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Beef cattle, Livestock

Canada, other countries raise meat inspection bar for Brazil

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Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Meat-importing countries from North America to Europe and Asia have tightened inspection standards for shipments from Brazil in a bid to protect consumers, following a probe into possible corruption involving inspectors. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said on Wednesday that the tighter inspection standards it enacted in April have resulted
Blooming rapeseed field at sunset
International news, Oilseeds

EU rapeseed in good shape despite early problems

Despite repeated frosts in Germany, production still seen above last year

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Rapeseed crops in the European Union’s largest producers are in reasonable condition despite the double blows of drought and late-spring frosts, experts said May 18. A question mark remains over crops in the third-largest producer, Poland, where frosts in early May hit rapeseed at a vulnerable time as hundreds of thousands of hectares of yellow
Livestock, News

Trade minister knows rural trade concerns

His constituency in Quebec is also home to many dairy farmers

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Trade Minister François Philippe Champagne likes to talk about how the proposed trade deal with Europe will eventually see most Canadian exports to the continent enter duty free. At the same time, his political circumstances make him well aware of rural concerns about the deal’s impacts, he told the Senate foreign affairs committee. In addition
Princess Anne says she’d plant GMO crops on her own land if she were legally allowed to.
Crops, International news

U.K. royals’ sibling rivalry on GMOs?

Princess Anne made the approving comments about GMO crops during a BBC radio interview

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Britain’s Princess Anne may have sparked some royal sibling rivalry after saying genetically modified crops had real benefits to offer, putting her at odds with her older brother Charles who says they would be an environmental disaster. In an interview with BBC radio, Anne said she would grow GMO crops on her farming estates, adding
DuPont’s Canadian head office in Mississauga. (Dupont.com)
Crops

Asset sale plan secures EU backing for Dow, DuPont merger

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Reuters — Dow Chemical and DuPont won the blessing of the European Union for their US$130 billion merger on Monday by agreeing to sell substantial assets including key research and development activities. The European Commission had been concerned that the merger of two of the biggest and oldest U.S. chemical producers would leave few incentives
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Crops

EU chemical agency says glyphosate not carcinogenic

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Helsinki | Reuters — Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, should not be classified as a substance causing cancer, the European Chemical Agency concluded on Wednesday, potentially paving the way for its licence renewal in the EU. A transatlantic row over possible risks to human health has prompted investigations by congressional committees in
Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for France’s 2017 presidential election, visits the International Agricultural Show in Paris on Feb. 28.
International news

France’s disillusioned farmers turn to Le Pen

Anti-EU, anti-globalization rhetoric strikes a chord

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France’s presidential pretenders are making mandatory campaign stops at the annual Paris farm fair as polls show farmers increasingly tempted by the far-right’s Marine Le Pen when they even bother to vote at all. Though only a fraction of the population still works in the farm sector, voters remain attached to the country’s agrarian roots,
Following the Brexit vote farmers are pulling in their horns and cutting investment plans.
International news

U.K. farmers hold on to cash, cut investment on Brexit uncertainty

Uncertain about trade access and farm programs they’re planning 
to cut investments in machinery and land

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British farmers are holding back on big investments as they brace for the U.K.’s exit from the European Union, their largest market and a vital source of subsidies. Agriculture enjoyed a brief boost after Britain voted to leave the bloc last June, when a weaker pound lifted profits by about 12 per cent and subsidy

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