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Australia, New Zealand pledge to salvage TPP

By Reuters January 23, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Australia hopes to salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian nations into the agreement in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull his country out of the pact, its trade minister said on Tuesday. New Zealand’s trade minister said ministers from the remaining TPP countries would […] Read more

Cattle amble through fresh snow in northwestern Saskatchewan on Oct. 22, 2016. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Livestock

Saskatchewan taking livestock premises ID mandatory

By Country Guide Staff January 12, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saskatchewan livestock producers wanting to take part in provincial programs will soon have to have a valid premises identification (ID) number. The provincial and federal governments on Thursday announced the new requirement for Saskatchewan producers will take effect “over the coming months.” The province has had a voluntary premises ID (PID) program in place since […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Cargill profit jumps on meat demand, big U.S. crops

By Karl Plume January 10, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill on Tuesday reported a sharply higher adjusted quarterly profit led by strong results from its beef and turkey businesses and robust demand for North American grain and oilseed crops. The privately held company said adjusted operating earnings jumped nearly 80 per cent in the second quarter ended Nov. 30 […] Read more

Boehringer Ingelheim, whose headquarters at Ingelheim, Germany is shown here, has formally brought animal health rival Merial into its own animal health business effective Jan. 1. (Boehringer-Ingelheim.com)

Livestock

Animal pharma firm Merial formally joins Boehringer

By Country Guide Staff January 9, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Global pharma giants Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim have formally sealed their deal to merge Sanofi’s global animal health business, Merial, into Boehringer’s. The two companies last week announced their deal has “successfully closed in most markets” as of Jan. 1. Paris-based Sanofi will get Boehringer’s global consumer health care business plus 4.7 billion euros (C$6.6 […] Read more

Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, shown here at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in March. Global Affairs Canada via YouTube)

General, Reuters

Trudeau to shuffle Dion out of foreign affairs

By David Ljunggren January 9, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters –– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet this week and is set to move Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, who ran into political trouble last year, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. “Dion is out,” said the person, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of […] Read more

A male mallard duck. (Alain Carpentier photo/Wikimedia Commons)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

USDA finds bird flu in Montana wild duck

By Tom Polansek January 9, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday it had detected a type of bird flu in a wild duck in central Montana that appeared to match one of the strains found during an outbreak of the disease in 2014 and 2015 that led to the deaths of millions of chickens. […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy positioning ahead of USDA report

By Dave Sims January 5, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn futures chalked up modest gains on the week ended Wednesday, as slow farmer selling and weakness in the U.S. dollar underpinned the market. March corn ended 11 and a half cents higher from the previous week (all figures US$). It was another volatile stretch for corn, […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Tim’s, Burger King to cut some antibiotics from chicken supply

By Country Guide Staff January 4, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes The parent of fast-food chains Tim Hortons and Burger King plans to end the use of certain medically important antibiotics in its Canadian chicken supply chain in 2018. Restaurant Brands International (RBI) in late December announced the new policy on its website, saying it “will work with our supply chain partners to support and implement […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Fat herds, leaner profits: For China’s pig farmers, New Year feasts bring cold comfort

By Dominique Patton, Hallie Gu December 29, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing/Reuters – With China’s Lunar New Year festivities fast approaching, pig farmers in the world’s biggest pork market have little to cheer. As they fatten herds to meet peak demand, a slump in retail prices and a spike in feed costs are grinding up profits. A wave of imports has squeezed pork retail prices 10 […] Read more

If you never leave the farm, I’m not sure at what point the decision becomes yours instead of Dad’s  or Mom’s.” — Laura Reiter

Crops, Guide Business, Livestock

A better path into farming

The idea used to be that kids should work at an off-farm career before returning to the farm. It’s an idea worth a second look

By Lisa Guenther December 15, 2016

Reading Time: 7 minutes Years ago, the common wisdom was that farm kids should try something else before coming back to the farm, and many parents had two things in mind when they gently nudged their fledgling future farmers from the nest: encouraging them to go to school and try an off-farm career. To start with, farming wasn’t a […] Read more

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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