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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

News

Little Change Predicted For New Growing Forward Programs

By Ron Friesen February 3, 2011

Don’t expect any big changes in farm safety net programs after Canada’s federal-provincial agricultural policy agreement runs out in two years. “More of the same,” is James Rude’s prediction for future business risk management (BRM) programs under a new Growing Forward framework. Growing Forward with its so-called “suite” of BRMs – AgriStability, AgriInvest, AgriInsurance and

Livestock

Canadian Feed Advantage Returns

By Rod Nickel January 27, 2011

Canadian hog farmers look to return to profitability later this year, slowing the pace of herd downsizing as high hog prices outweigh the negative effects of a surging Canadian dollar, industry analysts said Jan. 20. Hog farmers have suffered from several mostly unprofitable years because of high feed costs, a strong dollar and the United

Livestock

Food Price Spike Shows Reform Urgent

By Nigel Hunt January 27, 2011

The current spike in food prices is a repeat of the 2007-08 crisis and indicates urgent reforms are needed to a stressed global agricultural system, John Beddington, the U.K. government’s chief scientist said on Jan. 24. “In 2007-08 everyone said this was just a one-off because we have been looking at price declines for 30

Cereals, News

Grain Rally Less Speculative Than In 2008: Ritz

By Rod Nickel January 27, 2011

The recent rally in grain and oilseed prices is based more on concerns about crop levels than on speculation by investors, Canada’s agriculture minister said Jan. 17. Prices of crops such as wheat, corn, soybeans and canola are at their highest levels in more than 2-1/2 years amid flooding in Australia and dryness in Argentina.

News

U.S. Remains Big-Time Farm Subsidizer

By Alex Binkley December 16, 2010

The United States’ budgetar y deficit hasn’t restrained its support for American farmers, according to trade analyst Peter Clark. In a study funded by the Dairy Farmers of Canada, Clark found programs offered by Washington, as well as by state and local governments, poured more than US$180 billion into farmers’ pockets in 2009. That’s “well

Hogs, News

WTO Arguments In COOL Case Wrap Up

By Ron Friesen December 9, 2010

Canadian livestock groups headed home from Geneva last week expressing confidence about winning a World Trade Organization challenge to the U.S. country-of-origin food labelling rule. Both the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the Canadian Pork Council said they were satisfied Canada presented a WTO dispute panel with a strong case against COOL during the second and

Beef cattle, News

Canada Gets Foot In EU Beef Door

By Ron Friesen December 2, 2010

An agreement giving Canada access to an EU beef import quota could provide a beachhead for increased Canadian beef sales to Europe. Canada will have duty-free access to a 20,000- tonne quota for hormone-free beef exports to the EU which could be worth $10 million a year, according to the Canadian Beef Export Federation. More

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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