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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

News, Oilseeds

High-Oleic Canola Seeing Continued Growth In Canada

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 19, 2009

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

News

Food, Farms The New Target For Venezuela’s Chavez

By Frank Jack Daniel March 19, 2009

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

By Alex Binkley March 12, 2009

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

News

EU Slaps Duties On U. S. Biodiesel Imports

March 12, 2009

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

Country Crossroads

Canadian Sodium Consumption Reaching Dangerous Levels

By Heart And Stroke Foundation March 12, 2009

Excessive sodium intake may contribute to the premature death of more than 30 Canadians a day. “The average Canadian eats double the amount of sodium he or she needs each day which can lead to high blood pressure – the No. 1 risk factor for stroke and a major risk factor for heart disease,” says

Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

March 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

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 5, 2009

“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

By Allan Dawson March 5, 2009

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

Daily Network News

Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

Feed grain weekly: Barley steady in late February

Reduced Argentine soybean harvest, bigger crush says USDA attaché

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Cargill Plant Seized By Venezuelan Government

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

High-Oleic Canola Seeing Continued Growth In Canada

Food, Farms The New Target For Venezuela’s Chavez

Red Meat Industry Trying To Survive

Canadian Sodium Consumption Reaching Dangerous Levels

Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

Look Beyond Alberta, MCEC Urges

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

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