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Product Of Canada Should Be Really Canadian, Miller Says

By Alex Binkley February 24, 2011

Conservative MP Larry Miller is offering a simple fix for the debate over how much domestic content there should be in food labelled Product of Canada. To be eligible to use the label, food products should be 100 per cent Canadian with exemptions allowed for processed or packaged foods that include sugar, spices and other

Livestock

Food Price Rises Bring Risk Of New Riots

By Patrick Worsnip February 24, 2011

France’s agriculture minister warned the United Nations Feb. 18 that food riots like those of three years ago could break out around the world because of steep rises in food prices. Bruno Le Maire was addressing the General Assembly after the UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported earlier this month that its food price index

News

Project Helps Keep Farmers On Their Land

By Natasha Tersigni February 24, 2011

As investors around the world rush to claim farmland in the wartorn, politically unstable country of Sudan, a Minnedosa man is working on a project that helps the Sudanese people farm it themselves. In the process, Ray Baloun is connecting people across Canada who share an interest in farming. Baloun, who works as a grain

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Feb. 24, 2011

By Reuters February 24, 2011

Correction:The building on the Reimer farm now housing Manitoba’s new model fish operation near Warren was in the past occasionally used for chicken rearing, but was most recently used to store farm machinery. A story in our Feb. 17 issue identified the facility as a former chicken barn. – Staff Food rights:India continues to face

Opinion

Hold The Thin Green Line

February 24, 2011

The following is an excerpt of an opinion piece prepared by former U.S. army general Wesley Clark for theKansasCityStar. A former presidential candidate, Rhodes scholar and graduate of West Point Military Academy, General Clark now serves as co-chairman of Growth Energy. When the United States rationed food during the Second World War so citizens and

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 24, 2011

February 24, 2011

Regarding the story “All producers have a role in welfare image,” in the Feb. 17Manitoba Co-operator,I agree with the succinct differentiation provided by the executive director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council, Crystal MacKay. This is exactly the message that I have been trying to get across. All animal activists have been painted with the

News

Redistributing Phosphorus Would Eliminate Feared Shortages: Study

By Ron Friesen February 24, 2011

Fears of a global shortage of phosphate fertilizer could be allayed if phosphorus use were distributed more evenly throughout the world, according to new research. Reducing phosphorus (P) fertilizer applications in some regions and increasing them in others would create an adequate balance for everyone, according to a recently published paper by a McGill University

News, Pulses

Made In Manitoba Energy Bar Boosted By Lentil Ingredient

By Lorraine Stevenson February 24, 2011

Theresa Le Sliworsky needed lots of energy to sustain her through busy days of raising a young family, working full time and training as an endurance triathlete. To keep her energy up, she’d eat sport performance bars, but she was often aghast by how much sugar, fat and preservatives were in them. Many didn’t taste

News

Rolling Up The Rim To A Better Business

By Natasha Tersigni February 24, 2011

What does a guy who sells coffee and doughnuts know about farming? Very little. But that didn’t prevent Ron Buist, the former marketing director for Canada’s favourite coffee house from delivering an intriguing message to farmers at the 2011 Manitoba Special Crops Symposium. The marketing guru behind Tim Hortons “Roll Up the Rim to Win”

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Profit-Taking Hammers Canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 24, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts saw a roller-coaster of a week during the period ended Feb. 18, as the bottom finally fell out of the market and participants took profits after the steady rise over the past few months. However, after four straight days of large declines, values stabilized for a day, bounced higher and

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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Product Of Canada Should Be Really Canadian, Miller Says

Project Helps Keep Farmers On Their Land

In Brief… – for Feb. 24, 2011

Hold The Thin Green Line

Letters – for Feb. 24, 2011

Redistributing Phosphorus Would Eliminate Feared Shortages: Study

Made In Manitoba Energy Bar Boosted By Lentil Ingredient

Rolling Up The Rim To A Better Business

Profit-Taking Hammers Canola

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