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Effect Of Climate Change Hard To Predict

By Christine Stebbins August 11, 2011

Climate and food production is a subject that needs more study in coming years but for now even the U.S. Agriculture Department finds it almost impossible to estimate the effects of one on the other. “They are very elaborate models,” said USDA’s chief economist Joseph Glauber. “Take into account all the fundamentals on crops and

News

EU Gets Tough On Dirty Biofuel, Pledges More Action

By Pete Harrison August 11, 2011

Europe’s energy chief announced seven green certification schemes for biofuels last month and promised to tackle the unwanted side-effects of turning food into fuel. Guenther Oettinger said biofuels’ indirect impacts were dangerous for the planet’s carbon balance and food supply. “It is a real concern … particularly in the big producing countries, Southeast Asia and

News

Turkey Recall Raises U.S. Food Safety Questions

By Lisa Baertlein August 11, 2011

U.S. food safety advocates are calling for changes to meat recall rules after regulators took months to warn the public about a salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 80 people and caused one death. Cargill Inc., one of the largest U.S. meat producers, on Aug. 3 recalled roughly 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen

Hogs, Livestock

Innovative Research Addresses Industry Challenges

By Co-operator August 4, 2011

BERNIE PEET Peet on Pigs Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba The Prairie Swine Centre (PSC) plays a unique role in the Canadian pork industry as one of the few establishments carrying out

Crops

This Family Farm Skipped A Generation

By Shannon VanRaes August 4, 2011

Jean-Guy Cote had been awake and working for more than 24 hours by Saturday afternoon, but you wouldn’t have known it by the smile on his face at the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market. The 31-year-old traded the office in for open fields and greenhouses three years ago, after buying his grandfather’s farm near Ste. Agathe.

News, Oilseeds

Canada Looking Good To American Farm Expert

By Allan Dawson August 4, 2011

A leading American scholar came north bearing good news for Canadian farmers – expect a levelling of the farm-subsidy playing field and new opportunities to profitably feed a hungry planet. The Canola Council of Canada brought Robert L. Thompson to its annual meeting here and the scholar from Johns Hopkins University delivered a hopeful message

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Aug. 4, 2011

By Reuters August 4, 2011

CWB lowers new-crop PROs:The Canadian Wheat Board has lowered new-crop wheat, durum and barley values for the upcoming crop year beginning August 1. In setting its latest PROs, the board cited U.S. economic uncertainty; a higher Canadian dollar; increased production in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan; higher Russian wheat sales; improving durum production outlook, and reduced weather

Opinion

Are Higher Commodity Prices The “New Normal?”

By Purdue University Release August 4, 2011

Higher commodity prices might be the rule rather than the exception in the coming years, a Purdue University agricultural economist says. While prices regularly rise and fall, they have trended upward in a way that suggests they’ve reached a plateau, said Mike Boehlje. He attributed much of the price movement to bullish export markets, weather-shortened

Opinion

Update From East Africa: People Pushed To The Brink

August 4, 2011

Canadian Foodgrains Bank executive director Jim Cornelius is on a study leave in Kenya and Ethiopia. Last week he sent this observation from southern Ethiopia, which is experiencing its worst food crisis in 60 years. Unlike the major Ethiopia famines in 1972 and 1984, which were concentrated in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, this food

Grain Markets

Caution Needed As U.S. Farmers Borrow

By Rod Nickel August 4, 2011

A senior U.S. lender is warning farmers to take a cautious approach to borrowing, with crop prices unlikely to maintain their high levels in the coming years and the U.S. debt crisis overhanging the economy. Emboldened by soaring grain and oilseed prices, U.S. farmers have aggressively borrowed to buy land and equipment in recent years,

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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