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Liberals Step Up Gun Registry Pressure – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Alex Binkley September 16, 2010

With the Commons heading toward a Sept. 22 shootout over Conservative plans to scrap the long-gun registry, the Liberals are stepping up the pressure to reform it instead. Liberal MP Frank Valeriote of Guelph, one of the party’s leading MPs on the Commons agriculture committee, didn’t mince words objecting to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unbending

Opinion

Doha Talks At Dead End, Trade Expert Says – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Alex Binkley August 19, 2010

The Doha round of WTO negotiations are kept alive through pretence because no one wants to admit they’re as good as dead, says trade expert Peter Clark. A longtime Doha doubter, whose predictions have proved remarkably accurate, Clark has released a 49-page gloomy diagnosis about the state of the Doha round that was supposed to

Opinion

Time to change attitudes

July 22, 2010

I’m actually not sure where to start with all the comments that went through my mind as I read Dr. Terry Whiting’s perspective in “Social movements not always scientific” (Manitoba Co-operator July 15). I’ll make my first comment about his first sentence which was “what do you do if people have concerns about agriculture that

Crops, Livestock, News

Flood Aid From Ag Ministers’ Meeting?

By Allan Dawson July 8, 2010

“We’re not arguing about whether or not (there’s a problem) it’s how to deal with it.” – IAN WISHART It seems no one is quibbling with the scale of the disaster of soaked, unseeded fields and drowned crops in Western Canada this year. The ongoing debate right now is how best to respond. Ian Wishart,

Crops

Colombia Free Trade Deal A Plus

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 1, 2010

Aggressive support from farmers and farm organizations helped push legislation formalizing the Canada-Columbia free trade agreement through the Senate, Grain Growers of Canada says in a release. “Our message of the need for market access has resonated in Ottawa. Our members were represented at committee by real farmers, and we had many meetings to build

News

Railways Don’t Want More Regulation

By Alex Binkley June 24, 2010

The rebounding North American economy is boosting the rail sector as can be seen in the first-quarter profits most railways posted this year but the carriers still have a long way to roll before they reach their potential, industry representatives say. “The indicators for 2010 are optimistic,” says John Gray, vice-president of policy and economics

Cereals, News

Speedy Passage Urged For Colombia Trade Deal

By Alex Binkley June 24, 2010

Farm groups are turning their attention to the Senate in hopes of getting legislation approving a free trade deal with Colombia passed. The bill languished in the Commons for months as the NDP and Bloc Quebecois tried to stop its passage over concerns about attacks on trade unionists and reformers in the South American country.

Crops, Oilseeds

Oil Spill Helps Biofuel Image

By Christine Stebbins June 17, 2010

Renewable fuels like corn-based ethanol will get a boost as the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico feeds worries by Americans about long-term dependence on oil, a top U. S. private agricultural economist said on June 8. “The spill has heightened the concern about our dependence on fossil fuels so that quite naturally

News, Oilseeds

U. S. House Votes To Revive Biodiesel Tax Credit

By Charles Abbott June 3, 2010

The U. S. House voted May 28 to revive the $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax credit for this year as part of passing a mammoth jobs bill. The bill now goes to the Senate, which is in recess until June 7, for a potential final vote. The biodiesel credit expired at the end of 2009. The revived

News

U. S. Farm Subsidy Debate Rekindled

By Charles Abbott May 6, 2010

The U. S. farm program should be refined but does not need to be radically rewritten to replace crop supports with revenue guarantees or to make rural economic development the centrepiece, a key senator says. Saxby Chambl iss of Georgia, the Republican leader on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said he hoped “that we don’t talk

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

Prairie forecast: Plenty more chances for snow over Holidays

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