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Canada’s ag output seen likely rising under climate change

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team September 18, 2018

CNS Canada — A new United Nations report suggests just how climate change will reshape agriculture by 2050 — and that Canada’s production capacity stands to benefit. International trade will play an ever-larger role in helping to feed people in food-deficient regions, as warmer temperatures and less precipitation will damage yields in many tropical areas,

Crops

AMIS adjusts world grain production outlooks

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team July 7, 2018

CNS Canada –– Global supply-demand outlooks, released by the market monitoring agency of an alliance of 11 international organizations, point to lower corn production for 2018-19. The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) Market Monitor report for July said the record corn harvest in 2017-18 will slip by more than four per cent in 2018-19. That’s

Crops

Syrian agriculture faces US$16 billion bill from conflict

By GFM Network News, Umberto Bacchi April 3, 2017

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Syria’s six-year conflict has caused at least US$16 billion in damage to agriculture — about a third of the country’s GDP — a U.N. agency said on Monday, calling for more funds to salvage local food production as millions go hungry. Fighting has led to extensive crop and livestock

Columns, Editorial

Editorial: Where have all the good times gone?

By Gord Gilmour December 15, 2016

Lately, it’s seemed like one story after another about a record or near-record harvest has passed across my desk. In November, the USDA upped their estimate of an already-record 2016-17 crop. The agency said soybeans would come in at 4.269 billion bushels and corn at 15.057 billion bushels. Market watchers, already expecting a big crop,

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Lentils, chickpeas can help reverse soil erosion trend, U.N. says

By Alex Whiting, GFM Network News December 5, 2016

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Planting more lentils, chickpeas and other pulses will improve the health of the world’s soils that have reached critical levels, threatening to worsen hunger and poverty levels, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. About a third of the world’s soils are degraded because of soil

Temple ruins at Palmyra in central Syria. (CIA.gov)

Cereals, Crops

Food production in Syria reported at all-time low

By GFM Network News, Stephanie Nebehay November 15, 2016

Geneva | Reuters — Food production has dropped to an all-time low in Syria where millions of hungry civilians are struggling through their sixth winter in a war zone, United Nations agencies said Tuesday. Many farmers have had to abandon their land, unable to afford the soaring cost of seeds, fertilizers and tractor fuel, the

Crops

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

By GFM Network News, Maha El Dahan August 29, 2016

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt reinstated on Sunday a controversial ban on wheat shipments containing even the slightest amount of a common grain fungus, baffling traders who had returned to the Egyptian market just last month when the ban was lifted. The world’s largest wheat importer said on Sunday it was re-introducing its zero

Erwin Northoff (r), chief of media for FAO, presents the Star Prize to Laura Rance at the 2016 IFAJ Congress in Bonn, Germany. (IFAJ.org)

Crops

FBC editorial chief wins major international awards

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 15, 2016

Laura Rance, editorial director of Farm Business Communications and editor of the Manitoba Co-operator, has won two major international awards for her work on African agriculture. Rance won the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Star Prize for ‘Africa’s Hunger Games,’ published in the Winnipeg Free Press in April 2015. The same piece was awarded

Markets

Food commodity prices seen stable over next decade

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 5, 2016

Paris | Reuters –– Higher agricultural productivity and slightly larger crop areas in the coming decade will cover rises in food demand, leading to stable prices and a period of more restrained agricultural markets, the FAO and OECD said Monday. In their annual Agricultural Outlook report, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Organisation for

Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Egypt returns to zero tolerance of ergot in wheat

By GFM Network News, Maha El Dahan June 8, 2016

Abu Dhabi/Cairo | Reuters — Egypt has rejected two shipments of wheat for containing trace levels of the ergot fungus, backtracking on a government pledge to apply international standards and alarming traders looking to do business with the world’s largest buyer of the grain. Earlier this year traders boycotted state wheat tenders after the country’s

Daily Network News

Budget cuts may signal shift away from food aid says Canadian Foodgrains Bank

China lifts Brazilian poultry imports ban over bird flu

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slow descent

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Canada’s ag output seen likely rising under climate change

AMIS adjusts world grain production outlooks

Syrian agriculture faces US$16 billion bill from conflict

Editorial: Where have all the good times gone?

Lentils, chickpeas can help reverse soil erosion trend, U.N. says

Food production in Syria reported at all-time low

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

FBC editorial chief wins major international awards

Food commodity prices seen stable over next decade

Egypt returns to zero tolerance of ergot in wheat

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