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Wasting Away

By Laura Rance-Unger December 2, 2010

It’s long been known that Canadians are among the world’s most wasteful of water. We are just as bad, if not worse, with food. Researchers with the George Morris Centre at the University of Guelph recently came out with numbers that by any definition are shocking. A whopping $27 billion in food – more than

Dairy cattle, News

Canadians Throw Out $27 Billion Worth Of Food Annually

By Lorraine Stevenson December 2, 2010

Next time you’re tempted to scrape leftovers into the garbage or toss out unused food in the refrigerator, consider this: Canadians waste about 40 per cent of all food produced in the country. That mountain of edibles is worth $27 billion. That’s only slightly less than Canada’s agricultural and agri-food exports in 2007 and more

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Truckers And Marts Urged Not To Accept High-Risk Cattle

By Ric Swihart October 21, 2010

The days are ending for making a few bucks by shipping high-risk old, thin or arthritic beef and dairy cattle. Darren Malchow, a health-of- animals insector for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Lethbridge, said the cattle industry is sending the message to all levels that the quality of animals being sent to market is

News

Reforms Can Unlock Potential Of Eurasia Farms

By Alexandra Hudson October 21, 2010

Russia and Ukraine, where drought-hit harvests this year sent world grain prices soaring, could massively boost output with the right reforms, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). One key to development is land ownership classification, for example, allowing farmers to use land as collateral, or a system of crop receipts, as

Country Crossroads

People Must Control Food System, Meeting Told

By Ron Friesen October 21, 2010

For Racquel Koenig, it’s homegrown vegetables in northern Manitoba, where a bag of potatoes costs three to four times as much as it does in Winnipeg. For Terence Sibanda, it’s seed for farmers in Zimbabwe to grow their own crops instead of relying on food aid. Food justice means different things to different people, as

News

Farmers’ Share Of Food Dollar Continues Low: Survey – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Ron Friesen September 23, 2010

The cost of food went up this past year but not all of the increase returned to the farmer. Canadians paid $4.69 more for a standard weekly basket of groceries between 2009 and 2010. Farmers captured $4.12 of that increase, according to a survey sponsored by the three major Prairie farm groups. That’s a lot

Opinion

Ohio Livestock Growers Caged By Farm Groups – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Alan Guebert September 9, 2010

What was to be a clever, voter-sanctioned effort to fence out the animals- are-people-crowd in Ohio last year is, depending on your perspective, either a progressive way for farm and animal rights groups to work together toward humane livestock production or a total sellout of livestock producers by Big Ag to the Humane Society of

Opinion

CFIA’s Powers Have A Long Reach

By Ronald Doering May 27, 2010

ACanadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspector stopped at a farm and talked with the old farmer: “I’m here to inspect your farm.” The old farmer replied, “You better not go in that field.” The CFIA inspector replied in a solemn tone, “You don’t seem to understand. I have the authority of the federal government with

Crops

Soil Quality Is On The Public Radar

By Soil Conservation Council April 22, 2010

“National Soil Conservation Week allows us to celebrate this success and keep soils in the public eye.” – GLEN SHAW Farm soils are moving up the radar of public interest. Long the forgotten child of the environmental movement, there is growing evidence that soils are becoming of greater interest to the general public and the

Beef cattle, Livestock

Packers Not Villains In Beef Profits: Study

By Ron Friesen April 15, 2010

“There is no case to be made that packers are taking an unwarranted share of the revenue.” – CHARLIE GRACEY Although cattle producers receive only a small share of the beef dollar, packing plants are not the reason for their lack of profitability, according to a recent study. In fact, retailers get vastly more value

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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