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Pork prices have risen and if sky-high feed prices come back to earth, then hard-hit producers may get ‘some profit back,’ says the head of the Manitoba Pork Council
Hog producers could see some relief from high feed costs this year, but not in time for summer, says the chair of the Manitoba Pork Council. “All signs are for a record corn acreage to be sown in the U.S. this spring, which could really bring some relief to the feed grain prices this fall,”The farms seem impossibly small and the challenges overwhelmingly huge, but Kenyans are creating marketing chains, improving productivity and even doing value added
Kenya’s story is a familiar one in African agriculture: Small farms, a great need for more production, and yet a high amount of post-harvest waste — often because farmers simply can’t get their product to market. But things are changing. “Kenyans need to do it themselves,” says Rien Geuze, agribusiness adviser for Agriterra, a DutchRichard Phillips is a seed grower from Saskatchewan who has worked for several industry organizations
Richard Phillips is the new president of the Canada Grains Council. The 54-year-old has been the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada for the past six years and is “ideally suited” for his new role, said grains council chair Chantelle Donohue. Phillips, a third-generation seed grower from Tisdale, Sask., has worked as anCanada has not ruled out WTO action against Russia for banning meat from Canadian plants over ractopamine
China has softened its three-year-old import restrictions on Canadian canola, while Russia is set to erect barriers to some of Canada’s biggest meat-packing plants, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said April 16. China approved one additional oilseed-crushing plant, the 600,000-tonne CNOOC-Biolux plant in Nantong, Jiangsu province, to accept shipments of Canadian canola seed, a cropThere have been huge crop acreage shifts in the last 15 years, but expert says what happens next is just a guesstimate
Chuck Penner confirmed what most already knew — making price and acreage forecasts isn’t an exact science. “I’m in this business, but I really have to admit that they are really just guesstimates,” the president of LeftField Commodity Research said at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting. “When these people make these crop forecasts
