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COOL Outcome At WTO Still Has Long Way To Go

By Ron Friesen June 9, 2011

Don’t expect the U.S. country-of-origin labelling dispute to be over any time soon, despite a reported World Trade Organizat ion panel rul ing against it. A final outcome could still be years away, even if Canada does win the WTO case, said Kevin Grier, a livestock analyst with the George Morris Centre. “It’s going to

Hogs, Livestock

Planning For A Sow Housing Revolution

June 9, 2011

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. By the end of next year, pig producers in the European Union should have converted any existing sow stall housing into group housing. Legislation requires them

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

EU’s Rapeseed Woes May Boost Canadian Canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 2, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts surged higher during the week ended May 27, hitting their strongest levels in months as persistent weather issues in the Prairies, along with activity in outside markets, provided support. Without any fresh weather news, canola could be running out of steam to the upside, but any profit-taking setbacks should be

News

EU Lawmakers Reject Farm Policy Budget Cut

June 2, 2011

The European Union’s farm budget should be kept at least at its current level when the policy is reformed from 2014, an influential committee of EU lawmakers said May 25. The common agricultural policy (CAP) budget is currently worth about 55 billion euros ($77.35 billion) a year, or around 40 per cent of the bloc’s

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Drought Starting To Cut European Wheat Yields

By Michael Hogan May 19, 2011

Concern is growing that dryness is now damaging wheat in the European Union’s top producers France, Germany and Britain but late rain could still save the crops, analysts said on Tuesday. Some yield damage may have occurred in top EU wheat producer France, where harvest forecasts are being scaled back. In No. 2 producer Germany,

Livestock

Food Security Key To Global Peace FAO Candidate

May 19, 2011

The world has to act against hunger, which affects 13 per cent of the population, if it wants to strengthen global security, a candidate to run the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said April 27. Franz Fischler, an Austrian who is former EU agriculture commissioner, said during an interview the whipsaw effect of volatile food

News

Mercosur Trade Deal To Cost EU Farmers

By Charlie Dunmore May 12, 2011

European farmers could lose more than three billion euros in annual revenue by 2020 under any free trade deal between the European Union and Latin America’s Mercosur region, a study for the EU’s executive showed. The deepest losses would be felt by beef producers in Ireland, Britain and France, hit by a predicted 200,000-tonne annual

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for May. 12, 2011

By Reuters May 12, 2011

Viterra opens Montreal office:Canada’s biggest grain handler, Viterra Inc. has opened a marketing office in Montreal following a deal last month to run the grain terminal owned by Montreal Port Authority. The marketing office will increase Viterra’s ability to buy crops and sell them to buyers in Canada, the United States and Europe, the company

Crops

New Questions Being Raised About Benefit Of Biofuels

May 12, 2011

Anew report raising additional doubts about the green credentials of biofuels has stalled investment in Europe and threatens the future of some producers. After a two-year investigation, the European Commission has decided that the complex issue of “indirect land use change” can lessen carbon savings from biofuels. The concept is relatively new, and still being

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Officials Reject U.S. Criticism Of Supply Management

By Ron Friesen May 12, 2011

Canadian dairy officials are dismissing a U.S. industry report which claims supply management for milk does not work. The report by a U.S. dairy processors association plays fast and loose with the facts when it says supply management restricts industry growth and does not reduce price volatility, said Phil Cairns, senior policy adviser with Dairy

Daily Network News

JBS reaches deal with U.S. meatpacking workers who went on strike

Public consultation open on national beef code of practice

Pulse weekly: Indian forecasters predict below-normal monsoon

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