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Why farmers should care

By Laura Rance-Unger November 21, 2012

The debate over backyard poultry taking place inside Winnipeg these days seems far removed from the real world of agriculture. A coalition of citizens is asking the city to reconsider its refusal to allow urbanites to produce eggs in their backyards. They aren’t being taken very seriously. If Councillor Grant Nordman is any indication, the

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Why were canola yields down?

By Allan Dawson November 21, 2012

Has canola turned into a wimp or were 2012’s lacklustre western Canadian yields due to poor weather, diseases, insects and pushed rotations? The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) hopes to find out later this month when it meets with the life science companies that produce new canola cultivars, MCGA director Ernie Sirski told the Keystone

Cereals, Crops, International news, News

China’s corn revolution promises great leap forward in yields

By Naveen Thukral, Niu Shuping November 22, 2012

Reuters / China’s farmers are using higher-yielding seeds and embracing modern technology in a shift that makes it less likely China will be a long-term major corn importer. Record Chinese imports of 5.5 million tonnes in 2011-12 helped drive up benchmark Chicago corn prices to $8 a bushel earlier this year — more than double

Crops, News

McCain names top potato growers for 2012

November 21, 2012

Red Baron Farms was named the 2011-12 McCain Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Carberry and Portage plants during the annual Growers’ Banquet held November 7 at the Carberry Community Memorial Hall. More than 200 guests gathered to celebrate the top growers and their achievements and enjoy a social evening together. Darryl Rowe, president of

News

Container regulation change angers food processors

By Alex Binkley November 21, 2012

A coalition of food processors and farm groups is protesting a federal plan to no longer require standard-size packages. New rules mean American food producers will no longer have to use Canadian-size packages and that will give some of them an advantage in the grocery store aisle, said Chris Kyte, president of the Food Processors

Beef cattle, News, Oilseeds

Teamwork pays off in increased agri-food exports and market access

By Alex Binkley November 21, 2012

Canada is the world’s sixth-largest exporter of agriculture and food products with sales of more than $40 billion

Canada has enjoyed considerable success in boosting agri-food exports thanks to close collaboration among governments and industry groups, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Ritz credited the Federal Market Access Team at Agriculture Canada and Agri-Food, which co-ordinates the Canadian approach to finding more buyers for food products. The department’s latest market access report highlights improved

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Canola futures see downward price action

By Dwayne Klassen November 21, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Canada platform experienced some weakness during the week ended November 9 with the bearishly construed USDA supply-demand balance tables for soybeans encouraging some of the downward price action. A larger-than-anticipated U.S. soyoil ending stocks estimate from the USDA added to the bearish sentiment in canola. The unloading of positions by

Livestock, News

KAP demands Ottawa improve meat inspections

By Allan Dawson November 21, 2012

It wasn’t farmers who screwed up at the XL Foods plant, but they’re the ones paying the price. That was the view of farmers attending the recent Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting. “We feel it’s the producers who are paying for someone else’s mistakes along the way,” said Minto farmer Bill Campbell. KAP passed

Country Crossroads, News

Recycle some baling twine

By Coco Aders November 21, 2012

Here’s a perfect way to recycle some of that baling twine and create a new watch strap. The strap is elasticized to fit most sizes and the loom is made from shish kebab skewers. (Shorter sticks result in the weave sliding down the elastic when being removed from the stick, causing the elastic to stretch

Opinion, Poultry

Why have hens in your backyard?

By Paul Chorney November 21, 2012

I spent my earliest years growing up in the north end of Winnipeg on Alfred Ave. My memories of that time are of a rich and vital neighbourhood life. We lived next door to Mrs. Lomow’s grocery store, which in addition to stocking fresh produce, seemed to a young boy to be a centre of

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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