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Domestic pulse processing touted

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 27, 2012

More processing is key to the long-term success of the pulse sector in Western Canada, the head of the country’s largest pulse trading company told attendees at Crop Week in Saskatoon. The pulse sector should be focused on producing food rather than a commodity, said Murad Al-Katib, president and CEO of of Alliance Grain Traders

International news, News

Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

January 27, 2012

Germany’s giant association of farming co-operatives said a decision by BASF to transfer its research into crops with genetically modified organisms from Germany to the U.S. and other countries will be “disastrous for Europe as a location for agricultural industries.” The German chemical company plans to move its biotech unit in Limburgerhof to North Carolina,

Cereals, Crops, News

Manitoba agriculture minister supports the return of CWB assets to producers

By Shannon VanRaes January 27, 2012

If Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) assets are sold, the money should be returned to producers, says Ron Kostyshyn, the province’s newly minted minister of agriculture, food and rural initiatives. “The sacrifice of two cents on a bushel of wheat, historically… was put into some type of investment for the betterment of grain transportation,” he told

Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Edible oil market analyst bullish on global outlook for canola and soybeans

By Daniel Winters January 27, 2012

When filling up their seeders this spring, Canadian farmers should have canola and soybeans coming down the spout, but not sunflowers and flax. That was the advice from Thomas Mielke, executive director of Oil World, a global edible oil market research firm based in Germany. “Unlike 2008, the price decline has been moderate, and there

Cereals, News

Buckwheat snack food impresses at food show

By Lorraine Stevenson January 27, 2012

A new made-in-Manitoba snack food has been named one of the top 12 natural foods at an international gourmet food show in San Francisco. Buckshots, a roasted buckwheat snack, may have vaulted the crop from obscurity to significant new interest, too. Many of the Canadian, American, and global buyers attending the 2012 Winter Fancy Food

Hogs, Livestock, News

F.X. Aherne prizes awarded at the Banff Pork Seminar

January 27, 2012

Garrett Gerbrandt of the Puratone Corporation in Niverville is one of three pork industry innovators honoured with the F.X. Aherne prize for innovative pork production, presented at the 2012 Banff Pork Seminar, held Jan. 17-20. Gerbrandt received the award for his invention of unique, livestock-friendly loading plates for finishing farms, which are used throughout the

News

Closing gender gap seen key in food security fight

By Nigel Hunt January 27, 2012

Apolicy aimed at ensuring future security of food supplies must centre around the world’s 500 million smallholder producers, many of whom are women who farm less than two hectares of land, a leading United Nations official said Dec. 14. “Unless they are at the centre of the future strategies for food security, we will not

International news, News

Qatar’s next big purchase: a farming sector

By Martina Fuchs January 24, 2012

Qatar’s energy resources have given it one of the world’s highest per capita incomes, a futuristic urban skyline and enough clout to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. But its wealth may not be enough for the arid state to achieve an even more ambitious goal: becoming largely self-sufficient in food. Like other oil-rich, water-poor

International news, News

EU looking to put the brakes on subsidy gravy train

By Nigel Hunt January 24, 2012

British farmers will receive smaller subsidies in coming years, U.K. Farming Minister Jim Paice said, adding he favoured its eventual abolition as global food prices rise. “The single farm payment is going to go down,” said Paice, referring to the expected outcome of negotiations about the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. Senior EU officials

Dairy cattle, News

After the bust, the Irish look back to the land

By Conor Humphries January 24, 2012

After the Celtic Tiger died, Anthony Slattery quit his job as an accountant and bought some cows. With food and drinks exports rising by close to a billion euros a year and food firms among the best performers on Ireland’s bruised stock market, agriculture is one of the few sectors to survive a devastating property

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Tag Archives food

Domestic pulse processing touted

Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

Manitoba agriculture minister supports the return of CWB assets to producers

Edible oil market analyst bullish on global outlook for canola and soybeans

Buckwheat snack food impresses at food show

F.X. Aherne prizes awarded at the Banff Pork Seminar

Closing gender gap seen key in food security fight

Qatar’s next big purchase: a farming sector

EU looking to put the brakes on subsidy gravy train

After the bust, the Irish look back to the land

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