Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — Left for dead back in the summer, the World Trade Organization’s struggling Doha round is slowly being prodded back to life through a series of informal consultations in Geneva — and Canadian agriculture groups welcome the news. Since the beginning of October, Ambassador Crawford Falconer, chair of the WTO’s agricultural committee, […] Read more
Ag groups encouraged as Doha talks resume
USW to seek charges against PotashCorp
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — The United Steelworkers (USW) union says it’s proceeding with charges of bargaining in bad faith and unfair labour practices against Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. The charges, brought forward under the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act, relate to a letter sent by PotashCorp to striking employees at three Saskatchewan mines in early October […] Read more
No talks planned in PotashCorp strike
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Workers at three PotashCorp potash mines in Saskatchewan continue to strike with no plans between company and union officials to return to the bargaining table. Limited production from the largest of the affected mines continues in the meantime, the Saskatoon-based fertilizer company says. Nearly 490 workers have been on strike since […] Read more
Sow cull falls short of target: CPC
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — The Canadian Pork Council’s first-ever breeding swine cull program will fall short of its target to reduce the Canadian swine breeding herd by 10 per cent, equivalent to roughly 150,000 sows. However, a spokesperson for the council said it’s not disappointed about having missed that amount. Under the Cull Breeding Swine […] Read more
Dion’s revisions don’t silence “Green Shift” critics
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Resource News International) — After drawing heavy criticism from a variety of Canadian industries, Liberal leader Stephane Dion revised his party’s controversial environmental plan. However, sources within the Canadian agriculture and trucking industries say the revisions still do not address their concerns about the plan. The cornerstone of Dion’s environmental proposal, dubbed the “Green Shift,” […] Read more
PotashCorp workers plan to strike “until we win”
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Resource News International) — The workers at three Saskatchewan mines owned by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. have been striking since Aug. 7, but the union representing the workers said they are prepared to strike “until we win.” “We are prepared to strike until we win. We are prepared to strike one day longer than […] Read more
Financial “crunch time” looms for farmers: FCC
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — While a lot of money was required to get this year’s crop into the ground, a representative from Farm Credit Canada said he fears the real effect of higher input costs has yet to be felt. “To my knowledge there has been an increase but the bigger bang is coming next […] Read more
Ongoing strike disrupts PotashCorp production
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Workers at three Saskatchewan potash mines owned by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) continue to strike and the union and the company don’t appear any closer to reaching an agreement. And production of industrial potash has been disrupted as a result of the labour dispute. On August 7, 487 unionized workers […] Read more
Average protein levels expected for wheat
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Resource News International) — Supplies of high-protein wheat are likely to be tighter for 2008-09 than in 2007-08, with protein levels in both Canada and the U.S. expected to be nearer to average and below last year’s levels. “I would say protein levels (for Canadian wheat) will probably be closer to average than they have […] Read more
Alta. crops not yet ready for harvest: AARD
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Resource News International) — Some haying has begun in certain areas of Alberta but most crops are not yet ready to be swathed and will not be ready until closer to the end of the month, according to a provincial crop specialist. Winter wheat and fall rye are being harvested in many areas of the […] Read more
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