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Six habits of highly resilient farmers

By Maggie Van Camp January 30, 2017

In 2010 David Gray, a development officer with the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA), did a small study of four farms that were consistently more profitable and better at dealing with climate change. He found six common characteristics within these resilient farms.

A bee busily pollinates a canola flower.

Crops, News

Chemical companies pitch bug-killing options

Some environmentalists say just switching to new products won’t solve the underlying problem

By Rod Nickel January 18, 2017

Companies that make bug-killing chemicals and natural remedies are racing to take advantage of restrictions on neonics, blamed for harming bees and mayflies. Global sales of neonicotinoids, or neonics, were US$3.01 billion last year, accounting for almost 18 per cent of the global insecticides market, according to consultancy Phillips McDougall. Insecticide sales fell sharply year

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Comment: Hard numbers and hard politics

Low crop prices and trade uncertainty are a trouble combination looming for 2017

By Alan Guebert January 16, 2017

The calendar may have changed but the numbers all U.S. farmers will work with this new year are little different from the numbers everyone worked with last year. For example, 2016’s corn production was baked-in last fall and so too are most of 2017’s options. We grew a staggering 15.3 billion bu. last year, will

Workers bone and cut beef at a meat packing plant in Toronto, May 22, 2003. Work continues at the plant despite several countries placing a temporary ban on Canadian beef after a case of Mad Cow disease was discovered on an Alberta farm.

News

Four-year rule for TFWs tossed out

Government is also committing to develop pathways to permanent residency for eligible applicants among TFWs

By Lorraine Stevenson January 3, 2017

Federal officials recently announced that temporary foreign workers (TFWs) will no longer be required to leave Canada after four years’ employment. The government will also begin paving the way for more to remain in Canada permanently. The ‘cumulative duration’ or ‘four-in, four-out rule,’ was a requirement that these workers could only work here four years

Deere & Co. is managing the agriculture downturn more effectively but there’s still storm clouds overhead.

Machinery, News

Deere earnings beat estimates but outlook downbeat

Global farm recession blamed for ongoing challenges but losses were smaller than predicted

By Meredith Davis December 21, 2016

Deere & Co. reported a much smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly earnings Nov. 22, after it cut costs and raised prices to compensate for sluggish demand for its agricultural and construction equipment, and its shares jumped more than 10 per cent. The company forecast revenue for the new fiscal year would fall about one per cent

If Donald Trump’s stance on NAFTA becomes his template for other trade negotiations, disaster awaits American farmers and ranchers.

Opinion

It isn’t broken; don’t fix it

By Alan Guebert December 12, 2016

Truth, civility, and honesty took a beating in the 2016 U.S. election, but global trade, the campaign’s daily whipping boy, actually grew in the July-September quarter. Moreover, reports the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, an international group that tracks trade, the surge means global trade “may rise over the year as a whole.”

Comment

Dwayne Andreas, the FBI, and me

By Alan Guebert December 7, 2016

Dwayne Orville Andreas, the pocket-sized hurricane that built a sleepy soybean processor, Archer Daniels Midland Co., into a global giant, died Wednesday, Nov. 16, in a Decatur, Ill. hospital. He was 98. Andreas’s career was as long and profitable as it was remarkable and jaded. Just last week someone again asked me if it was

Comment

Dwayne Andreas founded the ‘Supermarket to the World’

Former ADM chairman used his connections to build the world’s largest grain and oilseed processor

By John Morriss November 29, 2016

Last week’s passing of former Archer Daniels Midland CEO Dwayne Andreas at age 98 serves to remind of his remarkable success and his influence on the world grain trade, including here in Canada. In 1993, Andreas was in Winnipeg to receive an International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the University of Manitoba. A few journalists got

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Preparing for Trump’s food world

Many Trump policies could have wide-ranging impact on food and agriculture around the globe

By Sylvain Charlebois November 28, 2016

After the shock comes the reality of understanding what a Trump presidency and a Republican-dominated Congress will mean to all of us. Over the last two years, policies on immigration, trade and security have dominated the campaign. Not much was said about agriculture or food policies. By the looks of it though, a new approach

University of Manitoba supply chain professor, Barry Prentice says the maximum revenue entitlement is bad for farmers as well as the railways.

Crops, News

MRE counterpoint claims system hurts everyone

VIDEO: Barry Prentice says the MRE is bad for western grain farmers and the railways

By Allan Dawson November 16, 2016

Western grain farmers and the railways would be better off if the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE) was scrapped, according to Barry Prentice, an agricultural economist and professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba. “Farmers may be losing more on (grain) prices (because Canada is seen as an unreliable supplier) than they ever

Daily Network News

National survey of farmer and rancher mental health launches

U.S. grains: Soybean futures rise as dollar hits four-year low

U.S. livestock: Cattle retreat, hogs rise

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