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Canada preparing shorter list of tariff targets in COOL fight

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 2, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat-labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday. The Canadian government is likely to target beef, pork, California wines, mattresses, cherries and office furniture, possibly along with other goods, from […] Read more

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EU lawmakers urge calorie content labels to cover alcohol

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 30, 2015

Brussels | Reuters — European beer, wine and spirits makers should inform consumers about the amount of calories in their drinks via clear labelling, EU lawmakers said Wednesday. Most foods and drinks are subject to legislation mandating labels with nutritional and ingredient information, but alcoholic drinks are exempt. The European Parliament voted in favour of […] Read more

Ontario’s Trade Minister Michael Chan and Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal check out Ontario VQA wine on sale at a BHG grocery store in Beijing on April 18. (Ontario.ca)

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China’s wine growers beat France into second place

By GFM Network News April 27, 2015

Paris | Reuters — China overtook France last year as the world’s second largest wine grower by area under cultivation as it continued to plant vast fields of mostly imported grape vines to meet growing demand. The world’s second largest economy, which since 2013 consumes more red wine than any other country, has more than […] Read more

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New chemistry launched as fruit mite control

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 13, 2015

The first member of the benzoylacetonitrile group of crop insecticides (Group 25) to come to market in North America will be a mite control for fruit crops. BASF Canada announced Tuesday it has picked up registration for Nealta, a 200-gram-per-litre suspension concentrate of cyflumetofen, billed as a control for all life stages of tetranychid mites […] Read more

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Sask., B.C. reach deal on direct wine, spirits sales

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 2, 2014

Consumers in each of British Columbia and Saskatchewan may be able to order wine and craft spirits directly from the other province’s producers, starting next summer, without having to involve the Crown or third-party vendors. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and B.C. Premier Christy Clark announced an agreement Friday they said will “lift barriers to consumers […] Read more

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N.S. sets up wine development board

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 28, 2014

Grape growers and wine producers in Nova Scotia have got a new advisory board to bring their ideas and issues to the provincial government. The province on Tuesday named nine members, including Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell as chairman, to a new Nova Scotia Wine Development Board. Nova Scotia’s wineries sold almost $16.7 million in wine […] Read more

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California wine country quake losses seen in billions

By GFM Network News August 26, 2014

Napa, California | Reuters — A strong earthquake that jolted residents of California’s Napa Valley wine country from their beds on Sunday caused insured property damage likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but the region’s total economic losses will be several times that, experts said on Monday. The magnitude 6.0 quake, the biggest […] Read more

The old-vintages cellar at Chateau Haut-Brion. Collectors of fine wines such as Haut-Brion could have earned annualized real returns of 4.1 per cent on their investment between 1900 and 2012, a study shows. (DomainClarenceDillon.com)

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Red wine a winning investment in 20th century

By GFM Network News May 20, 2014

London | Reuters — Forget government bonds, fine art and even stamps: red wine outperformed them all over the 20th century. At least that’s what research by a team of academics from the University of Cambridge, HEC Paris and Vanderbilt University of Nashville shows. The Warren Buffetts of the fine wine world could have earned […] Read more

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U.S. becomes world’s biggest wine market as French drinkers cut down

By GFM Network News May 13, 2014

Paris | Reuters — The United States became the world’s biggest market for wine last year, beating France into second place for the first time as consumption slides in the country long seen as its natural home and Americans develop a greater taste for it. U.S. consumers bought 29.1 million hectolitres of wine in 2013, […] Read more

New regulations specifically require products sold as icewine in Canada to be made exclusively from grapes naturally frozen on the vine. (WineriesofNiagaraontheLake.com)

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New standard to define icewine in Canada

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 13, 2014

If it’s not made only with grapes naturally frozen on the vine, it can’t be called icewine. As obvious as it may seem, a new move to enshrine that notion in the federal Agricultural Products Act is expected to ease and boost exports of Canada’s most lucrative wines and weed out any pretenders claiming to […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures hit new highs on resilient consumer demand

Corteva raises annual profit forecast after strong first-half performance

U.S. grains: Wheat hits 5-year low, corn at contract lows as supply pressure builds

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures hit new highs on resilient consumer demand

Corteva raises annual profit forecast after strong first-half performance

U.S. grains: Wheat hits 5-year low, corn at contract lows as supply pressure builds

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Canada preparing shorter list of tariff targets in COOL fight

EU lawmakers urge calorie content labels to cover alcohol

China’s wine growers beat France into second place

New chemistry launched as fruit mite control

Sask., B.C. reach deal on direct wine, spirits sales

N.S. sets up wine development board

California wine country quake losses seen in billions

Red wine a winning investment in 20th century

U.S. becomes world’s biggest wine market as French drinkers cut down

New standard to define icewine in Canada

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