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Anti-spam rules to weigh on all commercial email

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers who market their wares directly to customers by email will need to rethink their efforts come July 1, as new federal anti-spam legislation takes effect. If you’re already on a company or ag association’s email list for newsletters or promotions, you’ve likely had email lately asking you to provide consent to continue to receive […] Read more
Welland, Ont. MP Malcolm Allen, shown here at centre in January with local restaurateurs Tarina Richard-Ash and Pete Kouretsos, on Wednesday launched the NDP’s food strategy. (MalcolmAllen.ndp.ca)
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Sustainability, health, development hooked into NDP food plan

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Reading Time: 4 minutes With about a year and a half to go before a federal election, the opposition New Democrats have mapped out a overarching food strategy roping in agriculture, rural affairs, environment and nutrition policy. NDP agriculture critic Malcolm Allen and deputy ag critic Ruth Ellen Brosseau on Wednesday launched their party’s “pan-Canadian” food strategy, under the […] Read more
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AAFC’s ag adaptaton program renewed, trimmed

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Ag industry groups may now again tap into a federal grant program for projects helping the sector adapt to “emerging issues” — but those eligible will have to adapt to a smaller overall purse. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Monday announced a renewed five-year Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), replacing the previous five-year CAAP which […] Read more
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World food prices drop in April due to falling dairy

Reading Time: < 1 minute Rome | Reuters — Global food prices fell in April, led by a sharp drop in dairy prices due to reduced buying by China and Russia and an extended season in New Zealand that boosted stocks, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly […] Read more
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Farming scholarship application deadline looms

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Applications for the 2015 Canadian Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust are due by April 30. Up to three scholarships of $15,000 each are available. Application forms are available online. Nuffield scholarships are awarded to enthusiastic individuals with a passion for agriculture and a desire to expand their knowledge, pursue new ideas and to share their findings […] Read more
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World food prices jump again in March, FAO says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Rome | Reuters — Global food prices rose to their highest in almost a year in March, led by unfavourable weather for crops and political tensions over Ukraine, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly price changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, […] Read more
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World conservation ag congress coming to Winnipeg

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Reading Time: 2 minutes “We are running out of dirt, and it’s no laughing matter.” So says Dr. David Montgomery, professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Montgomery, who sees the recent rise of no-till farming as “the hope for a new agricultural revolution that […] Read more

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