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Manitoba’s incumbent agriculture minister Ron Kostyshyn, shown here in March last year, was one of 12 ministers in Premier Greg Selinger’s cabinet defeated in their constituencies in the April 19 election. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Shannon VanRaes)
Crops

Manitoba ag minister unseated in Tory sweep

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Manitoba’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the casualties in Tuesday’s provincial election as Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservatives swept the New Democrats from office. Ron Kostyshyn lost his seat Tuesday to Tory candidate Rick Wowchuk, a schoolteacher from Swan River, by a spread of over 1,500 votes. Kostyshyn, a cow-calf producer from Ethelbert, Man., had been […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Canada’s pulse acres set to rise, wheat likely lower

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Early seeding operations are already underway in parts of Western Canada, and the general sentiment is that farmers are planting more peas and lentils at the expense of most everything else. Statistics Canada releases its first survey-based acreage estimates of the year on Thursday. “I think we’ll see a surge in pulse […] Read more
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Crops, Pulses

Rail interswitching rule seen already paying dividends

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A 2014 federal rule that expanded rail options for some Prairie grain shippers has already made for more competitive freight rates and service and should be renewed this summer, commodity groups say. Pulse Canada, Grain Growers of Canada and Alberta’s crop commissions on Tuesday called on the federal government to extend provisions from the previous […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Scientists take sides: Who’s right about glyphosate?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes London | Reuters — The latest dispute to blow up around the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concerns glyphosate, an ingredient in one of the world’s most widely-used herbicides, Roundup, made by Monsanto. In March 2015, an IARC monograph concluded that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic.” Yet seven months later the European Food Safety […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Doomsday Vault keepers move to lock up more funding

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Oslo | Reuters — The Crop Trust, which runs a so-called doomsday seed vault in the Arctic, secured a doubling of its core funds on Friday and urged the private sector to do more to safeguard commercial food production. Friday’s pledges totalling about $150 million were mainly from governments, including the U.S., Germany and Australia, […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Mars Food tells customers to go easy on the pasta sauce

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Reading Time: 2 minutes London | Reuters –– Mars Food plans to tell customers to eat some of its Dolmio pasta sauces and macaroni cheese only once a week to maintain a balanced diet because of the products’ high levels of salt, sugar or fat. The scheme is part of a larger initiative by the privately owned U.S. food […] Read more
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Livestock

Alberta to shut livestock, grain agencies in budget

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta’s farmers will be spared the new fuel levy planned for next year in the province’s latest budget, but can expect a number of farm agencies to close in the meantime as the province moves to curb spending. Provincial Finance Minister Joe Ceci on Thursday announced a 2016-17 budget with projected revenue of $41.38 billion, […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

European Parliament backs glyphosate, with conditions

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Brussels | Reuters — European politicians advised on Wednesday that the herbicide glyphosate should only be approved for another seven years, rather than the 15 proposed by the EU executive, and should not be used by the general public. Environmental campaigners have demanded a ban on glyphosate, which is used in products such as Monsanto’s […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Global GMO area dips in 2015 in first-ever decline

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The world scaled back biotech crop planting for the first time ever in 2015, led by a decline in the U.S., which has fuelled rapid expansion of genetically modified crops since their commercial launch two decades ago, according to an annual report released Wednesday. The decline was blamed largely on lower crop plantings […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola wary of soybean rally

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower overall during the week ended Wednesday, as the bearish influence of the rising Canadian dollar countered any spillover support from gains in CBOT soybeans. CBOT soybeans climbed sharply over the course of the week. However, the Canadian dollar has also posted solid gains over the […] Read more

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