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Cfia Gets New President

By Alex Binkley July 14, 2011

George Da Pont, a seasoned federal bureaucrat, has been named president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He replaces Carol Swan who has retired. Da Pont became executive vice-president of the agency a year ago with the expectation that he would move into the top job eventually. With CFIA under repeated attack by its main

Crops

Subsidies, New Methods Lift Zambian Farm Yields

By Ed Stoddard July 14, 2011

Peasant farmer Joseph Mhlanga proudly points to the pile of maize or corncobs in his modest house: a good crop for him that is part of Zambia’s bumper harvest this year. “This is my maize from this year. I plan to start shelling it soon,” said Mhlanga, a spry 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who farms a

Crops

UN Expert Urges Huge Investment In Small Farmers

By David Brough July 14, 2011

Asenior United Nations food expert appealed June 20 for a massive investment in smallholder farming to end poverty and hunger. In an interview before the G20 meeting of farm ministers, Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the statistics division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said local poverty was the root cause of hunger, not

Country Crossroads

Recipe Swap – for Jul. 14, 2011

By Lorraine Stevenson July 14, 2011

It was dessert for breakfast. We’d gathered for a late-morning breakfast with family at the Whytewold Emporium at Whytewold on Lake Winnipeg, having heard the quaint lakeside eatery was famous for its all-day crepes and wood-fired pizzas. The reputation is well deserved. I had a Canadian Maple crepe, a plump, wallet-sized creation garnished with bananas

Country Crossroads

Vegetables For Healthy Eyesight

By Julie Garden-Robinson July 14, 2011

What vegetables promote healthy eyesight? You might think of carrots and their association with eye health. While carrots certainly are a colourful, healthful option linked to reducing our risk of night blindness, leafy greens more often are linked to vision protection. Among the most debilitating eye diseases are glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetic

Crops, Opinion

Simple Solutions To The Food Challenge

By John Morriss July 7, 2011

Last month a milestone was marked in the history of world agriculture when the bovine disease rinderpest was officially declared eradicated. Though unknown in North America, rinderpest or “cattle plague” has been a devastating killer of cattle and wildlife for millennia in Europe, Africa and Asia. After smallpox, it’s only the second disease in history

Opinion

Co-Operator Reporter Says Goodbye

By Ron Friesen July 7, 2011

One of my first assignments after arriving at theCo-operatorin July 1988 was a story about Manitoba joining the national beef tripartite stabilization program. It was the biggest thing to hit the province’s cattle industry in years and we were on deadline. I remember sitting at my desk staring at a blank computer screen with the

News

Time For An Agri-Food Plan

By Lorraine Stevenson July 7, 2011

Canadians appear to agree it’s time to head down a new path in the agri-food sector, but how to set forth and who’ll take the lead remain key questions. In February the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) releasedCanada’s Agri-Food Destination: A New Strategic Approacha report, pointing out rough terrain ahead if, as a leading world

News

Growing Project Volunteers Persevere Despite Weather Setbacks

By Lorraine Stevenson July 7, 2011

Even as June’s end neared, volunteers with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank Growing Project near Arborg weren’t throwing in the towel. “We’ll do our best and we’ll grow something,” said Arborg farmer Lorne Floyd. Floyd is one of about two dozen volunteers in the Interlake who’ve seeded and harvested a Growing Project along Hwy. 326 for

Dairy cattle, News

No Room For Expansion

July 7, 2011

There is little chance to expand U.S. crop plantings even if land reserves are freed in the face of tight grain supplies, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said May 26. During a Senate hearing, Vilsack warned against cuts in agricultural research programs despite U.S. budget pressures and encouraged worldwide adoption of technology such as genetically engineered

Daily Network News

Argentina’s “mega” wheat crop to hit record level, exchange says

Canada eyes fresh start in trade talks with India, says minister Sidhu

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

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