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The Best Farm Support Program

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Scholarly types come up with different numbers when they set about quantifying the returns on public investment in agricultural research, but they are all, without fail, extraordinarily positive. University of Guelph agricultural economist George Brinkman summed it well in a 2004 paper by saying agricultural research is one of the highest payback uses for public
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Vilsack Focusing Attention On Rural America

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“We’ve got to do something different.” – TOM VILSACK “Agriculture… is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness.” – THOMAS JEFFERSON, Third President Of The United States WASHINGTON, D. C. Rural America needs attention, not just for rural America’s sake, but for the entire
Livestock

EU Lawmakers Vote To Ban Food From Cloned Animals

The environment committee of the European Parliament voted May 4 to exclude from the EU market food obtained from cloned animals because of health and safety concerns. The lawmakers rejected a proposal by the European Commission, and backed by member states, to include food produced from cloned animals in a list of approved food stuffs
Livestock, Oilseeds

Industry Accused Of Overstating EU Feed Import Crisis

The disruption to animal feed imports caused by Europe’s “zero-tolerance” policy on unapproved genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been exaggerated by industry, Friends of the Earth said May 4. Last summer, several shipments of soy from the United States were blocked from entering Europe after authorities detected traces of unauthorized GM maize in the consignments,
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Liberals Propose National Food Policy

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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has served up a five-point National Food Policy with entrees for both consumers and farmers on the menu. Speaking on a farm just north of Toronto in late April, Ignatieff said a Liberal government would work toward making more homegrown food available, while pulling the farm sector back from the financial
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Deere Eyes $500-Million Investment In Russia Farm Boom

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Deere and Co. , the world’s largest farm equipment maker, is on track to spend $500 million building new plants in Russia and offering credit lines and other services to farmers within the next six years. Deere chairman and chief executive Samuel Allen said April 27 that Russia, the European Union, South America and Asia
Opinion

Facts, Figures And Fools With Money

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What diesel fuel is to tractors, facts are to journalists. Diesel is expensive; facts, for the most part, are free. Moreover, facts are all over. So if they’re just about everywhere and usually free, why aren’t more facts used? Oftentimes, if the facts cannot be bent to support the political side of an argument then
Cereals, Opinion

The Urbanization Of Farm Policy

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It has often been difficult over the past decade or so to find the word “farmer” or “agriculture” in the avalanche of policy statements put out by federal parties during election campaigns. Oh sure, there’s been the hot-button issues such as the Canadian Wheat Board, listeria and more money for hard-pressed farmers, but getting the
News, Poultry

HSUS Targets Laying Hen Abuses

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“I don’t think anyone can see this footage and feel good about this production system.” – WAYNE PACELLE An undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States of major U. S. egg producers showed “rampant abuse” of hens, which the animal rights group said April 7 could prompt more consumers to embrace “cage-free”
Cereals, Crops

Grain Industry Worried By New Toxin Limits

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Canada’s grain industry wants safer food, but it doubts pending regulations to restrict exposure to ochratoxin A (OTA), a suspected carcinogen in grains and other foods, will be effective. In the meantime, those regulations threaten to add costs throughout the pipeline from farmer to food processor. “There really needs to be a supply chain solution,”

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