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Get Korean Trade Deal Done, Farm Groups Urge

By Alex Binkley March 17, 2011

Canadian pork farmers and meat processors will be shut out of the lucrative Korean market before long unless Canada makes a free trade agreement with the Asian nation a priority. Negotiations on such a deal began in 2004 but have been on hold since 2008, apparently over concerns of Canadian automakers, representatives of the Canadian

Dairy cattle, Livestock

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By Ron Friesen March 17, 2011

emember your mother telling you to eat slowly and not gobble your food? As it turns out, Mom’s advice applies to calves as well as kids. Dairy hei fer calves are healthier if taught not to gulp down grain, according to research at the University of Guelph. Researchers found mixing grain with forage in a

Beef cattle, Livestock

BIXS Data System Gets Millions In Federal Funding

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 17, 2011

The information side of the beef business is getting nearly $8 million from the federal government. The largest chunk of cash, $5.3 million, will be used to help farms, feedlots and packing plants update their information technology systems to ensure they remain compatible with the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS). BIXS is a beef information exchange

News

Putin Pledges Support For Farmers

By Gleb Bryanski March 17, 2011

Premier Vladimir Putin has pledged lavish new subsidies to Russian farmers as he seeks their support in an election year amid fears another poor harvest would trigger new food price shocks. Drought killed about a third of Russia’s grain crop last year, pushing up inflation and denting the popularity of Putin’s United Russia party, which

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Old Cookbooks Interesting, Not Always Accurate

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 17, 2011

As I sorted through my cookbook col lect ion recently, I came upon one I had purchased at a museum. An Army Wife’s Cookbookwas filled with recipes and home remedies. From the book, I learned how to take care of a gunpowder burn with linseed oil and lime. (I hope I never need to use

Opinion

Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

March 10, 2011

On a sunny, sub-zero day 20 or so years ago, the great-grandson of a Kansas homesteader related one of the most important lessons passed on to him by his family’s boom-bust-boom generations of dryland farming. “My grandfather,” he offered, “taught us that it’s not the choices you make in the bad times that usually cause

Crops

U.S. Ethanol Policy Roundly Criticized

March 10, 2011

If the United States reduced the amount of corn required for its ethanol requirements by just one per cent, it would double Zimbabwe’s entire annual corn consumption and save American taxpayers $50 million a year. Bill Lapp, a U.S. market analyst, tossed those statistics out at the annual GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg last week to

Cereals, Crops

Research And Development Seen As Key To Solving World Food Crisis

March 10, 2011

World agriculture needs a major research and development initiative to reverse declining crop production and avoid a global food crisis, says an international food policy expert. Agricultural output has slowed in the last 20 years – an alarming trend, given a growing world population and recent riots in various countries sparked by rising food prices,

News

“Rent A Kitchen” Idea Touted At Growing Local

March 10, 2011

Packing their own farm-grown flax into 1.6-kg pails for sales to local stores didn’t require a lot of processing infrastructure, but it did require some. That’s when St. Pierre farmer Murielle Bugera turned to her community’ a museum kitchen – a provincially inspected facility – to complete her packaging and labelling. It saved her money

Crops, Oilseeds

Potential Fantastic For Flax, Boosters Say

March 10, 2011

Flax, it seems, is the forgotten crop. Canadian acreage is declining and when farmers do grow the blue-flowered oilseed, it’s often the last crop to be planted, usually with fewer inputs than the rest. But boosters see lots of potential for flax because of its health attributes and mega-star endorsements. “When you have Oprah calling

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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Get Korean Trade Deal Done, Farm Groups Urge

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BIXS Data System Gets Millions In Federal Funding

Putin Pledges Support For Farmers

Old Cookbooks Interesting, Not Always Accurate

Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

U.S. Ethanol Policy Roundly Criticized

Research And Development Seen As Key To Solving World Food Crisis

“Rent A Kitchen” Idea Touted At Growing Local

Potential Fantastic For Flax, Boosters Say

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