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Cattle Producer Predicted XL Closure

By Paul Beingessner May 28, 2009

Regular readers of this column will know I wasn’t too enthused about the sale of Lakeside Packers to XL Beef. The Competition Bureau decided that Canadian farmers would be well enough served by having two companies controlling 95 per cent of beef packing in Canada. It blessed the sale with the proviso that it would

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Cargill Profit Drops 68 Per Cent As Economy Hurts

May 21, 2009

Agribusiness giant Cargill said on April 15 that quarterly profit fell 68 per cent, hurt by the weak global economy and troubles in the financial sector. Cargill, one of the world’s largest private corporations, said it had earned $326 million in the third quarter ended Feb. 28, down from $1.03 billion a year earlier. The

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for May. 14, 2009

May 14, 2009

Open market would not change wheat acreage Would wheat acreage in Western Canada really soar if there were an open market for Prairie wheat? The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) says so, and points to Ontario as evidence. In fact, the general upward trend in Ontario’s wheat acreage began decades before the end of

Hogs, News

COOL Challenge Could Come Soon: CPC

By Ron Friesen April 16, 2009

U. S. plants are “very cagey.” – FLORIAN POSSBERG, CPC A Wo r l d Trade Organization challenge to U. S. country-of-origin labelling is virtually certain and recent remarks by U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack may have speeded it up, industry insiders say. A letter from Vilsack to U. S. meat processors in January

Cereals, News

Australia’s GrainCorp, Cargill Reconfigure Partnerships

April 9, 2009

Global commodities firm Cargill Inc. and Australia’s GrainCorp Ltd. will end a grain-buying joint venture after the scrapping of Australia’s wheat export monopoly made the two competitors. Cargill will buy GrainCorp’s holding in Australian Grain Accumulation (AGA) Services for an undisclosed amount, GrainCorp said on April 3. GrainCorp will form a new grain-buying team, while

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

The owners have changed a few times and so have the oilseeds it crushes, but the processing plant farmers built here in 1946 still epitomizes the concept of “value added.” In fact, this plant has been “value adding” since long before the words became part of the Prairie lexicon. Canola, the oilseed it processes almost

Cereals, Crops, News

Wheat Moving Out Ahead Of Red River Flood

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

Good progress has been made getting wheat out of the areas expected to be flooded by the rising Red River here and south to the border. “We probably have two-thirds to three-quarters of it in now and we’re fairly confident the bulk of it will be off-farm before the flood waters hit,” Canadian Wheat Board

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Time To Rethink The Beef Business

By Dean Hildebrand March 26, 2009

We are encouraged by a growing consumer movement towards not only organic foods, but just as important, local foods. Has anyone paid much attention to the NFU’s November 19, 2008 report on The Farm Crisis and the Cattle Sector? Among other things, the report reveals that average cattle prices are nearly half what they were

News

Cargill Plant Seized By Venezuelan Government

By Deisy Buitrago March 26, 2009

“The measure only includes the rice plant.” – ELIAS JAUA, AGRICULTURE MINISTER Venezuela said March 5 it has no plans to take over any additional holdings of U. S. food giant Cargill after socialist President Hugo Chavez ordered the seizure of the rice plant, renewing his nationalization drive. Chavez’s clash with the food companies, demanding

News, Oilseeds

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

By Inae Riveras March 26, 2009

Farmers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso, the country’s top soy state, are shunning once-heralded, genetically modified soy varieties in favour of conventional seeds after the hi-tech type showed poor yields. “We’re seeing less and less planting of GMO soy around here. It doesn’t give consistent performance,” said Jeferson Bif, who grows soy and corn on a

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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