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Canada raises COOL with Vilsack

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

Gerry Ritz was in Washington, D.C. last week promoting agricultural trade, science-based regulations and the elimination of mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL). “At this stage of our economic recovery no one can afford a thickening of the border,” Ritz told reporters during a telephone news conference Feb. 24. “That’s why our two countries are committed to

Livestock, News

CFIA accountability process strengthened

By Alex Binkley March 14, 2012

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is taking steps to become more accountable to farmers and food processors. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has released new CFIA policies on rights and services that outline its service standards and what the agri-food sector can expect when dealing with the agency. “We know there is always room to improve,”

International news, News

KFC and Pizza Hut hope India will fall in love with fast food

By Lisa Baertlein March 14, 2012

Rati Motwani of Mumbai treats her seven-year-old daughter to a fast-food fix almost every weekend. Western chains increasingly are gaining a following and changing old dining habits, she says. “In Indian cities today, pizza and burgers have become staples and have replaced the traditional daal and chawal (lentils and rice), which we grew up eating.

International news, Livestock, News

Nepal crocodile farm aims to save species

By Gopal Sharma March 14, 2012

As Prem Sharma steps gingerly into the sand-filled chamber, lines of baby crocodiles basking in the warm sunshine splash into a pond, eyes glinting behind their long, thin snouts. Sharma quietly puts his hand into the green water, takes a young reptile from the pool, opens its mouth with a brush and begins to clean

Beef cattle, Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: March 8, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson March 14, 2012

I grin each time I spot this recipe in community cookbooks, new or old. It is for Stay-A-Bed-Stew. Obviously, it’s an all-time favourite — but why? Stay-A-Bed-Stew is from The I Hate to Cook Book published by Peg Bracken in 1960. Bracken was an American advertising copywriter and a working mother in the late 1950s,

Country Crossroads, News

Local food keeps money in the local economy

By Shannon VanRaes March 14, 2012

What protects a nation’s sovereignty? Is it borders, or the military? Government perhaps? If you ask Winona LaDuke, she would point you to the dinner table. “I don’t think you can say you’re sovereign if you can’t feed yourself,” she said, quoting a fellow Aboriginal activist. The environmentalist, writer, Harvard-educated economist and one-time American vice-presidential

International news, News

Cuba reports food output up 8.7 per cent in 2011

March 5, 2012

Cuba’s non-sugar agricultural production increased 8.7 per cent in 2011, the government said this week, an indication reforms aimed at reversing a farm crisis and cutting food imports may be kicking in. Produce output was up 11.5 per cent and livestock and related products six per cent, according to the report issued by the National

Opinion

India’s rising wealth and food security not reflected in its children

By Annie Banerji March 5, 2012

Crying as she is put on an electronic scale, two-year-old Rajini’s naked, shrivelled frame casts a dark shadow over a rising India, where millions of children have little to eat. The children are scrawny, listless and sick in this rundown nutrition clinic in central India with its intermittent power supply. If they survive they will

Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

The economics of animal welfare

By Laura Rance-Unger March 5, 2012

Back in the early 1990s, when University of Manitoba animal scientist Laurie Connor first oversaw local research into hoop-housing systems for hogs, animal welfare wasn’t really even on the public radar. The key questions of the day were whether keeping pigs outdoors through a Prairie winter compromised production efficiency. Connor told a seminar last week

Beef cattle, Cereals, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

China trip boosts food industry

By Alex Binkley March 5, 2012

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trade mission to China seems to have opened doors for major Canadian agri-food exporters. Now they’ll have to translate those agreements into orders. The beef, pork, pulse and canola sectors all received special attention during the visit and the Canadian Wheat Board got to remind everyone it isn’t going out of

Daily Network News

India, Japan canola crops to be steady in 2026/27 – USDA

ICE Weekly: Trade waits for canola to break out

Non-canola interest free limit set at $250,000 for 2026 Advance Payments Program

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