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Corn growers, beekeepers await insecticide review

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario’s crop producer groups and beekeepers say they plan to “work together” this spring to protect crop pollinators as federal officials review and tighten label warnings on a group of corn insecticides for their potential risks to bees. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) last month announced a review of Canada’s approved neonicotinoid insecticides, […] Read more
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Federal budget boosts tax breaks to farmers

Reading Time: 4 minutes With a new five-year ag policy funding framework for farmers and agribusiness prepped for launch this spring, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s latest budget largely blew past Canada’s farming sector. Flaherty’s budget, released Thursday, offers farmers some additional breaks at tax time — but also points to retooling ahead for other programs, including the federal […] Read more
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U.S. agribusiness frets over sequestration

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Reading Time: 3 minutes U.S. farmers and agribusiness companies are worried that across-the-board federal budget cuts will snarl the supply channels for everything from milk and broiler chickens to grain shipments, but many are hopeful that the Obama administration and Republican opponents will find a compromise before major disruptions hit the food system. Most immediate concerns center on federal […] Read more
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Panel identifies gaps in ag water management

Reading Time: 2 minutes An expert panel convened by the Council of Canadian Academies is urging more research into the potential impact of climate change on water available for agriculture. In a newly released report commissioned by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the panel concludes that water and land resources in Canada can be more sustainably managed by developing forward-thinking […] Read more
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Canadian farms’ 2012 net income to hit record

Reading Time: 3 minutes Gauging farmers’ receipts against rising expenses, the federal ag department’s latest forecasts of farm net incomes point to "record" levels in 2012 and "continued strong" levels in 2013. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Wednesday released his ministry’s farm income forecast and medium-term outlook for the ag sector, noting a 2012 forecast which "reflects that farm […] Read more
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Canada’s WTO envoy to oversee dispute settlements

Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Trade Organization has named its representative from Canada as the chair for its Dispute Settlement Body. Jonathan Fried, Canada’s envoy to the WTO since last August, will chair the DSB for a one-year term, the global trade body’s general council announced Monday. As DSB chair, Fried replaces Pakistan’s WTO ambassador Shahid Bashir, who […] Read more
Eugene Whelan, shown here at the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s AGM in 2006, died Tuesday at age 88. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Allan Dawson)
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Trudeau’s iconic ag minister Eugene Whelan, 88

Reading Time: 4 minutes Funeral services are to be held Saturday for the man beneath the green Stetson hat who took the helm of Canadian agricultural policy throughout the Trudeau administration. Eugene Whelan, Canada’s agriculture minister from 1972 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984, died late Tuesday at age 88. According to the Windsor Star on Wednesday, Whelan’s death, […] Read more
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BNP Paribas suspends ag fund after criticism

Reading Time: 2 minutes BNP Paribas, France’s No. 1 listed bank, has suspended a 160 million euro (US$214 million) agricultural commodities fund after international aid group Oxfam criticized French banks for speculating on food prices. "We are suspending subscriptions," a spokeswoman for BNP said of its Parvest World Agriculture fund, explaining the move as part of the bank’s policy […] Read more
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USDA sees one more boom year for U.S. farmers

Reading Time: 3 minutes The seven-year-old U.S. agricultural boom, driven by record-high commodity prices and painfully tight supplies, is expected to peak this year and then come to an abrupt end as high costs start to bite, the government projected on Monday. The U.S. Agriculture Department said farm income would soar to a record $127.6 billion this year, up […] Read more
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Famine hit North Korea’s rice basket in 2012, report says

Reading Time: 3 minutes A famine in a key North Korean grain-growing region in 2012 may have killed thousands of people at the same time as the country was staging mass celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the state’s founder, according to a news agency based in Japan. It was impossible to verify the report […] Read more

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