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Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets

California’s BSE case has no lasting impact here

By Dwayne Klassen May 3, 2012

Cattle movement at auction yards in Manitoba slowed somewhat during the week ended April 27 as farmers start to concentrate on spring field work. However, the big news that had the Manitoba cattle market buzzing was the discovery of an animal in the U.S. with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or more commonly known as mad

Dairy cattle, Did you know?, Livestock, News

Surely it beats serving in Iraq?

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 30, 2012

U.S. employment firm CareerCast has issued its annual ratings of best and worst jobs, and it isn’t good news if you are trying to hire someone for your dairy farm. Dairy farmer ranked as the second-worst job for 2012, worse than last year, when it ranked 16th. Poor working environment and stress coupled with physical

Crops, Dairy cattle, Forages, Livestock, News

Alberta firm records first alfalfa sale to China

March 24, 2012

Staff / Green Prairie International, a global wholesale supplier of quality forage products located in Alberta, has become the first Canadian company to ship alfalfa into the Chinese market. Twenty containers of Canadian alfalfa hay have been shipped to China and 40 more containers have been ordered; the total estimated $600,000, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz

News, Opinion

Lies, damned lies… and statistics

By Laura Rance-Unger March 14, 2012

Last week began with the latest Canadian farm income outlook delivered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a report that by most accounts was pretty bullish on farm income projections for the next 10 years or so. In fact, it was the kind of report that is likely to have the farming community squirming for a

News

Glass is still half full for flush American farmers

By Christopher Doering, Tom Polansek March 14, 2012

Brian Roach scrawled a simple outlook for corn prices in a spiral notebook, with a line diving from the upper left hand corner to the lower right. Sitting in a hotel ballroom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual Agricultural Outlook Forum last week, the commodity broker predicted increasing supplies and weakening demand would slow

International news, News

U.S. Plains farmland values jump again

By Christine Stebbins March 5, 2012

Farmland prices in the U.S. Plains states extended record-setting gains in the fourth quarter of 2011, rising 25 per cent from a year earlier as cash-rich farmers competed for land, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said Feb. 15. In a quarterly survey that provides an important gauge of the U.S. agricultural economy, the

News

Survey shows good help really is hard to find in farm sector

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2012

Good help is hard to find. As the number of farms in Canada decrease and remaining farms grow larger, producers need to look at new methods of recruiting employees, Debra Hauer of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council told attendees at Keystone Agricultural Producers annual general meeting. A survey done by the organization found farm

International news, News

Sioux County, Iowa: Ground zero for U.S. farm booms

By P.J. Huffstutter January 27, 2012

If there is an epicentre of the nation’s farmland boom, it can be found here amid the rolling hills of northwest Iowa. A fortune is being plowed into the dirt of Sioux County, where well-heeled farmers and wealthy investors compete fiercely for some of the most fertile land in the corn belt. Prices across Iowa

International news, News

Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

January 27, 2012

Germany’s giant association of farming co-operatives said a decision by BASF to transfer its research into crops with genetically modified organisms from Germany to the U.S. and other countries will be “disastrous for Europe as a location for agricultural industries.” The German chemical company plans to move its biotech unit in Limburgerhof to North Carolina,

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets

China imports dairy cows

By Lucy Horn, Niu Shuping January 25, 2012

China is importing more dairy cows to try and beef up its transition to larger-scale farms, as the industry attempts to boost production and quality following a deadly scandal. China plans to nearly double milk production to 64 million tonnes by 2020, as part of a long-term plan by the Ministry of Agriculture to improve

Daily Network News

CFIA updates plant protection regulations

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat ease after gains driven by Black Sea jitters

CBOT Weekly: Watching for Chinese soybean purchases

Tag Archives Farm

California’s BSE case has no lasting impact here

Surely it beats serving in Iraq?

Alberta firm records first alfalfa sale to China

Lies, damned lies… and statistics

Glass is still half full for flush American farmers

U.S. Plains farmland values jump again

Survey shows good help really is hard to find in farm sector

Sioux County, Iowa: Ground zero for U.S. farm booms

Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

China imports dairy cows

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