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U.S. Congress repeals COOL on beef, pork

By GFM Network News December 18, 2015

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both approved a repeal of the government’s six-year old mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) laws on beef and pork. Tucked into an omnibus appropriations bill put before Congress Friday, the repeal shuts the door on a major irritant in North American trade relations and is expected to curb […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada not yet pulling trade trigger on COOL

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 16, 2015

Canada remains “cautiously optimistic” that the U.S. government will repeal its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law before the Canadian and Mexican governments impose retaliatory tariffs. Federal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, speaking Wednesday from Nairobi on a conference call with reporters, said she was “not going to go into hypotheticals” about Canada’s next move if an omnibus […] Read more

A pasture infested with leafy spurge. This perennial weed spreads quickly and crowds out native vegetation.

Crops, Features

Battling with leafy spurge in Sask.

Leafy spurge is persistent, invasive, and hard to control. Know your enemy

By Edna Manning December 14, 2015

One of the most persistent and problematic weeds to infest large areas of pasture and prairie in Western Canada is leafy spurge. It is even a larger problem in the northern U.S. — North Dakota, and parts of Montana are badly infested; Wisconsin and Minnesota are also dealing with it. Leafy spurge is not native […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Reuters

U.K. review calls for urgent cuts to antibiotic use in livestock

By GFM Network News December 8, 2015

London | Reuters –– Massive use of antibiotics in farming poses a critical threat to global public health and should be reduced dramatically to an internationally-agreed target, according to a British government-commissioned review. Agreeing and implementing a global target for agricultural antibiotic use won’t be easy, the review, led by former Goldman Sachs chief economist […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

CME to revamp cattle delivery rules before COOL vote

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 4, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group plans changes to its rules for live cattle futures, requiring that all cattle delivered against the contract must be born and raised solely in the U.S., the exchange said in a statement Friday. The new requirement, effective Dec. 18, covers all currently listed trading months through April 2017. CME […] Read more

Livestock, News

VIDEO: Behind the scenes at Canadian Western Agribition

Lisa Guenther shows you a few sights and sounds from Agribition 2015

By Lisa Guenther December 1, 2015

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Agribition? Is it the cattle shows, the sheep shearing, or perhaps the rodeo? To get a sense of what’s going on at Canada’s largest livestock show, Grainews reporter Lisa Guenther asked show-goers to name their favourite part of Agribition.

Brazil court probing state-backed loans to JBS

By GFM Network News November 27, 2015

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s federal accounts court, the TCU, said it had identified irregularities on loans to JBS SA, the world’s largest beef producer, and is deepening an investigation into the company’s relationship with state-run lender BNDES. The TCU is probing loans used to purchase U.S.-companies Swift and Co, for about US$225 million […] Read more

Columns

Those awkward conversations about food production

Talking to urban consumers about food can be more uncomfortable than political debate

By Lisa Guenther November 26, 2015

By the time you read this, the 2015 federal election will be history. Maybe you will have even re-friended any politically-obnoxious people you dropped on Facebook in the weeks leading up to the big vote. Maybe. As I write this, before the election, I’m filled with the smug satisfaction of a citizen who already cast […] Read more

Australia’s Treasurer Scott Morrison, shown here earlier this year, has blocked the sale of S. Kidman’s farmland holdings to overseas bidders. (ScottMorrison.com.au)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Australia blocks foreign firm’s deal for largest farm owner

By GFM Network News November 19, 2015

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia on Thursday blocked the sale of the country’s largest landowner, private farming group S. Kidman and Co., to foreign investors, saying an agricultural area the size of South Korea should remain in Australian hands. Ownership of farmland is a sensitive political issue in Australia amid concerns that foreign buyers are […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

New ‘superbug’ gene found in animals, people in China

By GFM Network News November 18, 2015

London | Reuters — A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China — including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said Wednesday. The discovery was described as “alarming” by scientists, who called for urgent restrictions on the use […] Read more

GFM Network News

Canadian agriculture’s asks from the 2025 federal budget

China rapeseed meal futures see largest one-day gain in almost three months after Xi–Carney talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

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