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Drought tolerance a ‘hot’ topic for 2012 and 2013

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Reading Time: 2 minutes In years to come, 2012 in Ontario will be remembered as a drought year along with 2001 and 1988. Despite the cheery prospect of a winter with little ground cover and uncommonly warm temperatures, many farmers spent the early part of the year bracing themselves for a drier-than-normal growing season. At the same time, several […] Read more
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Iowa farmland sale hits new record high at $21,900 an acre

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Reading Time: 3 minutes As the Midwest struggles with the ripple effects of this year’s devastating drought, farmland prices in Iowa hit a new record high on Thursday when an 80.47-acre parcel sold for $21,900 an acre, the auction firm that handled the sale said Friday. The parcel is located in Sioux County near Boyden, Iowa, about 42 miles […] Read more
General, Livestock

CFIA says not more safety concerns at XL

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has no food-safety worries in allowing XL Foods plant in Brooks to re-open. “We are confident that all issues have been fully addressed,” said Paul Mayers, associate vice-president of programs for CFIA. Problems at the plant ranged from failing to follow its own food-safety plan to poor analysis […] Read more
Crops, General, Markets

Shrinking canola oil content pinches crushers, exporters

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Supply worries about Canada’s disappointingly small canola harvest this year are compounded by the oilseed’s reduced oil content, crimping profits for crushers and leaving food companies to scramble for other vegetable oils. Expectations were high early in the crop year that a record-large canola crop in top grower Canada would compensate for some of the […] Read more
Crops, General, Markets

Oat prices near historic highs

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Cash bids for oats in Manitoba have soared to a level near historic highs, industry officials said. Some Manitoba oat farmers were receiving up to $4.00 per bushel as of Oct. 22, Warren Alexander, a commodity trader with Emerson Milling, in Emerson said. "This price level, historically, seems to be the high," he said. "Prices have […] Read more
Crops, General, Markets

Wheat up fourth straight day, eye on export demand

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Chicago wheat futures rose for a fourth straight session on Monday amid expectations a likely export ban in Ukraine would shift overseas buyers to the United States and on concerns about dry weather in the southern Plains bread basket. Soybeans rallied to recoup Friday’s losses as the largest harvest in the world began to wind […] Read more
Jon Stewart of U.S. cable channel Comedy Central interviews President Barack Obama on Oct. 18. (Pete Souza photo, WhiteHouse.gov)
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Will the U.S. election matter for Canada’s farmers?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Western Canada’s farmers may not get a vote in the upcoming U.S. election, but policy south of the border can have a major effect on the agricultural markets across North America. U.S. agricultural policy “is extremely important… and has always had drastic effects on us,” said Terry Boehm, president of the National Farmers Union in […] Read more
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Loblaw to cut 700 head office, admin jobs

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s largest food retail company, citing long-term planning for efficiency, plans to eliminate about 700 management and administrative jobs, most notably at its head office. Loblaw Companies said Tuesday its changes take effect starting that day and should be complete in the next three weeks, for an estimated one-time fourth-quarter charge of about $60 million […] Read more

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