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Manitoba Slow To Meet CQM Target

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“The clock is ticking.” – DAVID WI ENS, DFM Manitoba dairy farmers will have to pick up the pace to meet a registration deadline for a national milk quality assurance program. So far, only 40 per cent (146) of Manitoba’s milk producers have been fully registered under Canadian Quality Milk (CQM), a national on-farm food
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New Technology Touted To Fight Dairy Disease

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“We are one ‘60 Minutes’ report away from rules against either leukosis or Johne’s.” – MARK VARNER A recently introduced technology to predetermine the sex of dairy cattle could also be the key to eliminating infectious diseases in dairy herds. Sexed semen, in which sperm is sorted for gender, can help milk producers develop herds
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Conference Board Takes Aim At Supply Management

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Supply management blocks dairy farmers from competing in world markets and saddles consumers and processors with high costs, says a report from the Conference Board of Canada. Dairy farmers are engaged in defending their system from cheap imports when they “could otherwise be positioning the sector for future long-term domestic and global success including opportunities
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T – for Nov. 12, 2009

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he behaviourist approach to ranching has won many converts in the United States. One of them, Ray Banister, used the philosophy to develop a new grazing strategy on his 7,200-acre Montana ranch, after 40 years of rotational grazing. Called “boom-bust” management, Banister uses intense periods of grazing followed by two growing seasons of rest. This
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Ethiopia Targets Land For Commercial Farms

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Ethiopia plans to offer three million hectares of land over the next two years for investors to develop large-scale commercial farms, a government official said Nov. 5. Countries in Asia and the Gulf – such as China, India and Saudi Arabia – have rushed to buy farmland abroad to grow crops for their own people
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EU Dairy Farmers Win Subsidies, Want Reforms

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Dairy farmers won 280 million euros ($418 million) of additional subsidies from the European Union Oct. 19 after weeks of protests over low milk prices. But some of the farmers, who burned hay, threw firecrackers and blocked traffic with tractors and buses as EU farm ministers met in Luxembourg, said only a regulatory reform of
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In Brief… – for Oct. 22, 2009

Mexico tries GM corn: Mexico, considered by many to be the cradle of corn, has issued permits to grow genetically modified corn for the first time in a bid to eventually boost production of the grain. Mexico’s Agriculture Ministry said the two permits will allow only experimental genetically modified (GM) corn crops, which will be

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