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Provincial Abattoirs May Get Freer Trade

By Ron Friesen July 15, 2010

“(The intent is) an outcome-based process where the standard is set by the quality of product.” – ALLAN PRESTON, MAFRI Along-standing promise to loosen up interprovincial trade may finally come true for provincially licensed livestock slaughter plants. Canada’s agriculture ministers have approved pilot projects to see how provincial plants can sell meat to other provinces

Hogs, Livestock

Small Hog Farmers Blamed For Destabilizing China Market

July 8, 2010

Small hog farmers have helped destabilize pork prices and played havoc with feed demand forecasts, according to the chairman of China’s top corn buyer New Hope Group. “Individual farmers, small in scale, have no plans in their breeding scale. Whenever the prices are good, they increase breeding and when prices are lower, they reduce pig

Crops, Forages

U. S. Court Relaxes Limits On Roundup Ready Alfalfa

By Ron Friesen July 1, 2010

“We’re waiting to hear what they’re going to decide.” – TRISH JORDAN, MONSANTO CANADA Both sides are claiming victory after the U. S. Supreme Court last week overturned a lower court ruling which imposed a ban on Roundup Ready alfalfa. The court ruled a district court judge in San Francisco overstepped his authority in preventing

Country Crossroads

Traditional High-Fat Diets Offer Health Benefits

By Lorraine Stevenson June 24, 2010

Born in 1939 in a remote community on Vancouver Island, Richard Atleo’s earliest food memories are of villagers eating feasts of salmon and seafood, foraged berries and gathered plant roots he can recall were “piled as high as a house.” Food at home was in stark contrast to the white bread, potatoes with a little

Livestock

Union Can’t Find New Inspectors

By Alex Binkley June 10, 2010

The new workers “must be ghosts, no one can find them, they’re nowhere.” – BOB KINGSTON The wrangling between the Harper government and the union representing food inspectors at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is on again following the presentation in Parliament of a report that says the agency has added 93 inspectors to its

News

World Food Safety At Risk From Climate Change: Lewis

By Ron Friesen June 3, 2010

“It’s paralyzing to see such hunger. But you can’t compromise on food safety.” – STEPHEN LEWIS Climate change poses a huge danger to food safety, especially in Africa, where many already go hungry, a national food science summit in Winnipeg was warned May 31. “Volcanic shifts” in weather patterns expected in the next 20 to

News

CFIA Gets A Chief Food Safety Officer

By Alex Binkley June 3, 2010

The Canadian government is creating a position of chief food safety officer and named Brian Evans, currently executive vice-president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to the post effective June 28. Evans will remain chief veterinary officer. The May 25 announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper also said that George Da Pont, currently commissioner

Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Acknowledges Role In “Super Weeds”

By Carey Gillam June 3, 2010

Monsanto Co. said on May 27 it will restructure its herbicide products in an effort to help combat the spreading environmental woes of herbicide-resistant weeds, also known as “super weeds,” which many critics have blamed on the chemical giant. “We need to get in front of this,” Monsanto chairman Hugh Grant said in a conference

Country Crossroads

White House Garden Changing Attitudes

By Allan Dawson May 27, 2010

“In the single year since the groundbreaking, Mrs. Obama has caused a dramatic paradigm shift.” – EDDIE GEHMAN KOHAN When the first lady broke ground for a garden on the south lawn of the White House last spring, it was front-page news in the New York Times and Washington Post. Michelle Obama planted the first

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

Daily Network News

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Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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