutch

Beef cattle, Crops, Dairy cattle, Forages

Brandon rally draws 40 protesters opposed to introduction of Roundup Ready alfalfa

By Daniel Winters April 18, 2013

Opponents of genetically modified crops rallied in front of the constituency office of a local MP to protest approval of glyphosate-tolerant alfalfa, which they say could be seeded on fields in Eastern Canada as early as this spring. The demonstration, which drew about 40 protesters, was organized by the local chapter of the National Farmers

Dairy cattle, News

German farmers balk at free trade with U.S.

By Hans-edzard Busemann April 9, 2013

A planned free trade agreement between the European Union and United States should not completely liberalize agricultural trade, the president of the association of German farmers’ association DBV said March 26. Trade talks must involve upper limits to exports to prevent market disruption, Joachim Rukwied told Reuters. Brussels and Washington hope to start negotiations in

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Dairy farmers ask for delay of GM alfalfa registration

By Alex Binkley April 9, 2013

Registration of genetically modified alfalfa should be delayed until next year so a “coexistence” plan can be completed, says Dairy Farmers of Canada. Roundup Ready alfalfa has become a cause célèbre for anti-GM groups, which say its cultivation will make it impossible for growers of organic alfalfa to stay in business because their crops will

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Non-nutritive sweeteners

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 9, 2013

Every now and then, someone emails me a story that is circulating on the Internet or Facebook. One day, the information was about artificial sweeteners. I happened to have a can of diet soda next to me. After reading the article, I could imagine the can of pop sprouting legs and clawed hands and then

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Yes, we still need to limit salt intake

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 28, 2013

Here’s some tips to help you manage that You may have heard the advice to leave your salt shaker in the cupboard, however, most of the salt in foods is not added at the table. Most sodium comes from highly processed foods, such as dinner mixes, or from restaurant or fast foods. Most table salt

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Calving season!

By Tanya Unrau March 8, 2013

Every year, around this time, I have to share my husband with the other females in his life — almost 400 of them to be exact! It’s calving season on our farm. Raising cattle is one of the primary incomes for our farm. It is our job, our choice of occupation, and especially this time

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Opinion

Colourful, but effective

By John Morriss February 28, 2013

Both Alex Binkley and Allan Dawson relate some memories of the accomplishments of the late Eugene Whelan elsewhere in this issue, but we can’t let him leave us without noting one ambition he failed to achieve. Whelan desperately wanted to be minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board (never making a secret of it) but

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

U.S. cattle herd declines but northern states see increases

By Tim Petry March 1, 2013

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released the much-anticipated “Cattle” report on Feb 1. The semi-annual inventory report confirmed what many cattle market observers had expected: The record-setting drought in the southern Plains in 2011 that expanded into much of the country, including the Corn Belt in 2012, caused lower cattle numbers.

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U.S. corn planting seen down, soy acres up as Iran war inflates costs, analysts say

Producers affected by bovine TB receive extended tax deferral

Mercosur and Canada near free-trade agreement with April talks

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