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Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Pandemic spurs farm gate milk price hike

Dairy Commission to lift price effective Feb. 1 next year

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With the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, the Canadian Dairy Commission has set aside its usual milk price adjustment formula and will instead increase the price based on its own review. The CDC on Monday announced the farm gate price of milk will increase by $1.46 per hectolitre (100 litres) effective Feb. 1, 2021, pending approval
File photo of a farmed mink. (Konstantin Sokolov/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Denmark tightens lockdown as mink cull devastates industry

WHO and ECDC experts support Denmark's strategy

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Copenhagen | Reuters — Denmark announced strict new lockdown rules on Thursday in the north of the country after authorities discovered a mutated coronavirus strain in minks bred in the region, prompting a nationwide cull that will devastate the large pelt industry. The government said on Wednesday that it would cull all minks — up
File photo of a farmed mink. (Konstantin Sokolov/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Denmark to cull entire farmed mink population

Coronavirus mutation spreads to people

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Copenhagen | Reuters — Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on Wednesday. Health authorities found virus strains in humans and in mink which showed decreased sensitivity against antibodies, potentially lowering the efficacy of
File photo of Rocky Mountain’s dealership at High River, Alta. (Country Guide photo by Scott Garvey)
Crops

Equipment dealer chain Rocky Mountain to go private

Publicly traded CNH dealer's top brass make offer

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Canada’s biggest farm equipment dealership chain has made a deal to take itself private after almost 13 years on the TSX. Rocky Mountain Dealerships (RME) announced Monday it has an agreement in place with a numbered Alberta company controlled by CEO Garrett Ganden and board chairman Matthew Campbell, for 100 per cent of RME at
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Foreign worker isolation support extended

Federal program extended alongside federal restrictions

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The federal program helping employers of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) cover the costs of isolating new workers for two weeks on their arrival in Canada has been extended through November. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced Monday that the Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program will now run to Nov. 30, as the government
To counter the growing prevalence of nationalistic policies, Canada is leading supportive countries in a WTO reform effort known as the Ottawa Group.
News, Other

Uncertainty in global markets continues with pandemic

Protectionist policies could exacerbate food insecurity globally

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The impact of COVID-19’s second wave is continuing to cause uncertainty in global markets. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), between October 2019 and May 2020, G20 economies implemented 154 new trade or related measures, finding 95 to be trade facilitating and 59 as trade restrictive. “In the early stages of the pandemic, several
Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles (bottom) for the United States, Hidalgo Secretary of Agriculture Carlos Muñiz Rodríguez for Mexico (upper right), and Manitoba Minister of Agriculture and Resource Development Blaine Pedersen (upper left) for Canada, sign the official communiqué following the 29th annual Tri-National Agricultural Accord meeting Oct. 20 to 22.
News, Other

CUSMA, COVID discussed by North American ag ministers

Manitoba’s Blaine Pedersen represented Canada

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Implementing the new North American trade agreement and COVID-19 were the main themes at the 29th annual Tri-National Agricultural Accord held online Oct. 20 to 22. “The USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) has delivered an era of modernized free and fair trade which will secure North America as the most powerful trading bloc in the world,” Ryan Quarles, Kentucky
The Exceldor Co-operative poultry-processing plant in Blumenort.
News, Other

Second Blumenort poultry plant worker dies of COVID-19

Over 50 workers at the Exceldor Co-operative facility have tested positive for the coronavirus

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A second worker at Blumenort’s Exceldor poultry processing plant has died after contracting COVID-19, the union said Nov. 1. “We want to offer our sincerest condolences,” said UFCW Local 832 president Jeff Traeger in a statement. “When someone loses a family member or a close friend, it’s a start reminder about how devastating this virus
Attendees try their hand at wheat grinding during and earlier Amazing Agriculture 
Adventure.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Ag in the Classroom pivots under COVID-19

Canadian Agricultural Partnership funding has been announced to help the organization switch to a more virtual program delivery

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Sue Clayton, executive director for Manitoba’s Agriculture in the Classroom, says new government funding will help the organization bolster online resources in the age of COVID-19. Why it matters: Agriculture in the Classroom typically offers hands-on ag experience to Manitoba students, but that will look different in the coming year. The federal and provincial governments
CBOT December 2020 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat hit two-week lows on COVID-19 fears

Commodity selling continues dragging on grains, analysts say

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain futures extended losses on Thursday, with corn and wheat hitting two-week lows as concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact weighed on prices. Improving global crop weather added pressure on prices, with rains benefiting dry wheat-growing areas in the U.S. and Russia and soybean-producing regions of Brazil, traders said.

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