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Production adviser says operations geared towards low-cost, high-volume calf production are better positioned for profits in 2013 than backgrounders
Record-high finishing costs and tight calf supplies mean 2013 will be the “year of the big decision” for ranchers, says production adviser Ray Bittner. “Are you a calf producer or are you a feedlot?” the Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives official asked attendees at the recent Beef and Forage days. Operations that have dependedBut the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board will continue to pursue a class-action lawsuit for $17 billion in compensation
With their appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada rejected, the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) are vowing to continue with a class-action lawsuit, their last remaining legal avenue for challenging the federal government’s decision to end the board’s monopoly last year. The Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals of the eightOwen Paterson says genetic modification isn’t a “frightening, new, spooky technology” and brings many benefits, including reduced pesticide and fuel use
Reuters / Britain’s farming and environment minister, Owen Paterson is calling for an acceleration in the European Union’s approval process for genetically modified crops, which he said offered benefits including less pesticide use. “I think we need to work with like-minded partners to move the (GM) legislation along at a European level because it is
