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High-Oleic Canola Seeing Continued Growth In Canada

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Improving agronomics and economics are making specialty high-oleic canola varieties (also known as high stability, omega-9, or low linoleic) a more favour-able choice for western Canadian farmers, according to industry participants. Acres are expected to continue to increase in 2009. Canadian farmers planted about 16.1 million acres of canola in 2008-09 (August/ July), harvesting a
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Food, Farms The New Target For Venezuela’s Chavez

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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has put food and farms at the centre of his socialist revolution, tightening the government’s grip on supplies of staples in a strategy that risks sparking social unrest. Chavez nationalized a local unit of U. S. food giant Cargill on March 5 and threatened to take over the South American country’s
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Red Meat Industry Trying To Survive

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Governments need to show more concern for the survival of the red meat industry and worry less about countervailing action because some provinces are willing to support livestock producers, pork and beef groups have told the House of Commons’ agriculture committee. Jurgen Preugschas, president of the Canadian Pork Council, told the MPs March 5, “It’s
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EU Slaps Duties On U. S. Biodiesel Imports

Akey European Union trade panel approved on March 3 temporary anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel from the United States, sources with knowledge of the decision said. “It went through with no problem,” one source told Reuters on condition of anonymity after a meeting of the EU’s anti-dumping committee of 27 national trade
Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

Where’s the beef… plan? The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is very good at name-calling, but sadly lacking when it comes to laying out a coherent plan for increasing the money that farmers and ranchers are receiving for cattle sales. The CCA affiliates in each province except Alberta collect a checkoff of $2 per head for
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Look Beyond Alberta, MCEC Urges

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“Had the industry not been so concentrated in Alberta, it is possible that we never would have developed an overcapacity.” – Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council Report A new report from the council charged with building Manitoba’s cattle slaughter capacity sees grave risk in flowing federal support to the “already overdeveloped” beef sectors in Alberta and
Cereals, News

Kyle Durum Wheat “Seed Of The Year” In The West

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Kyle durum wheat, the most popular durum grown in the West between 1988 and 2005, was named Seed of the Year for Western Canada at the recent Prairie Grain Development Committee annual meeting. Kyle and its developer, Fred Townley-Smith, a retired Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) plant breeder, were recognized Feb. 25. The first crosses
Cereals, Opinion

You Can’t Beat The Pool

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR One of the more peculiar accusations levelled at the Canadian Wheat Board is that it is “secretive.” Compared to what? No other of the world’s major grain-marketing organizations provides so much detail such as that in the annual report released this month. Contrast the CWB’s multi-page statements of revenue and expenses
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

I’d Laugh If I Could Stop Crying

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It is widely known that the Canadian public has a low opinion of politicians. The best evidence of this comes not from surveys or coffee shops, but from the low turnout in Canadian elections. Of course, politicians always try to spin this to suit their purposes. The winning party claims it is because people are

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