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Profitability could be easier to achieve through organic: 2017 COP analysis

Per-acre profitability is markedly different compared to conventional,  provincial estimates of production costs show

By Lorraine Stevenson January 31, 2017

Organic farmers potentially have a shorter road to profitability than their conventional neighbours in 2017, according to provincial costs of production budgets released recently. The most promising crops between the two systems are radically different and there’s marked difference in per-acre profitability, according to numbers shared by a Manitoba Agriculture farm management specialist at an

Organic B.C. blueberries. (Falconglen.ca)

Crops

B.C. foods to require certification for organic claims

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 9, 2016

Agrifood producers in British Columbia who promote their wares using the word “organic” will soon have to show certification to back up the claim. The province on Thursday announced new regulations under its Food and Agricultural Products Classification Act that will allow for the term to be used “only if and when specific certification standards

A healthy soil that’s high in carbon can make your farm a more efficient user of nutrients.

Crops

Carbon key to building resilience on farms

Building soil carbon supports soil biota  and makes for a healthier farming system 

By Laura Rance-Unger November 21, 2016

Farmers often see themselves as feeding the world, but farmers attending the Organic Connections conference here recently were told the first step towards that goal is feeding the “starving and homeless” micro-organisms in their soil. “Your job is to feed them and maintain their habitat,” Kristine Nichols, the chief scientist with the Rodale Institute told

Crops

Switzerland to recognize Canada’s organic wine, processed foods

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 29, 2016

Canada and Switzerland have reached a deal to recognize each other’s organic certifications on wine and “multi-ingredient” foods. The two countries on Thursday announced expansions of their previous organic arrangement, which deems their respective certification systems to be equivalent for organic ag commodities and agrifood products. The amended deal takes effect Saturday (Oct. 1). The

Martin Entz stands in the porch of a tiny clubhouse built so researchers and students could take shelter from the weather at the Glenlea Long-Term Study.

Crops, Local news

Twenty-five years of organics

Canada’s longest-running study of organic crop systems continues to yield new results

By Shannon VanRaes September 22, 2016

Martin Entz points down a road that is more mud than gravel as he drives towards a pint-size field house and a cluster of research plots. “This has become a real destination, it didn’t start out that way, but it certainly is now,” he said, turning towards the Glenlea Long-Term Rotation Study — the oldest

Pipestone-area producer Bryce Lobreau planted 15 acres of Linden butternut squash this summer.

Crops, Local news

Grain growers try their hand at veg production

Canadian Prairie Garden Puree Products Inc., based in Portage la Prairie  has significantly ramped up its organic product line

By Lorraine Stevenson September 22, 2016

Not long ago Bryce Lobreau would have scoffed had someone told him he’d be growing a field of vegetables one day. The Pipestone-area farmer was focused on building up his cattle herd, to become what is now Manitoba’s largest organic livestock feeder, and expanding his land base, now at 5,000 acres of mostly hay land

Frank Moscone, who founded All Seasons Mushrooms in 1997, is selling the B.C. company to Highline Produce for an undisclosed sum. (AllSeasonsMushrooms.com)

Crops

Top Canadian mushroom grower buys westward expansion

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 8, 2016

Canada’s biggest producer of mushrooms has expanded its reach into Western Canada with the purchase of one of the region’s biggest producers. Highline Produce announced Thursday it has bought Langley, B.C.-based organic mushroom producer All Seasons Mushrooms. According to Irish tropical fruit marketing giant Fyffes, which has owned Highline since April, it will pay $59.1

Cereals, Pulses

SunOpta pressured by shareholders after sluggish sales

By GFM Network News July 25, 2016

Reuters – Canadian organic food company SunOpta Inc, already under pressure from U.S. hedge fund Tourbillon Capital Partners LP, is being prodded by a second activist shareholder to explore the sale of all or part of the company, according to sources familiar with the matter. Canadian hedge fund West Face Capital, which pushed SNC-Lavalin to sell

Crops

Danone to buy U.S. organic foods group WhiteWave

By Dominique Vidalon, GFM Network News July 8, 2016

Paris | Reuters — France’s Danone said on Thursday it would double the size of its U.S. business by buying organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods in a deal worth US$12.5 billion, including some $2.1 billion of debt and “other” liabilities. The purchase will help the French company to pursue affluent consumers by adding WhiteWave’s popular

Canadian wines certified as organic in Canada can now be exported to the EU without another layer of certification. (Southbrook.com)

Crops

Wine, foreign content now covered in organic pact with EU

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 7, 2016

The deal that clears Canadian-certified organic food for sale as organic in the European Union is now expanded to cover Canadian-processed products with some imported ingredients — and to include organic wine. Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan on Thursday confirmed the expansion of scope for the EU-Canada Organic Equivalence

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U.S. livestock: Cattle extend gains on improving cash prices, packer demand

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide on China demand doubts

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

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Profitability could be easier to achieve through organic: 2017 COP analysis

B.C. foods to require certification for organic claims

Carbon key to building resilience on farms

Switzerland to recognize Canada’s organic wine, processed foods

Twenty-five years of organics

Grain growers try their hand at veg production

Top Canadian mushroom grower buys westward expansion

SunOpta pressured by shareholders after sluggish sales

Danone to buy U.S. organic foods group WhiteWave

Wine, foreign content now covered in organic pact with EU

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