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Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis. (MAPAQ.gouv.qc.ca)

Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Sheep/Goats

Quebec plans new legal status for animals

By GFM Network News June 5, 2015

Quebec’s agriculture minister has tabled a new provincial government bill to raise the legal status of domestic and farmed animals in the province beyond that of “furniture.” Pierre Paradis on Friday introduced Bill 54 in the provincial assembly, with the stated goal of enshrining animals in Quebec’s Civil Code as sentient beings — that is, feeling and […] Read more

man standing in mud with cattle in background

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Got mud? Here’s some tips on coping with wet conditions on the farm

There appears to be no easy solution to manage mud

By Debbie Chikousky June 3, 2015

Alexander Pope must have been thinking of farmers in 1734 when he wrote “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blessed.” There is a deep abiding faith that this year will be better than last which seems to drive us all forward to battle our farming enemies from […] Read more

Grain Farmers of Ontario chair Mark Brock speaks with media Friday on the front lawn of MPP Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, Ont. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Corn, Crops, Soybeans

Pearce: GFO goes informative rather than inflammatory

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News June 1, 2015

It’s not that farmers in Ontario aren’t frustrated and angry concerning legislation aimed at curbing the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments. They are. However, during a protest Friday in front of Ontario Deputy Premier Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, executives with the Grain Farmers of Ontario and roughly 35 farmers took a more proactive […] Read more

General

Farm and Country editor John Phillips, 88

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 30, 2015

A memorial is scheduled Saturday in Toronto for journalist John Phillips, who served 25 years as editor of the Ontario farming journal Farm and Country. Phillips died “peacefully” Wednesday at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga at age 88, according to his obituary. According to Farm and Country’s successor magazine Better Farming, Phillips was the now-defunct […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets

Que. pledges reserve to backstop risk management programs

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 28, 2015

Quebec’s agriculture ministry plans to set up a $300 million reserve fund to backstop any sudden shortfalls in provincial risk management program funds for farmers. Speaking Thursday to the provincial pork producer group, Les Eleveurs de porcs du Quebec, Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis said the province will set up the reserve over the next two […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

U.S. EPA proposing temporary pesticide-free zones for honeybees

By GFM Network News May 28, 2015

Reuters — U.S. environmental regulators on Thursday proposed a rule that would create temporary pesticide-free zones to protect commercial honeybees, which are critical to food production and have been dying off at alarming rates. The restrictions are aimed at protecting bees from “pesticides that are acutely toxic” to them, and would cover foliar applications when […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Number of hungry people worldwide drops below 800M, U.N. says

By GFM Network News May 27, 2015

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation –– The number of people in the world still going to bed hungry 15 years after the U.N. placed eradicating hunger and extreme poverty at the top of its Millennium Development Goals has dropped to 795 million, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report by three U.N. agencies […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Supply-managed sectors bolster defenses against TPP

By GFM Network News May 26, 2015

Reuters — Canadian farmers are stepping up their campaign against a nearly complete Pacific trade pact they fear will destroy protections for local dairy, egg and chicken producers and endanger jobs. Farmers in Quebec, which produces 40 per cent of Canada’s dairy products, ran full-page newspaper advertisements on Tuesday warning Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations threaten […] Read more

General, Machinery, Markets

CONTEST CLOSED: Farm Progress Show tickets

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 26, 2015

Editor’s Note: Many, many thanks to everyone who entered, but as much as we wish we had free tickets for everyone, the contest is now closed. Our 50 winners can expect to be notified later today by email, and if all goes well, I’ll have the tickets in the mail by the end of the day. If you’re […] Read more

A CL-215 water bomber drops water on a fire north of Turtle Lake, Sask, on Thursday evening. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Livestock, Weather

Guenther (video): Northwestern Sask. fire hazard looms over farms

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News May 22, 2015

Judy Wilkinson was planting potatoes on Thursday when she had a bad feeling: the dry weather was just right for a fire. “It’s scary out there. The buffalo don’t want to eat hay anymore,” said Wilkinson, who with her husband Kevin raises bison on the forest’s edge near Turtle Lake, Sask. “They’re on the move, […] Read more

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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