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Where’s The Beef (Profits)?

December 17, 2009

Alberta rancher Iain Aitken recently had a cull cow custom processed to highlight the inequity of profit distribution in the beef production chain. The cow that would only have brought $340 at auction yielded $1,233 of hamburger and stew meat when valued at local store prices. Although cull cows are older animals being removed from

Livestock

Farm Leader Slaughters Pig At Market

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 17, 2009

ANew Brunswick director of the National Farmers Union in New Brunswick hauled a pig to town and slaughtered it at a local farmers’ market Dec. 5. Jean-Eudes Chiasson, brought one of his pigs to market in Dieppe, where he set up signs in French, stressing the desperate circumstances now faced by family farmers. He then

Crops

Crop Diversity Key To Food Security

By Allan Dawson December 10, 2009

“There are as many patents for roses and chrysanthemums as there are for the three most important food crops – rice, wheat and maize. What are we to do, feed them chrysanthemums?” – Pat Mooney Pat Mooney, who isn’t known for his optimism, says he finally has some good news. The executive director of the

Cereals, News

Wells Condemns Corporate Seed Power

By Allan Dawson December 3, 2009

Afew very large seed corporations led by Monsanto have too much power over farmers, according to retiring National Farmers Union (NFU) president Stewart Wells. “With the rapid changes the seed companies are making to the system – seed registration, patent protection, seed contracts and inter-company seed agreements – Monsanto and the seed trade will quickly

Cereals, News

Easter Critical Of Leaders For Not Defending Members

By Allan Dawson December 3, 2009

Liberal Agriculture Critic Wayne Easter says the leadership within Canada’s hog and cattle industries isn’t doing enough to defend producers from inadequate government action. “For the life of me I don’t know why the hog and beef industry isn’t standing up for themselves,” the Prince Edward Island MP told the 40th annual meeting of the

Cereals, Crops

National Farmers Union Celebrates 40 Years

By Allan Dawson November 26, 2009

“Structure determines process, process determines results.” – ROY ATKINSON If there’s a constant with the National Farmers Union, it’s consistency. Canada’s only national, voluntary, direct-membership general farm organization, which holds its 40th annual meeting in Ottawa this week, sticks to its principles. “The first person who compromises, loses,” Roy Atkinson, the NFU’s first president, said

Crops, Livestock

What’s Up – for Nov. 26, 2009

November 26, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 21-28 – Canadian Western Agribition, Evraz Place (formerly Regina Exhibition Park), Regina. For more info visit www.agribition.com. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No. 3 annual meeting, 1:30 p. m., University of Manitoba research station, Carman. Nov. 26 – Keystone Agricultural Producers District No.

Cereals, Opinion

Ritz Must Stand Up For Farmers’ Marketing Systems At WTO

By Colleen Ross November 19, 2009

The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Geneva are targeting farmers’ marketing agencies – including supply-management and the Canadian Wheat Board single desk. I predict that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will return home from the current round of negotiations announcing that these so-called “state trading enterprises” are no longer legal under WTO trade rules

Livestock, News, Other livestock

What’s Up – for Nov. 19, 2009

November 19, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 Nov. 19 – Red River Basin Commission public forum on long-term flood solutions, 6:30 p. m. to 8:30 p. m., Legion Hall, 161 Charles St. W., Morris. For more info visit www.redriverbasincommission.org.To submit input on how the 2009 flood impacted you, e-mail [email protected]. Nov. 19 –

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Questions Raised About Monsanto Penalties

By Allan Dawson November 12, 2009

Four Ontario farmers found guilty of stealing Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybean technology are unlikely to find sympathy from fellow farmers who abided by their contracts. But Monsanto’s decision to deny those farmers access to its seed technology for life is raising questions among industry observers concerned about concentration in the marketplace. In 2007, 65 per

Daily Network News

Canadian farmers intend to plant more canola, less wheat in 2026

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CBOT weekly: Planted area in focus

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