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Finding Common Ground

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Farm organizations and rural advocacy groups haven’t exactly been tripping over themselves to sign on to the Manitoba Food Charter. In fact, the Manitoba Women’s Institute – once a fearless advocate for similar values – voted almost unanimously a couple of years back against a resolution to support it. Likewise, mainstream farmers have been noticeably
News

Organic Beats High Input, No Till

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“The organic systems were giving us higher net returns, and also more stable net returns, so a banker would really like that.” – BOB ZENTNER A 12-year study in semi-arid central Saskatchewan, comparing conventional, reduced-tillage and organic farming, found organic was the most profitable and made the most efficient use of non-renewable energy inputs. But
News

U. S. Applies New Sanctions On EU

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The outgoing Bush administration cranked up pressure on the European Union to drop its ban on beef from U. S. cattle treated with growth hormones by changing the list of $116.8 million worth of European food products hit with sanctions in the dispute. The EU reacted angrily to the move, vowing to challenge it at
News, Pulses

Encourage Traditional Diets, Symposium Urged

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It’s good to promote health benefits and create new food products with pulses, but don’t forget the traditional ways beans and other pulses have been eaten in culture, an American professor of nutrition told the second annual Pulse Health and Food Symposium. Donna Winham, a professor in the department of nutrition at Arizona State University,
News, Other livestock

U. S. farm leader defends COOL

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A North Dakota farm leader has suggested U. S. meat packers are exaggerating the extra costs with which obeying country-of-origin food labelling (COOL) will allegedly burden them. Robert Carlson, North Dakota Farmers Union president, said he doesn’t believe it’s as hard or expensive to segregate animals at slaughter plants according to their country of origin
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Listeria investigator announced

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It took almost four months but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has got someone to investigate the Maple Leaf Foods listeria outbreak of last summer. Just how Sheila Weatherill, former president and CEO of Capital Health in Edmonton, will investigate the outbreak that killed 20 and sickened at least 50 more may be a secret until
Beef cattle, Cereals, Hogs, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Ritz says expanding trade key priority

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz wants to focus on finding more customers for Canadian farm and food products and less on the future of Prairie barley marketing. Speaking to reporters in mid-January after official visits to India and Hong Kong, the minister said he’s looking forward to trips to the Middle East, Russia, Mexico and China
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Fresh ideas for rejuvenating country fairs

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“Our last two generations have forgotten how to cook, how to garden, how to sew, how to can.” – Doris Fletcher The volunteers who log countless hours organizing community fairs should not lose sight of why they got involved in the first place, community development expert and motivational speaker Paul Born says. “Caring is the
Country Crossroads

EU to scrutinize competition in food retail sector

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EU regulators warned Nov. 26 of a risk that consolidation in the food retail sector might act against the interests of consumers and producers, saying a close watch should be kept on uncompetitive behaviour. A draft paper authored by the European Commission called for case-by-case screening of a string of retail practices that could be
News, Oilseeds

World food system exploits consumers: activist

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Raj Patel held up a Snickers bar, examined the list of ingredients and proclaimed it the key to understanding the world’s food system. The list included cocoa, likely from the Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producer and an employer of child labour. It also included lecithin, an emulsifier made from soybean oil, found in

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