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Renewable Fuels Generate Economic Benefits: Study

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“It validates the commitment we made to Canadians.” – GORDON QUAIATTINI, CRFA Anew study for Canada’s renewable fuels industry has found biofuel production contributes major benefits to the nation’s economy. Canada receives a $2-billion-net annual economic gain from the production of biofuels, says the study done for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association. Biofuel (made from
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CFIA Gets A Chief Food Safety Officer

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The Canadian government is creating a position of chief food safety officer and named Brian Evans, currently executive vice-president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to the post effective June 28. Evans will remain chief veterinary officer. The May 25 announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper also said that George Da Pont, currently commissioner
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Red Tape Hurts Farm Competitiveness

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Aparl iamentary committee recommends major changes to federal regulations that disadvantage Canada’s farmers against their global competitors. If implemented, the recommendations in a recently tabled House of Commons agriculture committee report could go a long way toward dealing with farmers’ complaints that government fees and red tape make them uncompetitive in the marketplace. In all,
Crops, Oilseeds

New Soybean Could Cut Into High-Stability Canola Oil Markets

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“The story of canola is it has always been able to keep one step ahead of soybeans.” – David Dzisiak High-oleic canola oil, most of it from Canada, has dominated the growing North American demand for healthier, non-trans fat, deep-frying oils, but American soybeans are fighting back. Last month the United States Department of Agriculture
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Africa Needs “Green Revolution” For Food Security

Sub-Saharan Africa needs a “Green Revolution” investing in agricultural technology to boost food security after decades of underinvestment, a United Nations agency said May 19. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report that technology and innovation must be targeted at the needs of Africa’s millions of smallholder farmers and reflect
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Gulf Farmland Search Switches To Richer Countries

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Gulf nations seeking farmland for food security have shifted their focus to East Europe and Australia after a buying spree in the developing world as they look for land that comes with less political and financial risk. The Gulf is one of the world’s biggest food-importing regions. It stepped up efforts to buy and lease
Livestock

FMD Outbreaks Under Control

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Japan and South Korea are controlling outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in animals and there is no particular risk of an international crisis, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said. OIE director general Bernard Vallat said both countries had applied appropriate measures to control the outbreaks and OIE did not see
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In Brief… – for May. 27, 2010

Another barn fire: An empty chicken barn in the Steinbach area went up in flames May 19. Steinbach RCMP says it received an early-morning call and arrived at the scene south of the city to find the barn fully engulfed in flames. The fire resulted in the total loss of the barn, that had an
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White House Garden Changing Attitudes

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“In the single year since the groundbreaking, Mrs. Obama has caused a dramatic paradigm shift.” – EDDIE GEHMAN KOHAN When the first lady broke ground for a garden on the south lawn of the White House last spring, it was front-page news in the New York Times and Washington Post. Michelle Obama planted the first

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