Canadian Agriculture Literacy Month marks its 15th year with 159 volunteers visiting 436 Manitoba classrooms to connect students with agriculture.
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From farm gate to Grade 4: CALM celebrates 15 years in Manitoba classrooms
Ag industry volunteers bring farming and the food system to life for thousands of grade school students
EU looking to put the brakes on subsidy gravy train
British farmers will receive smaller subsidies in coming years, U.K. Farming Minister Jim Paice said, adding he favoured its eventual abolition as global food prices rise. “The single farm payment is going to go down,” said Paice, referring to the expected outcome of negotiations about the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. Senior EU officials
Information And Transparency Key To Market Stability
France’s presidency of the Group of 20 nations should focus on promoting transparency on agricultural data worldwide, and not so much regulation, speakers said at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit. France has blamed financial speculation in commodity markets for the surge in prices for food staples, and has called a meeting of G20
Sky-High Crop Acreage Targets Likely A Pipe Dream
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reiterated its projections for record-high combined plantings of corn, cotton and soybeans this spring at its annual Outlook Forum, dealing a fresh blow to crop prices by standing by its projections for potentially record-high crop production in 2011. But while record U.S. crop-planting estimates are all well and good on
Is Cheap Food Something To Celebrate?
There were three storms making headlines over the past week, and only two of them were weather related. While the storm dubbed “Stormageddon” spread a wintry blast across 30 U.S. states, the Australian coast was hit by a major cyclone. But the storm that had all the world on edge last week was taking place
Food Prices To Remain High
“If we get a climate shock in one of the major producing countries, then we are back to Square 1.” – JACQUES DIOUF Food prices are likely to rise again on resumed demand for agricultural commodities for food and energy and higher input costs due to rising oil prices, the United Nations’ food agency said
In Brief… – for Nov. 19, 2009
Shorter shipping stretches sought: A private members bill now before Parliament would reduce the maximum transportation time for ruminant livestock from 52 hours to 12 hours and from 36 to eight hours for pigs, poultry and horses. Bill C-468 was tabled by Brossard-La Prairie MP Alexandra Mendes October 28, according to the Canadian Coalition for
Brazil On Target In Slowing Amazon Deforestation
“Our objective is not only to meet but exceed the target in our climate change plan.” – CARLOS MINC, ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Brazil is on track to meet its target to reduce Amazon deforestation this year and will cut credit to ranchers and meat packers who raise or buy cattle from illegally logged land, the environment
The Great Land Grab
After the cold, wet and now frosty spring we’re experiencing, if foreign buyers came along and approached the federal government about buying up farmland on the Canadian Prairies, there’s a few farmers who’d be inclined to say, “Take it. Please.” That’s not likely to happen, at least not in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, because of legislation
World food balance seen unclear for next decade
World farming will face uncertainty for at least 10 years over how far supply and demand can be balanced, implying little short-term relief from price volatility, the EU’s leading agricultural producer France says. In a working paper authored by France and being discussed by EU agriculture ministers at an informal meeting in late September, Paris
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