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ITAC Says CGC User Fees Should Be Election Issue

March 31, 2011

The Inland Terminal Association of Canada (ITAC) says what it calls “massive” price increases proposed for Canadian Grain Commission user fees are ill-conceived and counterproductive, and should be an election issue. ITAC represents 11 inland grain terminal companies that are at least 50 per cent owned by farmers. In a release, ITAC said that recent

Beef cattle, Livestock

South Korea And China Seen Opening Soon For Beef

March 31, 2011

Canada and South Korea are “very, very close” to diplomatically resolving an eight-year-old dispute over Canada’s beef exports, the Canadian agriculture minister said Mar. 23. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said talks have made progress as a decision from a World Trade Organization panel approaches. “We’re hoping we can do something diplomatically,” he said on an

Cereals, News

Ritz Pulls Back From CWB Debate

By Daniel Winters March 24, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says his party “respects the vote” of farmers who back the single desk and suggested there won’t be any attempt to impose dual marketing on the Canadian Wheat Board unless a majority of producers vote for it. “Until farmers make that change, I’m not prepared to work arbitrarily,” said Ritz. “They

News

Tight Money May Mean Cuts To U.S. Farm Bill

March 24, 2011

Congress may push idle cropland back into production or get rid of a $5-billion- a-year subsidy to grain, cotton and soybean farmers when it overhauls U.S. farm law, a House committee chairman said Mar. 16. Lawmakers will have billions of dollars less to spend on the Farm Bill than in 2008, Agriculture Committee chairman Frank

News

Britain Adds Voice To Criticism Of EU GM Crop Plans

By Charlie Dunmore March 24, 2011

Britain has become the latest European Union country to raise serious doubts over proposals to let EU governments decide individually whether to grow or ban genetically modified (GM) crops. Several large EU countries including France, Germany and Spain have already criticized draft legislation tabled by the EU executive in July, which would allow governments to

Crops

Doha Trade Talks Start To Move

February 24, 2011

The long-running Doha trade talks have finally started to move after a constructive week of talks among key powers that grappled with issues of substance, the U.S. envoy to the World Trade Organization said Feb. 17. The comments, by U.S. Ambassador Michael Punke, were one of the strongest signs yet that an intensified push to

Livestock

Animal Welfare Is Of Global Importance

By Alexis Kienlen February 10, 2011

Animal welfare is increasingly on consumers’ radar screens, and is now starting to be seen as a standard of good business, says a University of Calgary animal-welfare specialist. Animal-care standards are being used to differentiate between products and are creating favourable trading opportunities for countries with the best ones, Dr. Ed Pajor told the recent

Hogs, Livestock

COOL Chill Continues For Pork Industry

By Natasha Tersigni February 10, 2011

U.S. country-of-origin labelling laws continue to put a chill on the Manitoba pork industry, the general manager for Manitoba Pork told the Manitoba Swine Seminar. “COOL is a big deal,” Andrew Dickson said. “We had hoped that the export of weanlings into the United States would have tapered off; it is not indicated this has

News, Poultry

Doha Nearly Dead, Ritz Concedes

By Alex Binkley February 10, 2011

The Doha round of international trade negotiations has passed its “best before” date and it would make more sense for countries to salvage the progress made during 10 years of negotiations, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “I don’t see a groundswell of support for the latest efforts to reach a wide-ranging agreement,” Ritz said at

Hogs, News

South Korea’s Recovery From Foot-And-Mouth Slow

By Cho Mee-young February 10, 2011

South Korea’s swine industry could take one or two years to recover from a foot-and-mouth epidemic that has boosted meat purchases by one of the world’s top pork importers. A long-term boost to the country’s pork imports, mainly from the United States, could support U.S. hog futures already at record highs partly on the back

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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