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U. S. Reviews Farm Program

September 10, 2009

The Obama administration will talk to stakeholders about cotton subsidies now that Brazil can apply sanctions to U. S. products in a long-running trade dispute, the U. S. Trade Representative’s office said Aug. 31. A new World Trade Organization decision against U. S. subsidies for cotton – the farm program the rest of the world

Opinion

Participate, Or Be Dictated To

September 3, 2009

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Two news items you may have missed from the U. S.: Item 1: Carbon dioxide is a pollutant. No, this isn’t some off-the-cuff statement from a tree hugger. It’s the law, according to a ruling in a case that went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court in 2007.

News

Water Worries Cloud Future For U. S. Biofuel

By Carey Gillam July 2, 2009

“We really have to ask ourselves, do we want to be driving with renewable fuels or with gasoline made from petroleum resources?” – BRENT ERICKSON, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT, BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION It’s corn-planting time in the U. S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather – and hoping

Hogs, News

U. S. Processors Defiant On COOL

By Ron Friesen May 28, 2009

“It depends on how the political winds blow in terms of how strong he’ll try to push it.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC U. S. food companies are refusing to follow a federal government request to increase country-of-origin labelling (COOL) measures on meat, in a possible showdown with the Obama administration. A recent Canadian delegation to

Beef cattle, Opinion

Protecting The Canadian Brand

May 14, 2009

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Stéphane Dion may not exactly be a barrel of laughs, but the much-abused former leader of the Liberal party may soon get the last one. That will be when the U. S. imposes a carbon tax – which in some form, is probably what it’s going to do – and Canada,

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Mandatory U. S. Animal ID On Its Way, Beef Sector Protests

By Christopher Doering April 16, 2009

The U. S. livestock industry could soon be facing a mandatory tracking system for animals, but the proposal is being vigorously opposed by beef producers. A voluntary animal-tracking system, known as traceback, has been in place since shortly after the country’s first case of mad cow disease in December 2003, but some members of Congress

Livestock

Grocer Calls For Heightened Food Inspections

By Christopher Doering April 9, 2009

The U. S. Agriculture Department should expand its risk-based inspection system to focus on products neglected by the Food and Drug Administration to help stop a rash of massive food recalls, an official from a U. S. grocery chain said on April 2. The U. S. food supply system is under fire after a series

News

U. S. Senate Panel Rejects $250,000 Farm Subsidy Cap

April 2, 2009

The Senate Budget Committee rejected a proposed $250,000-a-year limit on farm subsidies March 26 in a rebuff to reformers and the Obama administration. President Barack Obama proposed a $250,000 payment cap in his fiscal 2010 budget plan. It was part of a package of farm cuts estimated to save nearly $16 billion over 10 years

Opinion

Big Oil Invests In Ethanol

By Alan Guebert March 26, 2009

If it’s even partly true that you’re known by the company you keep, then the farmer-loved ethanol business got a lot less lovable Feb. 8 when Valero Energy Corp., the largest crude oil refiner in North America, announced its intent to purchase five of the choicest plants owned by mega-biofuel maker, mega-bankrupt VeraSun Energy. Should

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

U. S. Dairy Farmers Want Subsidies

March 26, 2009

Adairy group on March 18 asked the Obama administration to respond to a plunge in milk prices by subsidizing U. S. dairy exports and buying dairy products for donation to poor Americans. The National Milk Producers Federation says the average cost to produce milk in January exceeded the price of milk by 25 per cent.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

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