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Canada Farmers Earning Less Income In 2009

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Canadian farmers are earning less so far in 2009 as grain prices have slipped and the United States is buying less Canadian livestock, Statistics Canada said Nov. 24. Farm cash receipts, which include crop and livestock revenues plus payments from government programs, dropped 4.2 per cent to $32.8 billion from January through September compared with
Opinion

Not The Time To Neglect Agriculture

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The 34th North American European Union Agricultural Conference, a major forum for discussion on solutions to the world economic crisis affecting farmers, was hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture at Niagara Falls, Ontario this fall. This year, there were representatives from 73 farm organizations from 19 different countries. It is widely agreed that agricultural
Dairy cattle, News

Ethiopia Targets Land For Commercial Farms

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Ethiopia plans to offer three million hectares of land over the next two years for investors to develop large-scale commercial farms, a government official said Nov. 5. Countries in Asia and the Gulf – such as China, India and Saudi Arabia – have rushed to buy farmland abroad to grow crops for their own people
Opinion

Answering The Acres Question

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How much land do you farm? For some reason, it’s socially acceptable to ask a farmer this question. Asking a business person a comparable question about financial capacity or asking a person on a salary or wage about their income level might seem like prying into a personal matter. But, as farmers we tend to
Cereals, Crops, News

In Brief… – for Oct. 1, 2009

Winter wheat shunned: Wet fields and weak prices amid already ample world wheat supplies could spell fewer U. S. winter wheat acres planted this fall. Despite some of the best soil moisture seen in years, many farmers in key U. S. growing areas this week were either still evaluating how much wheat to plant or
Livestock

U. S. Meat, Dairy Prices To Rise In 2010

U. S. hog and dairy prices are forecast to rise in 2010 from their current money-losing levels, but the outlook depends in part on an overall economic recovery, a University of Missouri think-tank said Aug. 18. In a mid-year update, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute lowered its forecasts for farm gate prices for
Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef Cattle Sell-Off In Alberta Eases

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Farmers have slowed the sell-off of beef cattle in Alberta, Canada’s top producing province, as feed supplies improve in the parched Canadian province. Farmer sales to auction marts have levelled off at 16,000 to 16,500 head per week, said Scott McKinnon, market analyst with CanFax. That suggests that recent rain has improved pastures enough that
Opinion

Keep The Prison Farms

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It’s hardly surprising to hear that the six prison farms operated by Corrections Canada across the country collectively cost $4 million annually. Farming is a complex business – one that calls for skills that aren’t necessarily compatible with the skills or training required to successfully operate a prison. A lot of career farmers can’t make
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Hyundai Heavy Buys Russian Farm

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries has acquired a farm in the Russian Far East, a purchase that could test the water for further Asian investment in Russia’s burgeoning agriculture sector. Hyundai Heavy, also the world’s largest shipbuilder, has agreed to pay $6.5 million for a 67.6 per cent stake in Khorol Zerno LLC, which operates
Opinion

A Rural Champion

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A few years back, as the list of rural responsibilities assigned to one cabinet minister in a particular federal government grew longer than could be comfortably stated without pausing to breathe, reporters took to unofficially referring to him as the “minister for everything in between the big cities.” In some ways, it was symbolic of

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