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Ritz confident C-18 will win legal nod

By Daniel Winters January 24, 2012

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz declared the battle for “marketing freedom” all but won in front of a friendly crowd at the 42nd annual Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association convention. Noting that Bill C-18, the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, received royal assent on Dec. 15, Ritz cited the “supremacy of Parliament” as meaning that

Cereals, Crops

Legislation To End CWB Monopoly Being Tabled This Week

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly was to be tabled in the House of Commons Oct. 18, but the board is fighting back and is urging farmers to fight too. (Agriculture) Minister Ritz and Prime Minister Harper would like you to believe that this is a done deal, wheat board chair Allen

News

Commodities Traders Face Trial Over Bribery Charges

October 20, 2011

BRUSSELS/REUTERS The court case has begun against a subsidiary of the world s largest diversified commodities trader after it was charged with corruption for providing lavish gifts to an EU official in exchange for information. The case against the Glencore subsidiary and other companies follows a seven-year investigation into whether an official with the European

News, Oilseeds

Patent Infringement Trial Reduces Farmers’ Penalties

By Allan Dawson September 29, 2011

Farmers who breach patent law should expect to pay a price, but an Ontario lawyer says the price some farmers have been paying goes beyond what the law stipulates. I would say the public and farmers out there are being somewhat deliberately misinformed about what is a fair settlement, said Kurtis Andrews, a lawyer with

News, Oilseeds

Monsanto Wins Lawsuit Against Indiana Soybean Farmer

By Carey Gillam September 29, 2011

Monsanto Co. , the world s largest seed company, has prevailed in another lawsuit against a U.S. farmer, earning a ruling from a Federal Appeals Court that protects Monsanto s interests even when its patented seeds are sold in a mix of undifferentiated commodity seeds. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 15, 2011

September 15, 2011

One small step towards marketing freedom Farmers will finally be allowed the marketing freedom they have long been denied. The monopoly powers of the CWB will soon be revoked and it will either be an optional marketing entity available to farmers or it will cease to exist. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has held fast to

Cereals, News

Cwb Vote Issue Heads To Court

By Allan Dawson June 30, 2011

Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) is asking the Federal Court to block the federal government from abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) statutory single marketing authority for wheat and barley. The FCWB, a coalition of farmers and other Canadians in support of a democratic, farmer-controlled CWB, was to apply for a judicial review

Hogs, Livestock

China Urges Tougher Punishments For Food Safety Crimes

June 9, 2011

China’s courts have been ordered to increase the severity of punishments for food safety crimes, including capital punishment for cases that lead to fatalities, Xinhua news agency reported. The court’s directive appeared to be the latest move to regain public confidence after a series of food safety scandals, including the most serious recent case in

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Processors, Dairy Producers Butt Heads Again

By Alex Binkley March 17, 2011

They’ve promised to try to get along better but processors and dairy producers look set to get into another scrap over the amount of milk in a dairy product. Saputo and Kraft Canada went to court when Ottawa imposed new compositional standards for cheese, which required greater use of milk, in 2008. In February, the

Hogs, News

In Brief… – for Mar. 10, 2011

By Reuters March 10, 2011

Cash for clunkers:Russia will spend an extra four billion rubles from this year’s budget to subsidize farm equipment leasing and may look into a “cash for clunkers” scheme to boost tractor purchases, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. “I hope it will help reap a good harvest and stabilize the situation with food prices,” he told

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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