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FCC honours five women leaders in agriculture

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The Rosemary Davis Award recipients 
receive an all-expense-paid trip to a Boston leadership conference

Winnipeg geneticist and professor, Silvie Cloutier is among five women to receive the 2013 Rosemary Davis award from Farm Credit Canada (FCC). The award recognizes outstanding Canadian women for their leadership and commitment to the Canadian agriculture and agri-food industry. Cloutier’s research has been used in plant-breeding programs to protect crops from disease, improve production
Livestock, News

Harper keen to strike EU trade deal

ottawa / reuters / There are still obstacles to a Canada-European Union free trade deal, say the prime ministers of Canada and France, but both said an agreement could smooth the way for a similar EU deal with Washington. The initial end-2011 timeline to complete the Canada-EU deal has slipped, and a decision from Europe
Cereals, Crops

Tax credit for research checkoffs

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The federal government annually provides a Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit to producers offering them a tax credit on their checkoff investments. The tax credit percentage for producers who contributed to the Wheat and Barley Checkoff, administered by the Western Grains Research Foundation in 2012 is 85 per cent for wheat and
News

Farmers read to students

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Farmers and agricultural industry representatives are in classrooms in schools across the country this week as part of Canadian Agriculture Literacy Week. The second annual event March 3 to 10, which is delivered in Manitoba by Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba, focuses on Grade 3 to 5 students in more than 40 schools in the province.
Livestock, Livestock Markets

Forced government furloughs could cause meat shortages

Reuters / Americans should expect to experience spotty shortages of meat due to furloughs of food inspectors caused by federal budget cuts, but the government will stagger the layoffs to minimize the impact, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Feb. 27. Automatic budget cuts began to take effect March 1 when the nation’s largest employer, the
Opinion

Remembering Eugene Whelan

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Ronald Reagan gets credit for winning the cold war with the former Soviet Union, but Eugene Whelan arguably played a role. Whelan was prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s agriculture minister for 12 years beginning in 1972, except for the nine months Joe Clark’s Progressive Conservatives held office in 1979. He died last week at age 88.
News

MP’s water bill passes

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Ontario MP Larry Miller’s bill to prevent bulk water withdrawals from lakes and rivers along the United States border has passed the Commons unopposed even though the opposition parties said it didn’t go far enough. The NDP and Liberals voted for the amendments to the Transboundary Waters Protection Act even though they want the government
News

FCC accused of overstepping its mandate

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A new report by a leading public policy think-tank accuses Farm Credit Canada and other federal financial Crown corporations of “mission creep” by offering services far beyond their original mandates. The report by the C.D. Howe Institute recommends their authority “should be clearly circumscribed and even rolled back” so private lenders can do more to
Crops, News

Fiscal battles block work on new U.S. farm subsidy bill

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Reuters / Fiscal battles in Congress could prevent lawmakers from writing a new Farm Bill for weeks or months, prolonging disputes over farm subsidy reforms and cuts in food stamps for the poor that together could save up to $35 billion. Agricultural leaders in Congress originally hoped for speedy work on the overdue Farm Bill
News

Europe FTA ignored in Harper government statements

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The year-end target for striking a free trade deal with Europe has come and gone — with no sign of concern from Prime Minister Stephen Harper or his trade minister. Although he talked about several pro-trade initiatives in his year-end statement, Harper made no mention of the Canada-Europe deal and Trade Minister Ed Fast mentioned

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