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Cwb Impasse Stymies Buyers

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Canadian millers could be forced to import wheat from the U.S. if they can t forward contract with the Canadian Wheat Board or private trade during the transition to an open market, industry officials say. Millers and other food processors routinely forward contract wheat up to a year in advance but the pending end of
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Agent Orange Case Proceeds

briefs new york/reuters Monsanto Co. has lost a bid to close part of a lawsuit alleging the company caused health injuries to residents living near a plant that made the Vietnam War-era U.S. military defoliant Agent Orange. Monsanto, which operated a Nitro, West Virginia, chemical plant from 1934 to 2000, argued it was working as
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4-H: Embracing The Future

For nearly 100 years, youth in the southern Manitoba community of Roland have been getting together to learn to do by doing through 4-H. Roland s role as the birthplace of the program in Canada will be showcased in 2013 when 4-H celebrates its centennial.PHOTO: LORRAINESTEVENSON By Lorraine Stevenson Co-operator staff When Clayton Robins joined
Beef cattle, Livestock

All boys or all girls?

Conception rates by AI are lower but being able to select the sex is a bonus

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Dairymen have been using it for years to get heifer-only calf crops; now beef producers are trying out sexed semen. Guy Johnston, of Shoreline Stock Farm near Eddystone, is the first in Manitoba to join the ranks of an estimated 200 beef producers in Canada using the new ar tificial insemination (AI) technology. For me,
News, Oilseeds

Seeking Organic Input

Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada s Organic Value Chain Roundtable (OVCRT) is seeking input from organic growers on what communication tools are needed to improve the sector. As part of a branding exercise for the sector, the task force is asking stakeholders to complete an online survey to capture the different needs and challenges facing
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Bull Market For Bred Heifers?

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Want to know how much they are asking for bred heifers? Better sit down first. Morgan Moore is taking orders for 1,500 AI-bred, red and black Angus and Charolais-cross commercial heifers this fall. It s kind of volume dependent, but we re looking for $1,600 to $1,700, depending on how many they take, said Moore,
Hogs, Livestock, Poultry

EU Softens Ban On Eggs From Battery Hens

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An EU ban on the sale of eggs from battery chickens to consumers will go ahead as planned from Jan. 1, 2012, but producers may be free to sell non-compliant eggs to domestic processors, the bloc s consumer affairs chief said Oct. 5. The commission does not intend to postpone the deadline of the ban.
Cereals, Opinion

Farmers Will Finally Get Their Wish

DearEditor, Birthday parties are usually more fun. Instead, western Canadian wheat and barley farmers are capping off 68 years of being treated like second-class citizens. On October 12, 1943, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) monopoly was born and imposed on western Canadian farmers when Canada was committed to supplying cheap wheat to Europe during the
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Time To Dig Carrots

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It won t be long before we undertake one of the last vegetable gardening tasks of the growing season harvesting the carrot crop. I always leave this annual task for a bright, sunny October day so that the job becomes a pleasant afternoon spent outdoors in the garden. My wife and I have a small-town

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