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A Change In Thinking

By Laura Rance-Unger February 17, 2011

Acomprehensive new report released by the Canadian Agri- Food Policy Institute (CAPI) is bound to ruffle a few feathers in farm country. It won’t be the section on increasing Canada’s production and exports, or the parts that say agriculture, food and health policies should be linked. Nor will it be the calls to buy more

Crops, Oilseeds

High Grain Prices Won’t Last Forever

By Allan Dawson February 17, 2011

High grain prices make farmers happy, but they make market analyst Chuck Penner nervous. It’s not that Penner, with LeftField Commodity Research, doesn’t like high prices. His apprehension comes from knowing sometime those prices will fall. When prices last spiked in 2007-08 at close to these levels, they went a bit higher and then fell

News, Pulses

Food Processors Look To Farm Practices

By Lorraine Stevenson February 17, 2011

Canadian farms have sustainability advantages from the climate they produce food in, progressive soil management practices and low water usage, Pulse Canada says. Two new reports have attempted to measure sustainability within agricultural supply chains and how food companies view and value it as a measure of food product quality. The reports, commissioned by Pulse

News

Pilot Projects Set For Interprovincial Meat Trade

By Ron Friesen February 17, 2011

Aseries of test projects allowing provincial abattoirs to sell meat to other provinces could soon go into effect. Nineteen pilot projects to permit interprovincial trading of meat products will soon be launched across Canada, federal and provincial agriculture ministers said last week. The move comes seven months after ministers at their last meeting promised to

Crops

North Korea Confirms Foot-And-Mouth Outbreak

February 17, 2011

North Korea has confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth disease across the country and lodged the outbreak with the UN food agency. South Korean media reported that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would dispatch a team next week to help the reclusive state contain the outbreak. The North’s KCNA state news agency said the most affected

Cereals, Crops

U.S. Producers Boost Major Crop Acreage

February 17, 2011

U.S. farmers will increase plantings of the eight major crops this year by four per cent as high commodity prices encourage growers to replenish low stockpiles, the government said Feb. 14. The U.S. Agriculture Department said farmers will sow 255.3 million acres this year, up 10.1 million acres from 2010, with all major crops seeing

Country Crossroads

Food Diaries Can Promote Weight Loss

By Julie Garden-Robinson February 17, 2011

Keeping a food diary takes a little discipline but can be an eye-opening experience. People often eat much more than they realize. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Then you write down everything you eat, whether it includes M&M’s nabbed from a candy dish, crackers in front of

Livestock, Other livestock

Traceability Funds Allocated

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 17, 2011

The federal government is putting $487,000 towards improving traceability in Canada’s sheep and goat industry. The investment will go to the Canadian Sheep Federation (CSF) and the Canadian National Goat Federation (CNGF) to be used for finalizing the development of a national animal identification and traceability plan, creating various communications products and educating the industry

Livestock

All Producers Have A Role In Welfare Image

By Natasha Tersigni February 17, 2011

Public opinion surveys have shown Manitobans have a lower opinion of agriculture than non-farmers in other provinces, the executive director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council says. “Out of the whole country, Manitoba has the least positive image in agriculture,” Crystal MacKay told her audience at Manitoba Ag Days. In a later interview, MacKay refused

Livestock, Other livestock

More Funds Pledged For Sheep And Goat Tracking

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 17, 2011

Nearly half a million dollars in federal funding has been budgeted to help finalize a national ID and traceability plan for Canada’s sheep and goat sectors. The government on Jan. 31 announced over $487,000 for the Canadian Sheep Federation (CSF) and the Canadian National Goat Federation (CNGF) to set up “various communications products” and educate

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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