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GIPSA Rules Could Shrink U.S. Meat Industry

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The U.S. livestock and meat industry could face more than $1 billion in annual losses, and a drop in production if proposed rules for the industry are implemented, according to a study funded by big livestock producers released Nov. 10. Earlier this year, the Agriculture Department’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administrat ion proposed rules
News

Fears Of Resurging U.S. Protectionism Downplayed

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Republican gains in the United States’ recent midterm elections may not be as negative for Canada-U. S. trade as some fear, an American industry analyst says. Historically, Republicans are friendlier to free trade than Democrats. That will likely continue, despite the prevailing recession, said Ron Plain, a University of Missouri livestock-marketing economist. “Our expectation is
News

Federal Officials Watching Container Capacity Issue

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The Canadian Transportation Agency is monitoring container ship capacity for export cargoes, but can’t take any action until someone complains about a lack of capacity, or rate increases. Alex Robertson, a CTA spokesman, said in an interview the agency has been made aware of the problem “and is monitoring the situation.” But it can’t take
News, Oilseeds

U. S. Senate Passes Bill To Extend Biodiesel Credit

The U. S. Senate approved a bill March 10 that includes revival of the $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax credit for this year, which the renewable fuels industry has said is needed to increase output. The overall bill, approved 62 to 36, is a $149-billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks Democrats hope will help spur
Livestock

Carbon Emission Agreements Worry Cattle Producers

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“You want to be harmonized.” – JOHN MASSWOHL, CCA Canada’s cattle producers are waiting nervously to see how international agreements on reducing greenhouse gas emissions will affect their industry. The immediate concern is about what will emerge from the United Nation’s world conference currently underway in Copenhagen. Nearly 200 nations are working toward a political
News

U. S. Congress Approves Landmark Conservation Bill

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The Democratic-led U. S. Congress has given final approval to sweeping land and water conservation legislation that environmental groups praised as one of the most significant in U. S. history. The measure, a package of more than 160 bills, would set aside about two million acres (809,400 hectares) – parks, rivers, streams, desert, forest and
Livestock

Antibiotic Ban On Livestock May Hurt U. S. Food Safety

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A bill that would ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in animals would hurt the health of livestock and poultry while compromising efforts to protect the safety of the country’s food supply, the leader of the largest U. S. farm group said March 24. Bob Stallman, president of the six-million-member American Farm Bureau Federation, said
Hogs, Livestock

Bill Would Ban Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics

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Despite growing public support to ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in food animals, a U. S. representative says efforts to move legislation through Congress this year could be met with resistance. The bill, introduced in the House of Representatives by Louise Slaughter and in the Senate by Edward Kennedy March 17, would ban the
Opinion

Aggies To Obama: No!

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“…if your local butcher put his greasy thumb on the scale in such a clumsy manner, you’d slap him with your chequebook. Congress does it, however, and you hand it your chequebook.” Of the many talents Americans– and especially American politicians – have acquired in the last 25 years, coupling fact with fiction to create
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

“Farmers will be driving Maseratis” and other news

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Nov. 6 higher. Canola prices rallied as farmers virtually turned off the tap and stopped delivering. Traders feel it will take farm gate bids of

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