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Mood In Grains Cautiously Upbeat

By Don Bousquet March 5, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Feb. 27 mainly lower on sluggish demand. Canola saw moderate declines despite the fact that the U. S. soy complex was higher and the Canadian

News

CCA Demands WTO Challenge To COOL Restarted

By Ron Friesen March 5, 2009

“This creates a whole new uncertainty.” – TRAVIS TOEWS, CCA Canada’s agriculture minister said Feb. 25 he sees no reason at this time to revive a trade challenge against the United States based on an early assessment of its application of new meat-labelling rules. “Right now, they’ve gone with what we’re asking for,” Gerry Ritz

News

Food Price Spike Tests Trade Faith

By Roberta Rampton March 5, 2009

The recent shift toward rising food prices has shaken the confidence of developing countries in counting on trade to feed their hungry, and sparked a move toward protectionism, an OECD official said on Feb. 26. “The last 20 years, the movement was toward opening markets, and trade liberalization, and less government intervention in agricultural markets.

Livestock

Pig Organs make 46 ill in China

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 26, 2009

Forty-six people in China’s southern province of Guangdong have suffered food poisoning after eating pig organs that contained an animal feed additive, the official Xinhua news agency said Feb. 19. All those who fell sick had eaten pig organs, said Wang Guobin, an official with the Guangzhou Municipal Public Health Bureau. Initial investigations showed the

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

U. S. Dairy Farms In Crisis As Milk Prices Turn Sour

By Karl Plume February 26, 2009

“When 50 per cent of your total cost doubles then the bottom line suffers severely.” – CALIFORNIA DAIRYMAN JOHN FISCALINI Illinois farmer Linnea Kooistra expects to keep her 250-cow dairy farm afloat despite a rising tide of red ink caused by a collapse in milk prices, but other U. S. dairy farmers may be forced

Crops, News

Universe In A Clump Of Dirt

By Daniel Winters February 26, 2009

“If you build it, they will come.” – KRIS NICHOLS Uproot a plant in healthy soil, and you’ll see tiny pellets clinging to the roots. To most people, that’s just dirt. But to farmers in the know, those hard little clumps represent whole towns and cities of soil biota that work together night and day

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Two Moms Launch Healthy Pea Snack

By Lorraine Stevenson February 19, 2009

“We know that pulses are a very, very healthy food.” – MARGARET HUGHES, CO-OWNER AND SALES MANAGER WI TH BEST COOKING PULSES When the French voyageurs made their arduous journeys across this country’s lakes and rivers, they relied on dried, yellow peas to keep them paddling 14 hours a day. The thick, hearty pea soup

Livestock, Other livestock

Rare Breeds Plans AGM

By Daniel Winters February 19, 2009

“We’re in the right place at the right time. There’s a growing number of people who are interested in the quality of their food.” – PAM HEATH Interest in obscure breeds of livestock, abandoned in past decades amid the push towards ever-larger farms and highly specialized production agriculture, is making a comeback. Local membership in

Livestock

Glen Nicoll’s Manitoba Roundup – for Feb. 19, 2009

February 19, 2009

In response to producers who tracked me down, we’ l l be endeavouring to get you the price breakdowns you desire and get back at the Manitoba Roundup. The professional opinion is that I’m not up to 14-hour days bouncing down the road. So instead of plugging in the truck I’ll be plugging into live

Hogs, News

Prairie Orchard eyes Chinese market

By Lorraine Stevenson February 12, 2009

The folks at Max Pro Feed Ltd., were watching with interest as consumers were beginning to snatch up omega-3-enriched eggs and other foods containing the beneficial fatty acid a few years ago. They wondered whether consumers would go for omega-3-enriched meat too. If so, how could it be produced? And was this an opportunity for

Daily Network News

Conservative MP introduces bill to speed approvals of seeds, fertilizers

ICE Weekly: More to canola price gains than Middle East war

CBOT Weekly: U.S. trade monitoring crops, weather

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