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Why Don’t The Chinese Eat Canadian Food?

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A big question in the news these days has been whether the Chinese will buy part or all of Saskatchewan’s PotashCorp. Underlying this is the recognition that China has a huge problem coming at it: how to feed itself. With little arable land and a growing middle class – estimated by some to be 700
Beef cattle, Livestock

Scene For BSE Disaster Set In The 1970S

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Industry veteran Charlie Gracey saw it coming. Gracey traces the current beef industry slump back to the 1970s which, in his view, set the stage for the post-BSE downturn. “During the four-year period from 1974 to early 1978, the industry tanked due to exuberant oversupply and huge amounts of equity were lost, particularly in the
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Canadian Provinces Push Ottawa To Block Potash Bid

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PotashCorp’s home province was ratcheting up pressure on the Canadian government to block BHP Billiton’s hostile approach as the Nov. 3 deadline for a decision drew near. Saskatchewan, where fertilizer producer PotashCorp is based, wanted Ottawa to reject the Anglo-American mining giant’s $39-billion offer, the largest takeover bid of 2010. It says a deal would
Crops

Food Security Risk If Crop Biodiversity Lost

Future global food security may be at risk unless greater efforts are made to conserve and use the genetic diversity of cultivated crops and their wild relatives, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. The world’s cereals output needs to rise by one billion tonnes a year by 2050 to feed a population that
Livestock

Feds’ Food Campaign To Focus On “% Daily Value”

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Health Canada and Canada’s biggest food industry association will spearhead a new campaign to educate consumers on the use of prepared foods’ “Nutrition Facts” tables. The federal Health Department and Toronto-based Food and Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC) said Oct. 22 they will roll out a multi-media Nutrition Facts Education Campaign to focus on “increasing
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Buy Manitoba Program Set To Launch In New Year

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Acampaign promot ing Manitoba food is almost ready to launch – just as soon as organizers nail down a definition of local food. “Local means different things to different people,” said Dave Shambrock, executive director of the Manitoba Food Processors Association, who has overseen the stakeholder group designing the Buy Manitoba initiative “From the food
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Manitoba Processor Uses A Direct Sales Approach

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It’s not often a commodity processor from a small southwestern Manitoba community gets to participate in an international trade forum. But Nestibo Agra does. This sunflower processor from Deloraine took part last week in Centrallia, an international business event matching sellers with potential buyers from around the world. At Centrallia, Mike Durand, Nestibo Agra’s sales
Crops

Potato Harvest On The Colony

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Trucks are waiting! Everybody welcome. Thank you!” The crisp message rings from the public address system, inviting colony members to a shift of picking weeds and lumps of dirt out of newly harvested potatoes travelling by conveyor into the shed. “This is a recorded announcement!” one of the young women deadpans. Grabbing gloves and a
Crops

Growing Projects’ Harvests Now Complete For CFGB

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All harvests for Growing Projects in support of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank are now in the bins, with the last of this year’s projects wrapping up Oct. 9 near Thornhill. This fall’s extended warm weather saw a flurry of activity earlier this month, with farmers finding time in the midst of their own harvests to
Crops

Policies Should Favour Land Users

Land purchases by foreign investors in poor countries and the growing use of biofuels are pressuring agricultural farmland and pushing 500 million small farmers towards hunger, a UN envoy said on Oct. 21. Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said the combination of environmental degradation, urbanization and large-scale land

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