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Farmers and animal welfare advocates understand that if California wins, states with the most progressive animal welfare policies will be able to effectively set national standards...

Comment: U.S. Supreme Court weighs animal welfare issue

California law could have far-reaching implications for hog producers

By David Favre October 25, 2022

Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The U.S. Supreme Court is confronting this challenge in a suit now before it. Pork producers are challenging a law that California voters adopted in 2018

News, Other

Minority farmers sue U.S. government over repealed debt relief program

Policy was to compensate for decades of discriminatory lending practices

By Leah Douglas October 20, 2022

Reuters – Black farmers and other farmers of colour filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. government on Oct. 12, claiming the recent repeal of a debt relief program that targeted them amounts to a breach of contract by the government. The suit comes as the U.S. Department of Agriculture is set to roll

...protein is increasingly being used as a political weapon to fight climate change, not just for nutrition.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Politicizing proteins

Dietary choices are personal, not political, and undue coercion is unacceptable

By Sylvain Charlebois October 19, 2022

During the current election campaign in La Belle Province, one political party recently proposed a protein shift in public cafeterias and institutions by offering a menu made up of 50 per cent plant-based protein meals. In the same vein, the party also suggested that 70 per cent of food products served in public institutions be

Markets, News

U.S. needs to press Mexico on looming biotech corn ban, Vilsack says

By Tom Polansek October 12, 2022

Reuters – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he continues to talk with officials in Mexico about that country’s looming ban on genetically modified (GM) corn, adding that it will be important to get clarity on the issue in 2023. A decree issued by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in late 2020 would phase

News

U.S. plans rule to protect livestock farmers from company retaliation

By Tom Polansek October 12, 2022

Reuters – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing regulations to prevent meat companies from retaliating against livestock and poultry farmers who speak out on practices such as price-fixing. The USDA also said it would work with state attorneys general to investigate anticompetitive practices in the agricultural sector that contribute to inflation. The moves aim

Then Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler at an announcement in 2017.

News, Other

Eichler not seeking re-election

Respected former agriculture minister will serve out remainder of his term

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 4, 2022

Long-time Lakeside MLA Ralph Eichler says he won’t seek re-election in 2023. The former two-time provincial agriculture minister made the announcement to colleagues on Oct. 4. Eichler was first elected in 2003, and his first term as agriculture minister began after the 2016 election when the Progressive Conservatives formed government. He held the portfolio for

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: Taxes out, subsidies in

Australia and the U.S. are passing major climate bills – without taxing carbon

By Ian A. Mackenzie September 28, 2022

At last, there’s action on climate change. The United States recently passed its largest climate bill ever and Australia is set to usher a 43 per cent emissions target into law, although the Greens will try to amend the bill so the climate impacts of new gas and coal projects are considered. Good news, right?

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Drought, war, inflation and consumer disconnect

Would the public support farm and food programs if they knew the farm income numbers?

By Alan Guebert September 27, 2022

By almost any measure, 2022 has been a tough year for most. Inflation, war, the growing consequences of climate change and then widening political divide are just a few of the compounding woes we continue to deal with. In the middle of this chaos, however, U.S. farmers received remarkably good news. According to estimates released

“I was personally interested to quantify the concerns I had seen anecdotally in the farm press and elsewhere.” – Greg Dunlop, iFusion.

News

Fertilizer emissions view split on party lines: survey

Farmers generally pessimistic, distrustful of government’s emissions target

By Geralyn Wichers September 23, 2022

Farmers who vote Liberal or NDP are far more likely to think the federal fertilizer emissions reduction target is feasible than farmers who vote Conservative, a recent survey indicates. That meant the majority of survey respondents were pessimistic about the government’s goals, as 77 per cent said they’d vote Conservative. In an Aug. 29 survey,

The Roquette plant in Portage was already well under construction by the time the strategy was announced.

News, Pulses

Province’s protein strategy means playing the long game

Deep industry-academic-producer group connections are priceless, but need sustained effort to bear fruit

By Geralyn Wichers September 22, 2022

This spring, the province proclaimed itself halfway to achieving some key Protein Advantage Strategy goals — namely in investments and job creation — yet the Manitoba Protein Consortium and its sub-groups appear to still be in the planning stages. How does one square the two? While flashy figures of jobs created and investments made are

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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