Less than 20 years after he immigrated to Lacombe, Alta., from his Netherlands dairy farm, dairy producer Hennie Bos has been appointed to the Canadian Dairy Commission. He joins chief executive officer and former Dairy Farmers of Canada president Jacques Laforge and former dairy processor and CDC chair Randy Williamson on the three-member federal commission […] Read more
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Bos appointed to Canadian Dairy Commission
Dakota Plains Cooperative approves merger with CHS Inc.
(Reuters) — Members of North Dakota-based Dakota Plains Cooperative approved a merger with top U.S. farmer co-operative CHS Inc. effective Jan. 1, pending approval by the CHS board, the companies said in a statement on Thursday. The merger was approved last week by 92 percent of Dakota Plains members, they said. The companies did not […] Read more
Manitoba soybeans late, but faring well
He has 600 acres to combine, but this might be the best year ever for soybeans on Albert Turski’s farm. So far, Turski has combined 900 acres of beans on his farm near La Salle, Man., and certain fields have yielded 60 bu. per acre. “I think we’re averaging around 50 right now,” he said […] Read more
Louis Dreyfus reports drop in net income after U.S. drought
GENEVA (Reuters) — Louis Dreyfus Commodities said its net income for continuing operations in the first half of the year fell by around 13 percent to $258.4 million from the same period in 2012, according to a report published on its website. The results are the first released since long-serving chief executive Serge Schoen was […] Read more
Global food prices fall to three-year low, FAO trims crop forecasts
ROME (Reuters) — Global food prices are not expected to fall much further after dipping to their lowest level in three years in September, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, trimming its estimate for 2013-14 world cereals production. The decline in prices last month was driven by a sharp fall in the cost […] Read more
Canadian wheat, canola crops the biggest on record – StatsCan
WINNIPEG (Reuters) — Canadian farmers are harvesting their biggest wheat and canola crops on record after favourable weather produced large yields, Statistics Canada said on Friday in its second production report of the year. Statistics Canada pegged the all-wheat crop at 33.026 million tonnes, up nearly eight percent from its August estimate of 30.6 million […] Read more
New StatsCan Numbers: whaddya think?
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Farmers offered insect ID tool
The Canadian Grain Commission has developed a new web-based tool to help farmers identify pests in stored grain. It’s available at www.grainscanada.gc.ca, and allows producers to use insect keys to determine the species of an insect found in stored grain. To identify an insect, producers choose the more accurate of two options that describe an […] Read more
B.C. farmer named to Farm Products Council
Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz has appointed Abbotsford, B.C., farmer Debra Etsell for a three-year term to the Farm Products Council of Canada. The FPCC oversees poultry and egg supply management systems, as well as import check-off programs used to collect money for research and promotion. This summer, the Canadian beef industry became the first to […] Read more
Consumer food choices not usually grounded in science
In debates about food quality, science is probably not the best weapon to sway the public on the merits of your side, said Crystal Mackay, Farm and Food Care Ontario executive director. Instead, she said, food choices tend to be based on emotion. “In agriculture, (with) our traditional approach of science based production practices… there’s […] Read more
