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A Boost For Wheat Research

By Laura Rance-Unger April 14, 2011

It’s nice to see headlines about the need for more investment into wheat research these days, even if some of the stories swirling around that topic are a mite confused. Last week started with news reports in mainstream dailies across Canada citing a leaked memo from the National Research Council and reporting that genetically modified

Opinion

Let’s Keep Risks In Perspective

By Kevin Hursh April 14, 2011

The nuclear crisis in Japan is likely to have a big impact on the future development of the nuclear industry around the world. In a less direct way, it could also lead to more starving people. The link between the two issues is trust. Nuclear power generation is safe, we’ve been told. Unfortunately, no one

Opinion

The Food Versus Fuel Debate Continued

March 31, 2011

With all the strange and highly unpredictable events in the global economy, the tension between economics and politics in the U.S. is making things even more interesting. Consider this: a highly indebted U.S. government pays ethanol producers 45 cents for each gallon they produce, while at the same time imposing a 54-cent tariff on imports.

Livestock

CFIA To Go Public With Companies’ Safety Violations

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 24, 2011

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is going online with the outcomes of its enforcement work on food safety. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on March 16 announced the CFIA will issue reports on such activities, including information such as: Food imports that have been refused entry into Canada; Federally registered food establishments whose licences have

News

Food Safety Offenders To Be Revealed

By Alex Binkley March 24, 2011

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will start posting the names of importers and domestic food companies that run afoul of food safety laws. “This is a fair and balanced way to protect consumers,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told a media briefing at a small community grocery store. “While consumers have a high degree of confidence

Opinion

Cheap Food Versus Expensive Oil

By Kevin Hursh March 17, 2011

You can’t have cheap food and expensive oil. It just doesn’t work. For hundreds of millions of people who earn only a dollar or two a day, increasing prices for staple foods like grains, pulses, rice and cooking oil is a big deal. Canadians spend only about 11 per cent of their disposable income on

News

Worries Aside, U.S. Has “Foot On The Gas” On Ethanol

March 10, 2011

The United States “can do it all” – turn more corn into ethanol without running short of food, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Feb. 24, as oil prices soared and the government raised its forecast of food price increases this year. “There is no reason for us to take the foot off the gas,” said

Livestock

Outlook Improving, But Problems Remain, Politicos Tell CFA

By Alex Binkley March 3, 2011

The next few years appear positive for farmers with both crop and livestock prices on the rise, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Farmers have rebounded from the BSE crisis in the beef industry, influenza outbreaks in the poultry sector, widespread bankruptcies among pork farmers and depressed grain prices, he told the annual meeting of the

Cereals, News

Argentina Dissolves Agricultural Export Regulator

By Jonathan Saul March 3, 2011

Argentina has dissolved the agricultural trade agency ONCCA responsible for the country’s corn and wheat export limits, and the government said it will still seek to guarantee domestic supply of grains. It was unclear what the move would mean for Argentina’s heavily regulated export policies, which have angered farmers for years. President Cristina Fernandez’s government

Cereals, News

Food Costs At Records, UN Warns Of Volatile Era

By Svetlana Kovalyova February 10, 2011

Record-high global food prices showed no sign of relenting following a rash of catastrophic weather, highlighted by a major U.S. snowstorm and a cyclone in Australia, which could put yet more pressure on prices and spark further unrest around the world. The closely watched UN Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index touched its highest

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives food supply

A Boost For Wheat Research

Let’s Keep Risks In Perspective

The Food Versus Fuel Debate Continued

CFIA To Go Public With Companies’ Safety Violations

Food Safety Offenders To Be Revealed

Cheap Food Versus Expensive Oil

Worries Aside, U.S. Has “Foot On The Gas” On Ethanol

Outlook Improving, But Problems Remain, Politicos Tell CFA

Argentina Dissolves Agricultural Export Regulator

Food Costs At Records, UN Warns Of Volatile Era

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