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Cereals, Crops

CFA Still Pushing For Rail Costing Review

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Taking action on the Rail Freight Service Review report is important but so is curbing excessive railway charges for grain shipments, says Humphrey Banack, vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA). A rail costing review is needed “right away because every year we wait, farmers pay millions of dollars too much for rail service,”
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Pay More For Better Rail Service On Higher-Value Crops?

The following are edited excerpts from a Commons agriculture committee hearing Dec. 9 on railway service. Randy Hoback, Conservative MP for Prince Albert:“The argument a lot of people are struggling with is cost versus service. (T)hey are intertwined. If you buy something at a discount store you don’t expect to get proper service or extreme
Crops

Proper Fit Is Key To Respiratory Safety

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Disposable particulate respirators are being made available free through provincial farm safety agencies to help farmers plan for safety on their farms. However, if you wear a respirator improperly, then you might as well have none at all. So the key message is to think ahead, have a respirator handy, and know how to use
Crops

Agriculture Called Key To Protecting Biodiversity

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An international accord to protect the world’s endangered species highlights the need for environmental goods and services programs for farmers, a Canadian farm leader says. Farmers can do a lot to protect nature if given the tools to do it, said Ron Bonnett, Canadian Federation of Agriculture president. So producers should not be left out
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Potash Important To Canada’s Future, Ritz Says

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Canada must protect its future as a supplier of food but also of the fertilizers used to produce them, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “When we look at a strategic resource like potash – which is the basis for fertilizers and so on around the world – we do a tremendous job of supplying both
Cereals, News

Strahl Rules Out Costing Review Until Service Study Complete

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Transport Minister Chuck Strahl will wait for the final recommendations from the Rail Service Review Panel before deciding on requests for an examination of railway costing. “We want to see if the panel’s recommendations resolve shipper complaints about the quasi-monopolistic status of the railways before the government decides on another review,” Strahl told the Commons
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MP Proposes National Food Day

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Farmers should be as much a part of Thanksgiving as family gatherings and turkey dinners, says NDP MP Malcolm Allen who wants the Friday before the holiday to be known as National Local Food Day. Allen, the party’s food safety critic, presented a bill to the Commons Oct. 7 to authorize the change. It was
Dairy cattle, News, Poultry

EU Trade Talks Set To Resume

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Farm groups remain hopeful the next round of free trade talks between Canada and the European Union, scheduled for Oct. 18 to 22 in Ottawa, will bring some positive results. The talks have yet to move beyond exploratory discussions. A proposed agreement is seen as a possible boon for livestock and crop producers and a
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KAP Awaits ‘Cost Of Capital’ Review – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Farm groups say they won’t be snoozing when a study comes out next month on the arcane process of calculating railways’ cost of capital. Because if they snooze, they might lose and farmers will wind up paying more in freight rates. “I’m sure the railroads are saying there should be an adjustment In their cost
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Election Talk May Derail Correction To Food Labels – for Sep. 16, 2010

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The growing talk of a federal election this fall may derail efforts to get Product of Canada labelling shifted to a more realistic basis, industry observers say. Last spring, Jean-Pierre Blackburn, the minister of state for agriculture, launched an initiative to try to save the Product of Canada label from falling into complete disuse. In

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