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Smithfield Foods releases group sow housing video

Reading Time: < 1 minute Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has released a video describing the sow group housing system it will use for all its company-owned barns by 2017. “We think this is both an entertaining and informative look at how we are caring for pregnant sows, with actual footage from our sow farms that helps to […] Read more
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Quality concerns flare up as EU wheat harvest gathers pace

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Worries about the quality of this year’s western European wheat crop are emerging, as harvest activity moves to a key growing belt in top producer France and gets underway in Germany. Grain experts are painting a mixed picture of projections with French production expected to at least match last year and larger harvests anticipated in […] Read more
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Maple Leaf Foods posts zero earnings for second quarter

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods reported a disappointing quarterly loss on Wednesday, hurt by weak returns on raising pigs. Shares fell 3.6 per cent or 55 cents to $14.95 in early trading in Toronto. North American hog farmers have been hard-pressed to survive losses in the past year, due to at-times soaring costs of […] Read more
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Cooler weather benefiting some crops in Alberta

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Recent cooler temperatures seen across Alberta have been benefiting some crops in the province, a crop specialist said. Neil Whatley of the Alberta Agriculture Info Centre said canola and pea crops were able to avoid flower blasting this July, because temperatures were cooler than normal. Growing conditions have been generally favourable across the province, with most crops […] Read more
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Alberta’s mandatory cattle age verification under review

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s mandatory cattle age-verification regulations will be under the microscope, said John Brown, executive director of the Livestock Research and Extension Branch of Alberta Agriculture. Brown said results-based budgeting means government departments review what they’re doing and what value they provide for Albertans. That will affect the program since that in January, the federal government […] Read more
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Congress eyes change to U.S. biofuels mandate

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Change may be looming for the U.S. biofuel mandate as a powerful Congressional panel sets its sights on the program and pressure mounts for the Obama administration to relieve fuel market problems created by rising renewable fuel targets. Requiring increasing amounts of biofuels to be blended into the nation’s gasoline and diesel supplies, the renewable […] Read more
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Potash sector rocked as Russia’s Uralkali quits cartel

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Russia’s Uralkali  quit one of the world’s two big potash cartels on Tuesday, heralding a price war for the key crop nutrient and pummeling the shares of companies that produce it. The break-up of the Belarusian Potash Company (BPC), a joint venture with Belarussian partner Belaruskali, leaves North America’s Canpotex as the dominant potash export […] Read more
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U.S. slaughterhouse workers, truckers fuel deadly piglet virus spread

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Questionable hygiene practices among meat processing plant employees, freight truck drivers and others who work at hog slaughter houses are aiding in the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus across the United States, according to research conducted by the University of Illinois staff. PEDv is spread most commonly by pigs ingesting contaminated feces. The virus, […] Read more
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Checkoff now applies to imported beef

Reading Time: < 1 minute The $1 per head domestic checkoff for beef research and promotion now applies to imported cattle as well following an amendment to a Farm Products Council of Canada regulation. Canada Beef, the country’s national promotion agency, estimates the levy will collect $800,000 annually. “The Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC) and Canada Beef have been […] Read more
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GMO companies launch website to fight anti-biotech movement

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A group of biotech seed companies on Monday launched an online forum to combat mounting opposition to genetically modified foods among consumer groups and activists. The website, www.GMOAnswers.com, is designed as a “central online resource” for information on genetically modified organisms and their use in agriculture and food production, the Biotechnology Industry Organization said. The […] Read more

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