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Crews replace lead-tainted water service lines at homes in Flint, Michigan in March. In view of the Flint emergency, other U.S. jurisdictions are expected to ramp up investment in water-related infrastructure. (CityofFlint.com)

Ad Feature: Edmonton firm acquires water works capacity

By GFM Network News April 16, 2016

Edmonton-based Stantec Inc., an engineering and infrastructure consulting company, has announced the biggest deal in its 62-year history. The all-cash deal for Broomfield, Colorado-based MWH Global, which Stantec said is expected to close in the second quarter could increase Stantec’s annual revenues by about 60 per cent, to more than $4.5 billion, while its global […] Read more

FarmLife

Don’t throw out that ham bone

Prairie Palate: If you served up an Easter ham, I hope you kept the bone to make soup

By Amy Jo Ehman April 15, 2016

Sometimes I eat out of the garbage. Case in point: One year as we cleaned up Easter dinner, I asked my sister-in-law what she did with the ham bone. It was a good ham and we enjoyed it immensely. As I was eating it, I thought of the (even more) delicious soup I could make […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

France set to ban dimethoate-treated cherries

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 15, 2016

Paris | Reuters — France will stop importing cherries from countries that use insecticide dimethoate after banning the chemical due to concerns over consumer health risks, the French agriculture ministry said. At a meeting of European Union country representatives on Friday, Italy and Spain said they would also withdraw dimethoate from their markets, but France […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Mars Food tells customers to go easy on the pasta sauce

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 15, 2016

London | Reuters –– Mars Food plans to tell customers to eat some of its Dolmio pasta sauces and macaroni cheese only once a week to maintain a balanced diet because of the products’ high levels of salt, sugar or fat. The scheme is part of a larger initiative by the privately owned U.S. food […] Read more

Confederation Building, St. John’s, N.L. (Gov.NL.ca)

Livestock

Newfoundland, in cost-cutting mode, scraps agrifood fund

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 15, 2016

A fund meant to support large-scale agrifood projects in Newfoundland and Labrador is a victim of spending cuts in the province’s latest budget. Finance Minister Cathy Bennett on Thursday mapped out an overall $8.48 billion provincial budget for 2016-17, with an expected deficit of $1.8 billion and a list of “measures to reduce spending.” For the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

CME to close New York trading floor in computers’ victory

By GFM Network News April 13, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group will shut its New York trading floor at year’s end as computerized trading claims another victim from the world’s old-school financial system. Options pits, where trades in commodities like gold, silver and oil take place face-to-face instead of electronically, will close a year after the CME shut most of […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

European Parliament backs glyphosate, with conditions

By GFM Network News April 13, 2016

Brussels | Reuters — European politicians advised on Wednesday that the herbicide glyphosate should only be approved for another seven years, rather than the 15 proposed by the EU executive, and should not be used by the general public. Environmental campaigners have demanded a ban on glyphosate, which is used in products such as Monsanto’s […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Global GMO area dips in 2015 in first-ever decline

By GFM Network News April 13, 2016

Reuters — The world scaled back biotech crop planting for the first time ever in 2015, led by a decline in the U.S., which has fuelled rapid expansion of genetically modified crops since their commercial launch two decades ago, according to an annual report released Wednesday. The decline was blamed largely on lower crop plantings […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

EU food safety experts warn on crop insecticide

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 12, 2016

Brussels | Reuters –– Dimethoate, an insecticide widely used to protect crops such as cherries, could be harmful to humans, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which advises EU policymakers, said Tuesday. The report follows a request from France, which is calling for a Europe-wide ban of the substance made by companies including BASF and […] Read more

Swaledale, a dale (valley) in Yorkshire. (CIA.gov)

Livestock, Reuters

England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 11, 2016

London | Reuters –– Farmland prices in England fell by 3.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year — the largest quarterly decline since 2008, weighed partly by uncertainty ahead of the June 23 referendum on European Union membership, estate agent Knight Frank said. Knight Frank’s Farmland Index fell to 19,538 pounds (C$35,881) […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures gain on higher beef values, tight supplies

Mail strike disrupts grain sample delivery

U.S. grains: Soybeans tick up as market weighs crops, U.S.-China ties

Other fruit-vegetable

Ad Feature: Edmonton firm acquires water works capacity

Don’t throw out that ham bone

France set to ban dimethoate-treated cherries

Mars Food tells customers to go easy on the pasta sauce

Newfoundland, in cost-cutting mode, scraps agrifood fund

CME to close New York trading floor in computers’ victory

European Parliament backs glyphosate, with conditions

Global GMO area dips in 2015 in first-ever decline

EU food safety experts warn on crop insecticide

England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

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