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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Cattle And Hog Groups To Lobby Electioneering Candidates

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Improved market access and better business risk management programs top livestock producers’ wish list for the May 2 federal election. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the Canadian Pork Council vow to make trade and BRMs election issues as the campaign gets underway. They also say they will tell politicians that rising input costs and an
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ITAC Says CGC User Fees Should Be Election Issue

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

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

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

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
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Britain Adds Voice To Criticism Of EU GM Crop Plans

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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