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Marubeni Deal May Aid Stealthy China Grain Imports

By Naveen Thukral July 2, 2009

China’s second strategic tie-up with a Japanese trading house may be nominally focused on safeguarding soybean supplies, but the unspoken longer-term aim could be to help Beijing secure low-key corn and wheat imports. For now, China remains as it has been for centuries, self-sufficient in corn and wheat supplies; it also holds massive state stockpiles

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

W – for Jun. 25, 2009

June 25, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Here’s a few recipe selected from the Manitoba Milk Producers website that look tempting for what we certainly hope to be the hot summer days ahead. If you’re looking for more recipes along these lines log on to: www.milk.mb.ca/recipes RHUBARB TARTS Lisa Lillies of Woodlands shares her favourite tart recipe with us this

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Circovirus Vaccine Label Update

By Wyeth Animal Health June 18, 2009

Canadian swine producers can now protect piglets one week earlier against porcine circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) with a new change to the Suvaxyn PCV2 vaccine label. The new label changes the age pigs can be vaccinated from four weeks to three weeks of age. “The sooner producers are able to begin protecting young pigs from

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Soft Pastures Soothe Bossy’s Sore Feet

By Ron Friesen June 18, 2009

Concrete floors are very hard on a cow’s hooves Milk producers wanting to treat lameness in dairy cows could consider an old-fashioned solution to a perennial problem: put the cows out on pasture. A University of British Columbia study has found that spending time on pasture, even for a short period, can significantly reduce lameness

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Federal Funds Welcomed

By Dfc Release June 11, 2009

Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) welcomed the $158 million Growing Canadian Agri-Innovations Program announced late last month. DFC has been working with the Dairy Processors Association of Canada (DPAC) to develop three research areas for the agri-science clusters. The research areas address human nutrition and health, food safety and finding ways to reduce the dairy

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Recession Shows Advantage Of Supply Management

By Alex Binkley June 11, 2009

While farm incomes have plummeted in many sectors, they have remained stable for dairy farmers without any jump in the cost of milk products to consumers, says Richard Doyle, executive director of Dairy Farmers of Canada. “Most of the dairy industry around the world is in crisis,” he told the Commons agriculture committee in late

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Consultations Held On Bill 7

By Lorraine Stevenson June 11, 2009

Bill 7 received second reading June 2 and underwent public consultations last week in a last-minute push before summer recess begins at the Legislature. The Food Safety and Related Amendments Act, which brings several pieces of food safety legislation under one new act, has been scrutinized by farm groups since its introduction last December. Groups

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Tyson Still Making Money

May 21, 2009

Beef, pork and chicken are currently profitable for Tyson Foods Inc. even as cash-strapped consumers eat at home more and seek out lower-cost foods, Tyson’s interim chief executive said during an investor conference May 13. “Our chicken segment has been profitable since the end of February and it continues to be so,” interim CEO Leland

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Massive Dairy Farm A Forgotten Chapter In Manitoba History

By Ron Friesen May 14, 2009

“He was a pretty amazing guy.” – LOUIS BALCAEN They stand like lonely, abandoned sentinels – two massive concrete silos in an empty field gazing sightlessly at the sky. They and a few nearby tumbledown buildings are all that’s left of what was once one of the largest dairy farms in North America. At its

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Finding A Better Farm Story

By Laura Rance-Unger April 23, 2009

One of the hardest jobs for a newspaper editor is deciding each week’s front-page lineup. Generally speaking, the stories chosen should carry some special significance that makes them newsworthy; they need to be unique, unusual, or just plain interesting. That’s how a rather mundane story about dairy farming wound up on the front page of

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