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Agropur to shut Montreal-area milk plant

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Quebec dairy co-operative Agropur plans to shut a Montreal-area fluid milk processing plant which it says has aged out of service. The company said Tuesday it will close its milk plant in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, which today employs 67 full-time and 27 “temporary” staff, by late May next year. “Considering the age and condition of the building […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Pitting supply management against U.S. subsidies seen as ‘unfair’

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — How will Canada’s supply management system stack up against America’s domestic supports if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes to fruition? It’s a question that hasn’t been answered, say some experts from Canada’s farming institutions. “It would be completely unfair if we have to compete with lower prices, because those lower prices are […] Read more
Martin de Groot
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

When being organic isn’t enough

Their consumers don’t just want organic, says Martin de Groot. They want animal welfare, cow comfort, energy self-sufficiency… and they want to see it all in action

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Reading Time: 5 minutes With the milk from their 60-cow, mostly Holstein herd, Martin de Groot, his wife Ineke Booy and their family make their Mapleton’s Organic line of ice creams and fresh and frozen yoghurts in their on-farm dairy at Moorefield, Ont., shipping their winter surplus through Harmony Organic Dairy Products. What they sell is much more, however, […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Dairy farmers worry Trans-Pacific trade deal could hurt

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s powerful dairy industry on Friday expressed concern it could suffer if talks to create a Pacific trade treaty open up heavily protected Canadian markets to more foreign competition. Some of the 12 nations taking part in negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want Canada to start dismantling a system known […] Read more
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, shown here speaking Thursday in Quebec City, said it’s “essential” for Canada to be in on a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. (Jason Ransom photo courtesy PMO)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada must be part of TPP, will defend farmers: Harper

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Canada must join a proposed Pacific trade pact but will strive to protect farmers, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday, referring to foreign pressure to scrap tariffs that protect the dairy industry. Some of the 12 nations taking part in talks on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want Canada to start dismantling […] Read more
Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich (l) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. (Government.ru)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Russia to extend ban on Western food imports to early 2016

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Moscow | Reuters — Russia plans to extend a ban on Western food imports for six months starting from early August, after the European Union extended its own sanctions against Moscow, Russian officials said Monday. European Union foreign ministers extended economic sanctions against Russia until Jan. 31 on Monday, keeping up pressure on Moscow to […] Read more
Skim milk powder. (PelchGroup.com)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets

High-fat dairy demand leaving Ont. skim milk homeless

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Strong demand for high-butterfat dairy products, soft demand for fluid milk and maxed-out capacity to make skim milk powder have led Ontario’s dairy farmers in recent weeks to dump surplus skim milk in lagoons. A letter to producers last Friday from Dairy Farmers of Ontario board chairman Ralph Dietrich, intended to “put to rest the […] Read more
(FDA.gov via Flickr)
Canola, Corn, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. FDA to cut trans fats from foods

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington/New York | Reuters –– The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of foods, from microwave popcorn to frozen pizza, saying they raise the risk of heart disease. Under new FDA regulations, partially hydrogenated oils, which have been shown […] Read more
(VealFarm.com)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Quebec to halt ASRA for veal sector

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Quebec’s farm finance and funding agency plans to remove the veal sector from the province’s ASRA income stabilization program starting next year. La Financiere agricole du Quebec (FADQ) announced Friday that its board had agreed to end ASRA (Assurance stabilisation des revenus agricoles) coverage for Quebec’s milk-fed veal calf operations, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Affected producers, after that […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Western states to get US$110M in drought aid

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Washington | Reuters — The White House said Friday it would spend an additional US$110 million to help farmers and communities in western states hit hard by drought and wildfires. The drought has affected a third of the western United States, and President Barack Obama was slated to discuss it with western governors in a […] Read more

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