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Celebrate Local Flavours

Celebrating Local Flavours was the theme of the evening kickoff to the 2011 Direct Farm Marketing Conference held in Portage la Prairie March 4 and 5. Twenty direct marketers of fine jellies, greenhouse-grown greens, artisanal baked goods, wines, gourmet sausages and other fine Manitoba-made foods and beverages brought their wares for the public to sample.
Livestock, Pulses

Pea Outlook Good

Cool conditions, and in some cases frost, has affected India’s dry pea crop, and that is expected to improve the export outlook for Canadian producers in the 2011-12 crop year, Fred Oleson, deputy director of the Market Analysis Group with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, told the annual GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg Feb. 28. “The frost
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Wanted: Young Farm Leaders

Canola checkoff dollars could soon be used to get younger farmers more involved in the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA). Most of the association’s $1-a-tonne checkoff goes to promote canola consumption crop and improve yields. But MCGA president Rob Pettinger said in an interview following the association’s March 1 annual meeting it might be time
Beef cattle, Livestock

Canada Records 18th BSE Case

They’re still finding homegrown BSE cases in Canada nearly eight years after the first one occurred. Canada’s latest case of BSE involves a 77-month-old dairy cow in Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed. The case was detected Feb. 18. As of last week, CFIA had yet to post it on its website. The agency
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

The Leadership Gap

The Manitoba Canola Growers Association president has a new crop he wants to see researched and developed with some of the $2.4 million it collected through farmer checkoffs last year. No, not a new type of canola. Young leaders. The association has just recently completed an extensive review and rewrite of its bylaws. There is
News, Oilseeds

Indonesia Links Good Data To Food Security

Indonesia’s Agriculture Ministry and statistics agency have signed an agreement aimed at releasing more agriculture data, to help food-security planning in the world’s fourth-most-populous nation. Like many emerging markets, Indonesia is battling booming global food prices, and has been forced to import various foods as it grapples with inflation. Analysts also say a lack of
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Prediction Of Record Canola Acres Meets Resistance

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a bit of a roller-coaster ride during the week ended March 5, as values pushed down one day and then moved up the next. On the week, canola values pushed upward thanks to steady domestic crusher demand, the surfacing of some fresh export demand and
Cereals, News

Conference Board Of Canada Issues Report On Grain Transport

Giving the grain-handling and transportation sector a more commercial orientation would improve its efficiency and speed up the movement of wheat from terminals to ports, says a report issued by the Conference Board of Canada. “The greater flexibility allowed by regulators has helped to address some of the industry concerns, with the result that performance
Cereals, Crops

Research And Development Seen As Key To Solving World Food Crisis

World agriculture needs a major research and development initiative to reverse declining crop production and avoid a global food crisis, says an international food policy expert. Agricultural output has slowed in the last 20 years – an alarming trend, given a growing world population and recent riots in various countries sparked by rising food prices,
News, Oilseeds

U.S. Crop Boom Not Enough To Rebuild Supply

Huge U.S. corn and soybean plantings this spring will likely fail to refill razor-thin stocks enough to quell the surge in grain prices, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Feb. 24. In updated forecasts for the world’s biggest crop exporter, the USDA warned that it could take several years to restore inventories to comfortable levels. It

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