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Research needed to improve crop adaptation to changing global climates

By Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer January 13, 2012

At the last minute — actually during an extension of time — the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Conference of Parties or COP17) in Durban, South Africa late last year, came to an agreement under which the participating nations committed themselves to extend the Kyoto Protocol and work toward adopting a new

Opinion

Canada Well Positioned To Capitalize On Growing Food Demand

By Brian Lee Crowley November 17, 2011

When, in 1965, Bob Dylan wailed, I ain t gonna work on Maggie s farm no more, he was echoing the mental picture almost all of us have about conditions on the farm. The dirty thirties largely spawned the identification of farming with grinding poverty, primitive technologies and capricious commodity prices, and the image has

Opinion

The Climate Change Conundrum

By Laura Rance-Unger June 23, 2011

ith the June 20 crop insurance past, farmers and their crop insurance agents are pulling on their galoshes to assess the W damages from yet another spring with too much water. Cattle producers are worrying about winter feed supplies as they watch flood waters inundate their hayfields. We are told this year is one for

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for May. 12, 2011

By Reuters May 12, 2011

Viterra opens Montreal office:Canada’s biggest grain handler, Viterra Inc. has opened a marketing office in Montreal following a deal last month to run the grain terminal owned by Montreal Port Authority. The marketing office will increase Viterra’s ability to buy crops and sell them to buyers in Canada, the United States and Europe, the company

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

N. Korea Must Step Up Fight On Foot-And-Mouth — FAO

March 31, 2011

North Korea’s capacity to detect and contain outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in livestock needs significant strengthening, the UN food agency FAO and the world animal health body OIE said Mar. 24. The FAO and the OIE, which sent a joint mission in the reclusive communist state in late February-early March, said FMD cases have been

Crops

Chronic Food Deficit In N. Korea — UN

March 17, 2011

Impoverished North Korea faces a chronic food shortage following a harsh winter which has affected its harvest, a United Nations official said March 11. Years of mismanaged farm policy and natural disasters in the 1990s resulted in famine that some estimates said killed as many as a million people. “We know that they have had

Cereals, Crops

Canadian Wheat Board CEO Sees Shift In Food Pricing

By Rod Nickel March 3, 2011

Farmers in Canada, the world’s third-largest wheat exporter, are set to sow many of the millions of acres left fallow last year, even as volatile crop prices underscore a new economic reality for grain markets. After a week in which disconnected political upheaval in Libya triggered the biggest price collapse in months, the chief executive

News

Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

By Alex Binkley February 17, 2011

The federal and provincial governments should encourage farmers to ramp up production this year to take advantage of strong prices but also help ease tight world stocks of grain and other commodities, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. They issued reports in early February urging gover nments

News

Biofuel Jatropha Doesn’t Measure Up

By Juliane Von Reppert January 27, 2011

Jatropha, a biofuel-producing plant once touted as a wonder crop, is turning out to be much less dependable than first thought, both environmentalists and industry players say. Some biofuel producers found themselves agreeing with many of the criticisms detailed in a report launched by campaign group Friends of the Earth this week “Jatropha: money doesn’t

Cereals, News

World Farming To Get Climate Adaptation Aid

By Laurie Goering November 25, 2010

Development agencies worldwide are joining forces to spend $200 million in a 10-year program to help the agriculture sector prepare for climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions, farm research groups said Nov. 17. The funding will go to research on how to feed a growing, more affluent world population in the face of expectations

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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