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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

Livestock

U.S. Says Its Policy Not To Blame

February 10, 2011

U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Feb. 3 it was “unfair” to blame U.S. monetary policy for pushing up inflationary pressures in emerging market economies. Some analysts have blamed the fed’s quantitative easing for flooding the global economy with money and helping to drive prices for food and other commodities higher. “It’s entirely unfair

News, Poultry

Doha Nearly Dead, Ritz Concedes

By Alex Binkley February 10, 2011

The Doha round of international trade negotiations has passed its “best before” date and it would make more sense for countries to salvage the progress made during 10 years of negotiations, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “I don’t see a groundswell of support for the latest efforts to reach a wide-ranging agreement,” Ritz said at

News

Farmers To Celebrate Food Freedom Day

By Cfa Release February 10, 2011

Canadian farm groups will celebrate Food Freedom Day Sat. , Feb. 12, marking the calendar date by which the average Canadian will have earned enough to pay the entire year’s grocery bill. “Canadian farmers are proud of their role in providing high-quality food produced to top-level food safety, environmental, and animal-welfare standards,” said CFA president

News

Bee Facts

February 10, 2011

Pollinators – such as bees, butterflies and bats – are responsible for the continued existence of more than 70 per cent of the world’s flowering plant population. From the production of hybrid canola seed in southern Alberta to the pollination of blueberries in the Maritimes and British Columbia, honeybees are the primary managed pollinator for

Cereals, News

Saudi Arabia To Import More Wheat

By Asma Al Sharif February 10, 2011

Saudi Arabia plans to import around two million tonnes of wheat in 2011 like last year and will boost imports to three million tonnes after 2016 as it ends local production, a source at the grains authority said Feb. 2. The top OPEC oil exporter has emerged as a major wheat buyer to feed its

News

Somalia Faces Worst Drought In Five Years

By Katy Migiro February 10, 2011

Somalia is entering its worst drought in five years and aid agencies are unable to feed the majority of people in need, a senior United Nations humanitarian official said Jan. 28. Al Shabaab rebels, who profess loyalty to al-Qaida, have refused to allow food aid to be distributed in southern and central Somalia, which they

News

Gulf Arab Governments Tackle Higher Food Prices

By Asma Al Sharif February 10, 2011

Countries in North Africa and the Middle East are urgently seeking ways to soften the blow of surging food prices for their citizens, alarmed by protests against authoritarian rulers from Algeria to Yemen. Unprecedented demonstrations have erupted around the region, triggered by events last month in Tunisia where President Zine al- Abidine Ben Ali was

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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High Grain Prices Won’t Last Forever

Pilot Projects Set For Interprovincial Meat Trade

U.S. Says Its Policy Not To Blame

Doha Nearly Dead, Ritz Concedes

Farmers To Celebrate Food Freedom Day

Bee Facts

Saudi Arabia To Import More Wheat

Somalia Faces Worst Drought In Five Years

Gulf Arab Governments Tackle Higher Food Prices

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