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Recent Audit Uncovers Problems

Data integrity is key to the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency s efforts, but a recent audit found major problems. If we are going to rely on this information to market cattle internationally, we have to know that the information we have is correct, said CCIA chair Darcy Eddleston. A consultant recently found 1.2 million errors
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Farmers Turn To The Web To Burnish Image

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October is a busy month for Kansas farmer Darin Grimm. With 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans to harvest, the third-generation family farmer is running a combine nearly dawn to dusk. But he still makes time to tweet. Whether it s touting the benefits of a new fertilizer, sharing photos of a newborn calf, debating
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U.S. Farmers Want Easier Access To Credit

The U.S. farm sector is booming with soaring land values, record-high crop prices and record farm income. For all that, farmers face stricter loan standards than a few years ago, small-farm activists say. They say lending practices, toughened nationwide after the 2008-09 recession, are now so strict they snare creditworthy growers. When they surveyed farm
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MAFRI Extension Takes On A Whole New Mandate

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When the Manitoba Agriculture Department in late 2004 announced a major reorganization to its extension service, some predicted the demise of farm extension in the province. After all, the signs weren’t good in the rest of the country. A number of provinces, especially Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario, were cent ral izing, downs izing and, in
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Getting Local Food Into Cafeterias

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AManitoba project is looking for ways to get more locally grown foods served in institutions such as schools, universities, hospitals and other places where cafeterias potentially feed thousands of people on a daily basis. Over the past year, the Manitoba Farm to Cafeteria project has been exploring how to seize the market opportunities these larger
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Investors Try New Tactic With African Agriculture

Africa has long been a target for wealthy philanthropists who donate money in a fight against the continent’s poverty, disease epidemics and food shortages. Now, taking a cue from the non-profit world, profit-hungry investors are eyeing Africa in a new way, putting a charitable spin on their pursuit of double-digit returns. Whether it’s making loans
Livestock

CCIA Call Centre Hours Changed

The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) has adjusted call centre customer service hours effective Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 due to a low volume of calls. The new call centre hours will be Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Customer support for the Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS) can be
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Local Food Activists Urged To Seek Common Cause With Farmers

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The modern warehouse-on- wheels food distribution system, with its just-in-time delivery from producers to processors, and finally to retailers, works just fine. But there is a dark side. Not only is it totally dependent on a smoothly functioning economy and uninterrupted supplies of fossil fuel for powering every link in the chain, it is also
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MP Proposes National Food Day

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Farmers should be as much a part of Thanksgiving as family gatherings and turkey dinners, says NDP MP Malcolm Allen who wants the Friday before the holiday to be known as National Local Food Day. Allen, the party’s food safety critic, presented a bill to the Commons Oct. 7 to authorize the change. It was
Livestock

CCIA Adds Online User Support Feature – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Anew online “Resource Centre” including a user guide, templates and tools for information upload, frequently asked questions (FAQs), software resources and feedback channels is the latest feature of the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency website. The Resource Centre is much like a roadmap to the CCIA’s Canadian Livestock Tracking System, or CLTS, CCIA chairman Darcy Eddleston

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