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Canada’s dairy farmers cling to protections as Trump demands concessions

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel June 11, 2018

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers want trade negotiators to keep their hands off the protected sector in increasingly contentious talks with the United States, however loudly U.S. President Donald Trump demands greater access, an executive with Canada’s biggest dairy lobby group said Monday. The sector, worth $21 billion in farm and processed dairy

Ontario ag minister downed in Tories’ election win

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 8, 2018

The Ontario Liberals’ minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs is among the election-night casualties as the province’s Progressive Conservatives get set to form a majority government. As of midnight CT Friday, Doug Ford’s Tories were elected or leading in 76 of 124 ridings, followed by Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats in 40 and Kathleen Wynne’s

Ford’s 2018 Super Duty King Ranch Crew Cab pickup. (Ford.com)

Ford scrambles to restart truck production after fire at supplier

By GFM Network News May 10, 2018

Detroit | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is working with a key supplier to shift some parts production from Michigan to Ontario, after a fire and subsequent parts shortages forced the automaker to halt manufacturing of its highly profitable full-size pickups, according to sources familiar with the companies’ plans. The supplier, Chinese-owned Meridian Magnesium Products,

Crops

Ontario backs Mondelez’s Toronto bakery expansion

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 19, 2018

One of the world’s biggest snack food companies is up for an eight-figure investment from the Ontario government to boost production at its Toronto plant. The province on Monday announced the Mondelez Canada bakery in East York will get up to $22.6 million from the Jobs and Prosperity Fund, by way of that program’s Food

A controlled atmosphere stunning system for chicken processing. (Marel.com)

Livestock

Cargill to replace chicken plant’s stunning system

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 14, 2018

Agrifood firm Cargill has budgeted $22 million to swap out an electric stunning system at its London, Ont. chicken processing plant in favour of a new controlled atmospheric stunning (CAS) system. The CAS system, expected to be up and running this spring, “will help reduce handling stress with chickens, resulting in a higher-quality, more consistent

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa announces the province’s next horseracing sector funding agreement March 23 at Hamilton’s Flamboro Downs. (OntarioRacing.com)

Livestock

Ontario ponies up for two decades of horseracing

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2018

The Ontario government has put its next funding plan for the province’s horseracing sector on a substantially longer track. The provincial government on Friday announced a funding agreement providing the sector with $105 million a year for 19 years starting April 1, 2019, to replace the five-year, $100 million-per-year Horse Racing Partnership Funding Program in

(Lindsay Irrigation video screengrab via YouTube)

Ontario power utilities offer farm water pump rebate

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2018

Ontario farmers buying certain types of high-efficiency water pumping systems for irrigation, horticulture or stock watering could now be up for rebates. Hydro One and Niagara Peninsula Energy (NPEI) on Friday announced the AgriPump rebate program, which the two electricity utilities described as the first plan of its kind in the province. For farmer customers

Weather

Community to ‘transform’ Guelph’s Kemptville ag campus

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 19, 2018

The home municipality for Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) former Kemptville campus is set to remake the site as an “education and community hub.” The municipality of North Grenville, which includes Kemptville, about 40 km south of Ottawa, closed a deal in December to purchase the Kemptville ag campus, with the official transfer due to take

Markets

Glacier FarmMedia launches Farmtario

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 7, 2018

Canada’s largest publisher of farm magazines and newspapers has cultivated a new source of news for farmers in Ontario. Launched Wednesday at the London Farm Show, Farmtario will be a biweekly print publication starting April 30. Its website, Farmtario.com, is available immediately. “We see a bright future for Ontario agriculture and we’re proud to announce

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Nestle to spread out at London ice cream plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 2, 2018

A multi-phase overhaul at Nestle Canada’s southwestern Ontario ice cream factory is moving further ahead with a plant expansion. The company’s London, Ont. ice cream plant, which has operated since 1966 and supplies brands such as Haagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Parlour and Skinny Cow for all of Canada, is in the midst of a four-phase, $51.5 million

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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