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Record Farm Income Claims Challenged

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Predictions that Canadian farm income will set a new record high in 2010 are wrong, according to Darrin Qualman, a former researcher with the National Farmers Union (NFU). “These income levels are in no way a record,” Qualman said in an interview last week in response to a report prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

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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
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South America Farmland Top Investor Buy

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Farmers’ fields in Brazil and Argentina are among the most prized assets in a new global market for agricultural land that has sprung up alongside soaring commodity prices. Private equity and fund managers at a farm investing conference in Geneva named South America a top place to buy, lease and manage agricultural lands for profit.
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Reforms Can Unlock Potential Of Eurasia Farms

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Russia and Ukraine, where drought-hit harvests this year sent world grain prices soaring, could massively boost output with the right reforms, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). One key to development is land ownership classification, for example, allowing farmers to use land as collateral, or a system of crop receipts, as
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Farmer Optimism Wanes

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Extensive flooding in Western Canada and the financial support foreign farmers get is draining the confidence of Canadian farmers, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Its Monthly Agriculture Business Barometer shows the confidence of the agriculture sector retreated in the month of June to an index of 51.0, well below the national average of
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New Survey Devastatingly Critical Of AgriStability

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Anew survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business reveals deep unhappiness among producers with AgriStability, the country’s major farm income stabilization program. Nearly 60 per cent of CFIB agr ibusinesses surveyed expressed dissatisfaction with the program, calling it too complicated, expensive, unpredictable and just plain ineffective. Twenty-seven per cent of respondents said they were
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Letters – for May. 13, 2010

We welcome readers’comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Farmers heading back to bad old
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Farm Borrowing Tapers Off

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Forty-nine per cent of Canadian producers and agribusiness and agrifood operators surveyed by Farm Credit Canada plan to pay down debt in 2010, 29 per cent say they won’t spend much differently than in 2009 and 22 per cent will seek more financing, the Crown corporation says. The numbers are from an FCC Vision Panel
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Government Delivers Energy Loans For Farmers

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Canadian agriculture producers and agribusiness operators who are considering the use of renewable energy sources in their business will soon have a new financing option thanks to a new Energy Loan announced Feb. 22 by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Energy Loan is designed to assist producers and agribusiness owners who
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BrM Changes Needed To Save Spring Seeding: CFA

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“I’m quite sure they will not have enough money.” – LAURENT PELLERIN, CFA Livestock producers need immediate improvements to agricultural safety net programs or they may not be able to seed crops this spring, the head of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture warns. That’s especially true for Canada’s financially ravaged hog farmers, Laurent Pellerin said

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