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Commodity storm leaves food concerns intact

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Reading Time: 3 minutes This week’s commodities plunge has done little to dent concerns of continuing food price inflation, as grain prices held up better than most and fundamentals for the highly weather-sensitive sector are unchanged. Grain traders have had their eyes glued to weather forecasts rather than economic data, as heavy rainfall slows planting in the U.S. Corn […] Read more
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Ag Minister Ritz, ag critics win re-election

Reading Time: 3 minutes Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s agriculture minister will be among the Conservative cabinet members returning to Ottawa in the wake of Monday’s election, and most but not all handlers of the ag portfolio will follow. Late Monday night, Elections Canada reported the federal Conservatives as elected or leading in 167 of 308 ridings, earning a much-coveted […] Read more
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Supreme Court upholds Ont. farm union law

Reading Time: 3 minutes Legislation blocking Ontario’s farm workers from collective bargaining will stand, after Canada’s top court dismissed a major union’s court battle against the province’s rules. The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday upheld Ontario’s Agricultural Employees Protection Act (AEPA), which had previously been overturned at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2008. The top court dismissed […] Read more
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NEW SERIES: Following a farm family in sub-Saharan Africa

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Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the keys to achieving food security in Africa is ensuring that its millions of smallholder farmers are able to produce enough food for their families plus a surplus to sell in local markets. To get a better idea of the challenge facing a typical African farm family, we’ve identified one through Farm Radio […] Read more
General, Markets

Supply-managed sectors, CWB rip WTO report

Reading Time: 3 minutes A report last week from the chair of the World Trade Organization’s agriculture negotiations committee yields nothing positive for Canada’s supply-managed farm sectors, nor the Canadian Wheat Board, those groups’ farmer spokesmen say. The committee chairman, New Zealand’s WTO ambassador David Walker, on Thursday reported on consultations he’d undertaken on 10 categories of issues with […] Read more
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Commodities crunch worsens for consumers, companies

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Food, beverage and household products companies have been pressured for months by rising commodity costs and their stocks have paid the price, but Kimberly-Clark Corp. showed on Monday things could be even worse. “I think it is going to be really tough for a lot of these companies to post great quarters,” said James Tierney, […] Read more
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Farm private investment seen doubling in two years

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Inflows of private capital in agriculture worldwide are expected to more than double to around $5 billion to $7 billion in two years as rising food prices spur investments in farm land and production facilities. Investors from the United States and Europe are looking at South America for growing more feed grains, corn and soybeans, […] Read more
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The rise of iFarmer

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Three generations ago Canadian farmers got their market information from the local elevator and their weekly farm paper. A generation on, they shushed the kids and strained to hear the markets on the CBC’s noon-hour farm report. Just a generation ago, a handful took the electronic plunge and bought a DTN system that gave them […] Read more
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Cattle, crops at risk from N.D. floods, snow

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Snowstorms on top of flooding in North Dakota have not yet resulted in many cattle deaths as feared, but lingering cold, wet weather threatens the state’s herd, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said Tuesday. Spring temperatures are well below normal in North Dakota, a key U.S. grower of spring wheat and sugarbeets and the […] Read more

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