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Bulgaria Farmers’ Anger Mounts With Crisis

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Hard-pressed farmers buckling under debts, high costs and weak prices in Bulgaria are becoming more militant in a bid to force government help for a sector that was already on life support before the crisis. Farmers are frustrated that endemic corruption and bureaucracy are blocking their lifeline – 6.5 billion euros ($8.86 billion) of subsidies
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EU Farm Prices Seen Recovering After 2010

Europe’s agriculture markets will start to recover in the medium term due to encouraging demand expectations but global economic gloom will weigh heavily on prices at least until 2010, an EU study showed March 17. In its market outlook through to 2015, experts at the European Commission said demand would be especially hit in higher
Beef cattle, Livestock

Calm Attitude Dominates CCA Meeting

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The livestock industry across Canada is reeling from months of gloomy news, but despair was in scarce supply at the annual meet ing of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association as delegates took a long-term view of the industry’s prospects. President Brad Wildeman said in an interview there’s plenty of concern among producers about regaining the equity
Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Ranchers Eye More EU Access For Beef

U. S. ranchers who raise cattle without growth hormones may gain more access to European markets if the United States and European Union settle a beef trade dispute that has lasted more than 20 years, a U. S. industry spokesman said March 16. But the size of the additional market access has not been determined,
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EU New Market For Canada Canola

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Europe’s acceptance of genetically modified canola seed represents an important new market for Canadian farmers, but purchases from the world’s largest exporter of canola seed are unlikely any time soon. The European Commission ruled March 10 to allow import of a type of canola, which German seed developer Bayer CropScience created by modifying the canola
Cereals, Crops

U. K. Miller Offers High Praise For CWB, Canadian Wheat

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Small packages of a white powdery substance are quietly entering the U. S. from Canada on a regular basis. It’s the good stuff – primo, in fact. But it’s not cocaine or heroin. Nope, it’s flour milled from Western Canadian Red Spring wheat, considered the best in the world. And the “mules” hauling it south
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FAO Says Grain Prices Could Rebound

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Stocks of agricultural commodities remain low and prices could start to rise again if there is an earlier-than-expected economic rebound, Alexander Sarris of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said March 12. “Stocks are not very big now. They still have to be built up… If all of a sudden demand turns out to
Livestock

EU Farm Export Refunds Seen Unlikely After 2013

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The European Union will use export refunds (subsidies) as an emergency measure to support agricultural prices until 2013 but must then find new mechanisms, a leading official with the European Commission said March 11. If world prices are lower than internal support levels, the EU refunds the difference to exporters. “I personally don’t see that
Beef cattle, News

EU To End Beef War With U. S. And Canada?

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“The EU and U. S. are engaged in negotiations to find a way forward on this issue, and I am confident we will find a solution very soon.” – CATHERINE ASHTON The United States will hold off on new retaliatory duties for European products while the two countries work on a possible fix to a
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Keep Your Distance. But How Far?

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Only 15 of the European Union’s 27 countries have agreed laws for separating organic, traditional and biotech crops, with several reluctant even to debate such a sensitive issue, the EU’s farm chief says. EU countries have been encouraged to make their own laws to facilitate cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops if farmers want to

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