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Grain World: Geopolitics is back dominating global relations

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 29, 2019

Saskatoon | MarketsFarm — Geopolitics is again shaping the international scene, including China, Jason Shapiro explained here Thursday at the Grain World conference. Geopolitics, he said, resulted in catastrophic global wars and generated very little peace for close to a century. Shapiro, director of analysis for Geopolitical Futures — an Austin, Tex.-based international risk analysis […] Read more

What keeps you awake at night? A recent survey of farmers found things such as marketing and working capital rank up there with production concerns.

News

Modern farming produces a bumper crop of worries

More than 1,300 farmers were asked about their top concerns — and it’s a long list

By Staff November 26, 2019

What’s your biggest worry? Weather? Yield? Disease or pests? It’s actually selling what you produce, according to a recent Farm Credit Canada survey. The survey asked 1,363 producers about their major concerns and 67 per cent had marketing on their worry list — topping both production (60 per cent) and financial (53 per cent) risks. […] Read more

Mentoring of young veterinarians is key to retention at clinics.

Beef 911, Livestock

What we can do to address the shortage of large-animal vets

More spots in veterinary schools and more support for new grads would go a long way

By Roy Lewis November 25, 2019

After talking with large-animal veterinarians, observing the number of ads for large-animal veterinarians, and taking part in a job fair at the University of Calgary’s vet school, it’s clear that there is getting to be a real shortage of veterinarians wanting to do either mixed- or large-animal practice in Western Canada. But strategies are starting […] Read more

Livestock, News

Keep your Premises Identification account up to date

Premises ID has proved its worth since being created 11 years ago

By Staff November 21, 2019

The province is urging smaller operations with livestock (such as hobby farms and acreages) to register for the Premises Identification (PID) System and for all operations to keep their account information current. Since it was started 11 years ago, more than 45,500 premises have been registered with the system, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry said in […] Read more

General

Bibeau remains federal agriculture minister in shuffle

By D.c. Fraser November 20, 2019

Updated, Nov. 21— Quebec MP Marie-Claude Bibeau retains her role as federal minister of agriculture and agri-food in Wednesday’s cabinet shake-up for the Liberals’ minority government. Bibeau will join her colleagues — including returning Transport Minister Marc Garneau and new Labour Minister Filomena Tassi, a Hamilton MP and former minister for seniors — in having […] Read more

The province wants its funding research to boost productivity on Alberta farms and plans to work closely with farmer-led research organizations to determine priorities. But it also plans to cut ag research spending by $34.1 million over the next four years.

News

Are you prepared to do more with less agricultural research?

That’s the question farm and research groups are facing as government and industry funding falls

By Jennifer Blair November 18, 2019

There will be less government money and a renewed focus on boosting productivity on the farm, but the details of the province’s new plan for ag research are still up in the air. “We’d like to get to a point where we have a long-term vision for agricultural research — one that’s designed to be […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Dorian swept swimming cows two miles to North Carolina beach

By Jonathan Drake November 14, 2019

Cape Lookout National Seashore, N.C. | Reuters — Three cows have been spotted beachcombing on a remote barrier island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, swept to an unlikely grazing spot when Hurricane Dorian whipped waves powerful enough to carry them two miles from their home. One of the bovine bodysurfers was seen soon after the […] Read more

Reuters

Bunge shares slide as China trade war, pig disease upset exports

By Arundhati Sarkar, Tom Polansek October 30, 2019

Reuters – Agricultural merchant Bunge Ltd warned on Wednesday of a drop in annual profits due to mounting challenges to its grain trading and processing business from the U.S.-China trade war and a fatal pig disease in Asia, sending shares down more than 4 percent. The company reported better-than-expected third-quarter profits, driven by higher margins […] Read more

Livestock, Sheep/Goats

Agropur halts talks with Quebec goat dairy producers

By GFM Staff October 24, 2019

Agropur has gone back to Plan A for the fate of a major Quebec soft cheese processing plant after halting talks with the province’s goat dairy farmer association. Canada’s biggest dairy co-operative had announced in September last year it would close the former Fromagerie Damafro plant at Saint-Damase, Que. in April this year, but delayed […] Read more

Livestock, News

Premier vows crackdown on protesters who trespass on farms

Occupation of turkey barn last month sparks plan for new legislation, which critics call overkill 

By Staff October 21, 2019

Provincial justice officials will go after “illegal protesters” who trespass on Alberta farms, says Premier Jason Kenney. The premier and his justice and agriculture ministers travelled to the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony near Fort Macleod to announce tough new penalties for those conducting occupation-style protests like a recent one at the colony’s turkey farm. “Some […] Read more

JBS says U.S. IPO would not change headquarters

Prairie cash wheat: CWRS prices up, durum largely down

U.S. grains: Soy futures rise as China offers tariff waivers

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