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USDA deputy secretary Krysta Harden talks to girls in a food and agriculture class at Peekskill Middle School in Peekskill, N.Y. Harden visited the school’s garden where students proudly showed off their crops in the school’s High Tunnel. Peekskill Middle School installed a High Tunnel in the school’s garden thanks to the High Tunnels in Schools Grant. Girls are not only good at food technology, Harden says, they can also have an edge because of their sharp entrepreneurial skills and their drive to make a difference.
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A million women farmers

To get big numbers of women farmers, the U.S. looks to small farms

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Reading Time: 6 minutes According to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, the number of female-operated farms in the U.S. more than doubled between 1982 and 2012. On top of that, if you add in the number of women who participate on male-led or jointly led farms as primary and secondary operators, the U.S. now has nearly one million female […] Read more
The WTO’s director-general, Roberto Azevedo, and Kenya’s cabinet secretary for foreign affairs and international trade, Amina Mohamed, close the fifth day of the WTO ministerial conference in Nairobi. (Photo courtesy Admedia Communication, copyright WTO)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

WTO backs agricultural reforms, split on Doha

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Nairobi | Reuters — The World Trade Organization reached deals on agricultural export subsidies, food aid and other issues on Saturday, capping a ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital where rich and poor countries had been split over the path of trade reform. Members said the Nairobi deal had drawn a line under years of […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. Congress repeals COOL on beef, pork

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both approved a repeal of the government’s six-year old mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) laws on beef and pork. Tucked into an omnibus appropriations bill put before Congress Friday, the repeal shuts the door on a major irritant in North American trade relations and is expected to curb […] Read more
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Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Que. banks, funds boost stake in Agropur

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Agropur is getting a second nine-figure cash injection from a group of Quebec institutional investors and banks, further backing the major Quebec dairy farmer co-operative’s expansion plans against an uncertain domestic market. The investor group, led by Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ), said Thursday it will put up $300 million, on top […] Read more
Despite his lawyer’s advice, Jeff Kooyman discusses the MFA video, and the steps they have taken in its wake.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

After the animal abuse video went viral

What’s it like for a Canadian farmer at the centre of an international animal rights media frenzy?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes A year and a half later, Jeff Kooyman is still disturbed by a video produced on his farm, Chilliwack Cattle Sales, by the advocacy group Mercy for Animals. Broadcast during prime time on CTV national news on June 2014, the video let the whole world see young workers shouting “f***ing bitch” at cows, kicking one […] Read more
Skim milk powder. (PelchGroup.com)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Dairy support price gets boost starting Feb. 1

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s dairy farmers can expect a two per cent bump in their overall revenue from industrial milk sales starting Feb. 1 next year. Citing dairy producers’ increased costs of production, the Canadian Dairy Commission on Wednesday announced its support price of butter will increase effective Feb. 1 to $7.7815 per kilogram, from $7.4046 currently. Its […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Clock ticking to avoid North American food fight

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters –– The North American spat pitting Canada and Mexico against the U.S. over meat labels has sown confusion among producers and shippers in all three countries, with a trade war potentially just weeks away. The World Trade Organization on Monday authorized Canada and Mexico, the biggest markets for exported U.S. goods, to […] Read more

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