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Farm groups offer cautious support to Europe trade deal

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

As a posse of Harper cabinet ministers and MPs fanned out across the country to round up support for a free trade deal with Europe (CETA), several farm groups offered carefully worded backing for more trans-Atlantic trade. However, as the details of the trade deal are still being negotiated, the groups carefully stuck to the

Hogs, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Farm groups applaud start of trade talks with Japan

By Alex Binkley March 29, 2012

Farm and food industry groups were quick to praise the launch of negotiations for a Canada-Japan free trade deal by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda. Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and is Canada’s second-largest agriculture market. The market is worth almost $4 billion for Canadian farmers and

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Livestock briefs, March 8, 2012

March 14, 2012

Forage specialist advises Texas cattlemen to hold off A Texas AgriLife Extension Service forage specialist is advising state beef producers not to get too enthusiastic about recent rainfalls, which followed many months of record drought. “After the drought, remain destocked,” Dr. Larry Redmon says in an AgriLife release. “Just because you see green in the

News

Food industry wants say in new legislation

By Alex Binkley January 27, 2012

Food safety is a job for the companies that make food, and government should focus on setting nutrition and health standards and policing the industry. That’s the pitch being made by large processors as the federal government prepares to revamp food-safety legislation. “Let’s not lose perspective: We can’t regulate bugs out of our food,” said

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Live cattle exports to the UAE

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 17, 2012

The federal government has reached a new agreement for exporting live cattle to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — a market valued at $40 million in sales annually, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has announced. “This announcement instantly provides new export opportunities for Canadian producers, and is a significant step toward regaining access to other key

News, Oilseeds

Commodity Groups Want A Trade Deal With South Korea

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 17, 2011

Commodity groups and processors are urging the federal government to get cracking on a free trade agreement with South Korea to ensure Canadian exports are not displaced by competitors. Trade talks between Canada and South Korea have been stalled since 2008. South Korea is a valuable market for Canadian grains and oilseeds, said Jim Everson,

News

Time For An Agri-Food Plan

By Lorraine Stevenson July 7, 2011

Canadians appear to agree it’s time to head down a new path in the agri-food sector, but how to set forth and who’ll take the lead remain key questions. In February the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) releasedCanada’s Agri-Food Destination: A New Strategic Approacha report, pointing out rough terrain ahead if, as a leading world

News

Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

By Alex Binkley February 17, 2011

The federal and provincial governments should encourage farmers to ramp up production this year to take advantage of strong prices but also help ease tight world stocks of grain and other commodities, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. They issued reports in early February urging gover nments

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

Recipe Swap – for Dec. 9, 2010

By Lorraine Stevenson December 9, 2010

You might have read in our paper last week about the amount of food wasted in Canada every year. The numbers are eye popping. We are throwing away a mountain of food – about 40 per cent of all food produced in this country. That’s about $27 billion worth of edibles, or slightly less than

Opinion

Wasting Away

By Laura Rance-Unger December 2, 2010

It’s long been known that Canadians are among the world’s most wasteful of water. We are just as bad, if not worse, with food. Researchers with the George Morris Centre at the University of Guelph recently came out with numbers that by any definition are shocking. A whopping $27 billion in food – more than

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Tag Archives agri-food exports

Farm groups offer cautious support to Europe trade deal

Farm groups applaud start of trade talks with Japan

Livestock briefs, March 8, 2012

Food industry wants say in new legislation

Live cattle exports to the UAE

Commodity Groups Want A Trade Deal With South Korea

Time For An Agri-Food Plan

Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

Recipe Swap – for Dec. 9, 2010

Wasting Away

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