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Cap’n Crunch and chocolate chip cookies don’t score well

Researchers find that Canadian and U.S. labelling systems 
make little difference

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Canadian and U.S. nutrition labelling systems aren’t helpful in helping consumers make wise food choices, say McGill University researchers. In a study published in the December issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, the researchers compared four different labelling systems and found that the Nutrition Facts label currently required on most
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Cereals, Crops, National news, Oilseeds

FP Genetics unveils CWRS Certified Seed Profit Guarantee

The company is confident its new wheats will outperform bin-run varieties

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FP Genetics is so confident one of its new Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheats is more profitable than older varieties grown from bin-run seed, it’s guaranteeing it. “We’ve developed a program that allows a grower to upgrade their wheat genetics at no risk to them,” FP Genetics CEO Rod Merryweather said in a news
International news, News

New FAO chief says food prices may ease in 2012

Jose Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian who replaced Senegal’s Jacques Diouf at the helm of the FAO at the start of 2012, said volatility in food markets was likely to continue and that, “Prices will not be going up as in the sense of the last two to three years but will also not drop
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EU Gets Tough On Dirty Biofuel, Pledges More Action

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Europe’s energy chief announced seven green certification schemes for biofuels last month and promised to tackle the unwanted side-effects of turning food into fuel. Guenther Oettinger said biofuels’ indirect impacts were dangerous for the planet’s carbon balance and food supply. “It is a real concern … particularly in the big producing countries, Southeast Asia and
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Russia May Extend Grain Export Ban

Russia, worried by soaring food prices and a shortage of grain to feed its livestock, may extend its ban on grain exports until the end of the year, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said. “We are working on potential forecasts that involve keeping the ban in place until the end of the year,” Zubkov told
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Africa, Caribbean Urged To Brace For Food Price Shocks

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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are warning poor regions that have so far not been hit by rising food prices, like sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to get ready to face them. Food price volatility is here to stay, the World Bank cautioned, amid growing worries there could be another full-blown food crisis
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UN Food Body FAO Warns Against Food Export Curbs

The United Nations’ food agency warned food-producing countries Jan. 26 against introducing export curbs to protect local markets as world food prices rose close to levels that triggered food riots in 2007- 08. Global food prices rose above 2008 highs in December with the Food Price Index of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Opinion

Feeding Our Habit

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Despite the millions of starving people in the world in the autumn of 2007, a looming expansion in use, and successive low-yielding crops, the market was telling us not to grow food. Longtime readers of my prognostications will note that I predicted the biofuel market would make grain prices more volatile, but not necessarily higher.
Crops

More Effort Needed To Break Doha Impasse

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Ministers from major trading powers decided May 27 to redouble efforts for a deal in the stalled Doha round, arguing that opening up global trade would boost the world economy without hitting budgets. They acknowledged the 8-1/2-year-old Doha round was at an impasse and that serious negotiations – away from the glare of the media
Crops, Forages, Opinion

Catering To Affluence

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We often fail to recognize just how rich and spoiled we’ve become. The upward affluence trajectory, happening in much of the world, is having a profound impact on what people want from agriculture. Futurist Lowell Catlett from New Mexico State University recently told the Managing Excellence in Agriculture conference in Saskatoon, that recessions happen from

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