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Swaledale, a dale (valley) in Yorkshire. (CIA.gov)

England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

By Reuters April 11, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute London | Reuters –– Farmland prices in England fell by 3.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year — the largest quarterly decline since 2008, weighed partly by uncertainty ahead of the June 23 referendum on European Union membership, estate agent Knight Frank said. Knight Frank’s Farmland Index fell to 19,538 pounds (C$35,881) […] Read more

Opinion

Editor’s Note: A new think for supply management

If you haven’t re-thought your own attitudes about supply management, you’ll find it worth reading “Up for business”

By Tom Button April 11, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes I never agree with everything that’s said in our pages. I don’t expect you to always agree either. The trickier issue is when we decide we don’t agree with a story before we read it. So we never get beyond the first paragraph. In this case I ask you to consider reading associate editor Maggie […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Farmland fundamentals potentially bearish: FCC

By Country Guide Staff April 11, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Having tracked more double-digit percentage increases in Canadian farmland prices through 2015, Canada’s federal farm lender sees factors lining up for those values to retreat. Farm Credit Canada’s latest Farmland Values Report, released Monday, logged a 10.1 per cent increase in average farmland values in Canada in 2015, down from a 14.3 per cent rise in […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Investor group launches campaign to curb antibiotic use in food

By Lisa Baertlein, Martinne Geller, Simon Jessop April 11, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Fifty-four large investors managing one trillion pounds (C$1.84 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry used by 10 large U.S. and British restaurant groups. McDonalds and JD Wetherspoon were among those to receive a March 15 letter from institutions including Aviva Investors […] Read more

Eileen Donan Castle, Loch Duich, Scotland. (Cia.gov)

Livestock, Reuters

Scotland moves against wealthy gentry dominating land

By Chris Arsenault April 8, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Rio de Janeiro | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Centuries-old traditions that led to 430 people owning half of Scotland’s privately held land are soon to become history, as local communities seek to double their ownership in the nation known for its rugged landscape, sheep and fine whisky. While inequality of land ownership is more often […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Russian cheese lovers find way around import ban

By Maria Kiselyova, Olga Popova April 7, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Moscow | Reuters — An entrepreneur has found a way to supply Italian parmesan, Dutch Gouda and British Cheddar to cheese connoisseurs in Russia, sidestepping a ban on importing European food that the Kremlin imposed in the fallout from the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s government banned wholesale imports of fresh food products from the European […] Read more

Canadian wines certified as organic in Canada can now be exported to the EU without another layer of certification. (Southbrook.com)

Crops, Grapes

Wine, foreign content now covered in organic pact with EU

By Country Guide Staff April 7, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes The deal that clears Canadian-certified organic food for sale as organic in the European Union is now expanded to cover Canadian-processed products with some imported ingredients — and to include organic wine. Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan on Thursday confirmed the expansion of scope for the EU-Canada Organic Equivalence […] Read more

A hemispheric lens captures a 180-degree image over a silvopasture — a combined forestry and grazing site. (Charlie Feldhake photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Machinery, Weather

Farm emissions research program renewed

By Country Guide Staff April 1, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes A federal program backing research into farm-level technologies and practices that limit farms’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been picked up for another five-year run. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Wednesday announced $27 million is budgeted over the 2016-21 period for the Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program (AGGP). More information about criteria for the renewed program […] Read more

Producers of the CBC TV series Heartland have used Winnipeg-based Cypher Environmental’s Dust Stop on rural roads around the show’s southern Alberta sets to meet municipal requirements for dust abatement. (CypherEnvironmental.com)

General, Machinery

Ad Feature: Dust-control firm takes off-road marketing opportunity

By Jim Bentein March 31, 2016

Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who has driven on a rural road or worked in remote areas where oil, mining, forestry or other development is occurring knows dealing with dust and unstable soils can be annoying — and it can also be a never-ending and costly task. Winnipeg-based Cypher Environmental, run by 34-year-old entrepreneur Todd Burns, has perfected an […] Read more

Crops, Forages, Markets

Roundup Ready alfalfa primed for launch in East

By Country Guide Staff March 30, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes The company with Roundup Ready alfalfa on its launchpad plans a limited rollout of commercial seed into Canada’s six eastern provinces this spring. In a move likely to face opposition from several farm groups across the country, Forage Genetics International (FGI) on Tuesday announced plans for a limited release of commercial HarvXtra alfalfa “in time for […] Read more

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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