WINNIPEG (CNS Canada) — Spring road bans are causing problems shipping feedgrains to feedlots in Alberta. “The supply is actually there at the farmgate but getting the supply from the farmgate to the end-user means more truck logistics and higher freight rates typically,” said Jim Beusekom with Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. As well, the […] Read more
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Shipping feedgrains to Alta. feedlots becoming a problem
Looming trade war part of bigger threat
Threat, opportunity or both — it’s hard to know what the China-U.S. trade war means for Canada. There could be an opportunity for Canadian farmers to sell more soybeans, canola, wheat and pork to China, but instability and chaos in the global trading system is a massive risk for Canada, says the president of the […] Read more
Brexit casts doubt on cattle trade with Great Britain
OTTAWA — Canada negotiated a free trade agreement with the European Union but now that the United Kingdom is leaving the EU, questions arise about the future. “The U.K. has been one of our best allies there,” said John Masswohl of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. “We are in the realm of speculation about what might […] Read more
Farmers urged to continue fighting federal tax reform proposals
Many farmers might have forgotten about the federal government’s small business tax changes and are assuming they are not coming. That’d be a mistake, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Big changes are still rolling toward farm business reality, and farmers must prepare to face them and encourage the federal government to back off […] Read more
Farmers push standardized data for grain movement
Farm leaders who met with Canadian National Railway vice-president Sean Finn last week say the entire supply chain should use the same data so all players are working from the same numbers. Todd Lewis, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said he and representatives from commodity groups met informally with Finn in Regina […] Read more
Indigenous people remain under-represented in ag workforce
Many employers, at least in the food industry, aren’t interested in recruiting indigenous people. The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council recently surveyed agri-food businesses to see if they were interested in hiring under-represented groups. The survey asked employers if they wanted to recruit people who are newcomers to Canada, people with disabilities and indigenous people. […] Read more
U.S. House Republicans propose food stamp changes for Farm Bill
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee on Thursday called for changes to the government’s food assistance program for the poor, in a package of long-awaited proposals for the next U.S. Farm Bill that could complicate its passage through Congress. Among the proposed changes is a plan to raise the age to […] Read more
Canola backs away from lofty heights
WINNIPEG (CNS) – It was a busy week for canola contracts on the ICE Futures Complex as the most-active July contract rocked and rolled between C$530 to C$540 per tonne before ultimate settling at the C$528 mark on April 11. The last time the dominant canola contract was above the C$535 mark was in November […] Read more
Farmfair to stay in Edmonton
The show must go on for Farmfair International. The Edmonton based event will be held Nov. 7-11, said Lisa Holmes of Farmfair. “Farmfair will be at the Edmonton Expo centre for the next five years for sure and we plan to negotiate for the next five years,” she said. The organization has become a tenant […] Read more
High prices identified as farmland security issue
Senate committee identifies the cost of buying farmland as a deterrent to the next generation of farmers and a threat to land ownership
A group of Canadian senators has published a report that hopes to answer one of the perplexing questions facing western Canadian farm families: how do we keep Canadian farmland in the hands of Canadian farmers? “Farming is a challenging way to make a living at the best of times,” said Senator Diane Griffin, who chairs […] Read more
