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CdC Triffid Flax Scare Threatens Access To No. 1 EU Market

By Allan Dawson September 17, 2009

Like a movie monster that refuses to die, CDC Triffid, a genetically modified (GM) Canadian flax deregistered in 2001, has surfaced in Germany, European Union (EU) officials believe. And flax prices have plummeted just as farmers feared they might when they lobbied to have the variety voluntarily pulled from the market. Although the Canadian Food

News

Funds To Implement Food Safety

By Alex Binkley September 17, 2009

The federal government will spend $75 million during the next few years to implement the 57 recommendations from special investigator Sheila Weatherill for preventing listeria and improving food safety. “We are making significant investments to hire more inspectors, update technologies and protocols and improve communication so that Canadians have the information they need to protect

Livestock

ID Tag Deadline Approaching

By CCIA September 10, 2009

The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) is reminding producers that as of Jan. 1, 2010 all cattle must be tagged with an approved CCIA Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. “Of the three pillars of traceability, we have achieved animal identification. Once we have completed the second pillar – premises identification – the industry will require

Cereals, Crops

More Notice Before Wheats Deregistered

By Allan Dawson September 10, 2009

“The word wasn’t getting out.” Western Canada’s grain industry will get at least three years, notice before a wheat or durum wheat variety is deregistered, which makes it only eligible to grade feed or No. 5 Canada Western Amber durum. The names of varieties to be deregistered will be posted on the Canadian Grain Commission’s

Livestock

Ottawa Won’t Budge On Traceability Deadline

By Ron Friesen August 27, 2009

The Canadian government will not change its 2011 target date for mandatory cattle traceability, even though producers say it’s not achievable. “If we don’t have a target, it’ll never happen,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association national convention here. “The date is there. It is solid. We’re firm on it. We’re looking

Beef cattle, Livestock

Market Access Secretariat Ready

By Ron Friesen August 27, 2009

“There haven’t been the resources available to go and attack the world.” – TED HANEY, CBEF Anewly created federal agency to develop new foreign markets for Canadian agricultural products should be fully operational by September 30. The Agricultural Market Access Secretariat (AMAS) expects to have staff hired by September 15 amid high expectations for new

Crops, Oilseeds

U. S. Food Safety Worries Hit Canadian Canola Meal

By Rod Nickel August 20, 2009

Salmonella-tainted Canadian canola meal has run into a headwind of American food-safety concerns, a trend that threatens to pressure canola futures during a rapid expansion period for the industry. Since March, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has refused one Canadian shipment of canola (a variant of rapeseed) and three shipments of canola meal.

Opinion

What Does “Organic” Really Mean?

By Ronald Doering August 13, 2009

The word “organic” has proved to be one of the most powerful words in today’s supermarket. But what, people always ask me, does it mean? For many, it means food coming from an idyllic, little local family farm where no pesticides or chemical fertilizers are used and where the little animals roam free and happy

News

Controversy Over New SmartStax Corn

By Alex Binkley August 6, 2009

A new genetically engineered corn var iety has been approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after reviewing the combination of previously approved traits blended into the plant through cross breeding. Krista Thomas, acting national manager of the Plant Biosafety Office, said in an interview July 28 the SmartStax corn variety from Monsanto and Dow

Hogs, News

China Erects Pork Wall At Alberta Border

By Ron Friesen July 30, 2009

Don’t get Grant Lazaruk going about H1N1. And don’t ever let him hear you call it swine flu. The disease and its unfortunate name have been nothing but a headache for Lazaruk’s company Hytek Ltd. and its hog processing plant, Springhill Farms in Neepawa. That’s because Hytek was recently forced to ship pork to China

Daily Network News

Prairie wheat bids mixed to start December

More U.S. soybean shipments to China due to load through mid-December

Prairie forecast: Northwest flow ushers in a wintery pattern across the Prairies

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