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Editorial: More to TPP than milk and eggs

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and what a deal could mean for Canadian producers

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement now under negotiation involves 12 of the world’s largest economies, and has been described as “NAFTA on steroids.” What’s holding it up? Canadian dairy farmers. Or so you’d think about reading some of the national and international media coverage. Some of it made us think of the coverage of
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Larger Economic Issues Weigh On Canola

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column Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform resumed a downward price trend during the week ended Oct. 21. Losses were attributed to the price declines experienced by CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybeans and outright liquidation by speculative fund accounts. Elevator company hedge selling was also evident, especially when canola showed signs
Crops

Fertilizer Industry Reviewing Ammonium Nitrate Rules

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The fertilizer industry wants to audit the systems in place for ensuring ammonium nitrate fertilizer is only purchased by legitimate users, according to Dave Finlayson, vice-president of science and risk management at the Canadian Fertilizer Institute. The review by security professionals is expected to produce some answers or ideas by late summer, he added in
Opinion

Your Door Is Ajar

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DAVE BEDARD It’s not been much fun in retail these past few years for those selling fertilizer to farmers. If you had to restock when prices skyrocketed, then deal with outraged farmers who declined to pay those prices, you’d start to wonder how the next growing season would pan out. If you were then stuck
News

Input Dealers Want Funds To Secure Fertilizer

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While an Ontario man who allegedly showed no ID to buy a trailerload of ammonium nitrate fertilizer “posed no apparent threat,” the public threat from such products needs public funding to manage at the retail level, according to a national dealers’ group. Two days after a police search located the man in question, the Canadian
Cereals, Opinion

Is This “Modernization?”

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR While appointments to the Canadian Wheat Board have traditionally been at a reasonable arm’s length from politics (at least until the director appointments were hijacked by the current government), it’s always been understood that things are different at the Canadian Grain Commission. Appointments have almost always been given to those with
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

USDA Report Improves Market Outlook

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l seed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended April 3 mixed, with canola up and barley down in an active week. Canola was lifted by gains in the U. S. soy
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Research, Trade Top Priorities For Farmers

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“There just simply isn’t the return in cereals and pulses under our system to spur private research at the levels necessary.” – DOUG ROBERTSON, ALBERTA GRAIN FARMER AND GGC PRESIDENT More basic agriculture research and improved trade deals will go a long way toward helping Canadian farmers be competitive internationally, farm groups say. Grain Growers
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Crunch time again at WTO

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he and Trade Minister Stockwell Day are ready to fly to Geneva for a ministerial meeting this month aimed at reaching an agreement on a new international trade deal. “We’re ready to go,” the minister said in an interview when asked about reports that WTO negotiations during the last few

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