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Japan to boost animal feed grain reserves by 44 per cent to smooth supply shocks

By Risa Maeda February 13, 2013

Reuters / Japan plans to boost its animal feed reserves by 44 per cent in the fiscal year starting in April, the Farm Ministry said Jan. 29, as the world’s top corn buyer seeks to smooth supply shocks while it diversifies purchases away from the United States. The move could support prices by further tightening global

Crops, News

Analyst predicts loonie to stay strong but not soar in 2013

By Dwayne Klassen January 17, 2013

The Canadian dollar should stay strong and level in the coming year, predicts a Toronto-based currency analyst. The loonie may see a slight rise in the coming weeks before levelling off, says Camilla Sutton, a currency strategist with Scotia Capital. “While the currency markets have been driven recently by the fiscal cliff situation in the

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Trade expert calls supply management “awful, awful” policy

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Supply management is bad public policy but won’t end until Canadian consumers demand it, says Michael Hart, professor of trade policy at Carleton University. “It seems to be one of the few areas where the consumer seems to be prepared to accept the status quo,” Hart said at the recent Fields on Wheels conference. The

Livestock

U.S. government, health groups sound alarm on antibiotics

By Julie Steenhuysen November 29, 2012

Reuters / The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a coalition of 25 health-care organizations are joining forces to fight the overuse of antibiotics in people and livestock in a bid to curb the rise of drug-resistant “super bugs.” Without action, patients could soon face a time when antibiotics are powerless to treat

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Chicago’s soybean complex pulls canola downward

By Dwayne Klassen November 29, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada platform suffered some major downward price action during the week ended Nov. 16, with the sharp losses in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex and favourable weather for the planting and development of soybean crops in Brazil and Argentina tied to the declines. The unloading of

News

CGC fees to jump 44 per cent

By Allan Dawson November 15, 2012

Despite shaving $20 million in costs  the CGC proposes a big increase  in user fees so Ottawa no  longer has to pay the bill

In its government-ordered drive to cost recovery, the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) wants the grain industry to pay an extra $16.7 million a year in user fees effective Aug. 2013. That’s a 44 per cent increase amounting to an extra $1.38 a tonne on total CGC-inspected Canadian grain exports. The figures are contained in the

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Not all cattlemen happy with JBS deal

By Sheri Monk November 15, 2012

R-CALF USA says it’s not happy with the news JBS USA will operate and perhaps purchase XL Foods, now reopened after several weeks of being shut down due to E. coli contamination. It wasn’t just XL’s Brooks plant on the table — the deal comes with a plant in Calgary and two cow-killing plants in

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Canada beef warning broadened to new products

October 10, 2012

Reuters / A public warning in Canada about beef possibly tainted with E. coli has been updated to include additional products. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) released a list of dozens of products Sept. 30 made from beef voluntarily recalled by XL Foods, whose plant in Brooks, Alberta, was temporarily shut by the agency

Crops, News

Biggest U.S. farm lender says it will stand by drought-hit customers

By Christine Stebbins September 22, 2012

Reuters – The Farm Credit System, the largest single lender to U.S. agriculture, said on Sept. 12 it would meet the borrowing needs of rural America and stand by its customers challenged by the worst drought in more than half a century. “The Farm Credit System remains well positioned to meet the borrowing needs of

News

Wyoming wolves to lose Endangered Species Act protection

By Laura Zuckerman September 17, 2012

Grey wolves in Wyoming, the last still federally protected in the northern Rockies, will lose endangered species status at the end of September, opening them to unregulated killing in most of the state, the U.S. government said Aug. 31. The planned delisting of Wyoming’s estimated 350 wolves caps a steady progression of diminishing federal safeguards

Daily Network News

‘Significant’ Canadian GDP slide expected in 2026, FCC says

Gene edited, PRRS resistant pig approved in Canada

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher

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