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A view from a promotional video for Z Tags’ Z2 product line. Sources tell Reuters that Z Tags’ Swiss parent, Datamars, is being prepared for sale. (ZTags.com)
Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Z Tags owner Datamars reportedly up for sale

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Frankfurt | Reuters — Buyout group Columna Capital is preparing its Swiss animal tagging group Datamars for a sale in a potential deal that could be worth as much as over 300 million Swiss francs (C$404 million), two people close to the deal said. The private equity investor has asked investment advisory boutique Evercore to […] Read more
A preserved portion of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany. (CIA.gov)
Livestock, Reuters

German minister expects to win vote on CETA

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Montreal | Reuters –– Germany’s economy minister said Thursday he expected the country’s Social Democrats, a junior partner in the ruling coalition, to vote in favour of a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union at a party meeting on Sept. 19. “We will get a majority vote,” German Vice-Chancellor and Economic Affairs Minister […] Read more
Southwestern Saskatchewan MP David Anderson (centre), shown here last year visiting Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s research facility at Swift Current, is the federal Tories’ new agriculture critic. (DavidAnderson.ca)
Crops

Anderson named federal Tories’ ag critic in shuffle

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A vocal critic of the former Canadian Wheat Board single marketing desk for Prairie wheat and barley is now the lead agriculture critic in Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. David Anderson, the MP for the southwestern Saskatchewan riding of Cypress Hills-Grasslands since 2000, was named Thursday as the Conservatives’ critic for agriculture and agri-food by interim Tory […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Alberta to back new renewable energy capacity

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The Alberta government said Tuesday it will support the creation of 5,000 megawatts of additional renewable energy capacity by 2030 to help achieve goals laid out in its climate plan last year. Shannon Phillips, Minister of Environment and Parks, said Alberta now has a firm target of 30 per cent of electricity used […] Read more
Austria’s Parliament Building, in Vienna. (CIA.gov)
Livestock, Reuters

Austrian government split on opposition to CETA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Vienna | Reuters –– Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern’s opposition to a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada was countered by fervent praise for the deal from his deputy at a special parliamentary session on the issue on Wednesday. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada, negotiations for which have finished, […] Read more
(Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

TPP study sees net ‘neutral’ effect on dairy sector

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Reading Time: 4 minutes An economic impact study on Canada’s participation in a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal finds losses in Canada’s dairy sector would be “offset” by gains for dairy processors from cheaper dairy imports. The study, prepared for the federal government by its Office of the Chief Economist and released Friday, notes Canada has offered expanded access […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

California first state to promise overtime to farmworkers

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sacramento | Reuters — California will become the first U.S. state to require farmers to pay overtime to field workers and fruit pickers under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. The bill would phase in overtime pay for farmworkers from 2019 to 2022. In an industry where a workweek during the harvest […] Read more
Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, shown here at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in March. Global Affairs Canada via YouTube)
Livestock, Reuters

Canada working toward EU trade agreement in October

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Toronto | Reuters –– Canada is working toward signing a new trade agreement with the European Union in October, federal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday. “We’re working hard for it to be the year when CETA, the Canada-EU trade agreement, is signed. We’re working towards signing in October and ratification early next year,” she […] Read more
Cara’s deal for the Original Joe’s chains includes 66 restaurants under the Original Joe’s brand name, such as this site in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Livestock

Cara to buy control of Original Joe’s chains

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chain restaurant firm Cara Operations is set to buy a bigger presence in Canada’s West, with a deal for control of the Original Joe’s, State + Main, and Elephant + Castle pub-style restaurant chains. Cara, whose other chains in North America include Swiss Chalet and Harvey’s, announced last week it will pay $93 million for […] Read more
Pacific Ocean surface temperature anomalies, in degrees Celsius, for the seven-day period centred on Aug. 31, 2016. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
Livestock, Reuters, Weather

U.S. agency reduces outlook for La Nina in 2016-17

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Reading Time: < 1 minute New York | Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster reduced its outlook on Thursday for La Nina conditions to develop during the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter of 2016-17, saying neutral conditions were more likely. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, said in a monthly forecast there was […] Read more

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