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Anti-spam rules to weigh on all commercial email

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 15, 2014

Farmers who market their wares directly to customers by email will need to rethink their efforts come July 1, as new federal anti-spam legislation takes effect. If you’re already on a company or ag association’s email list for newsletters or promotions, you’ve likely had email lately asking you to provide consent to continue to receive […] Read more

Welland, Ont. MP Malcolm Allen, shown here at centre in January with local restaurateurs Tarina Richard-Ash and Pete Kouretsos, on Wednesday launched the NDP’s food strategy. (MalcolmAllen.ndp.ca)

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Sustainability, health, development hooked into NDP food plan

By GFM Network News June 4, 2014

With about a year and a half to go before a federal election, the opposition New Democrats have mapped out a overarching food strategy roping in agriculture, rural affairs, environment and nutrition policy. NDP agriculture critic Malcolm Allen and deputy ag critic Ruth Ellen Brosseau on Wednesday launched their party’s “pan-Canadian” food strategy, under the […] Read more

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AAFC’s ag adaptaton program renewed, trimmed

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 27, 2014

Ag industry groups may now again tap into a federal grant program for projects helping the sector adapt to “emerging issues” — but those eligible will have to adapt to a smaller overall purse. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Monday announced a renewed five-year Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), replacing the previous five-year CAAP which […] Read more

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World food prices drop in April due to falling dairy

By GFM Network News May 9, 2014

Rome | Reuters — Global food prices fell in April, led by a sharp drop in dairy prices due to reduced buying by China and Russia and an extended season in New Zealand that boosted stocks, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly […] Read more

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Farming scholarship application deadline looms

By GFM Network News April 15, 2014

Applications for the 2015 Canadian Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust are due by April 30. Up to three scholarships of $15,000 each are available. Application forms are available online. Nuffield scholarships are awarded to enthusiastic individuals with a passion for agriculture and a desire to expand their knowledge, pursue new ideas and to share their findings […] Read more

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World food prices jump again in March, FAO says

By GFM Network News April 3, 2014

Rome | Reuters — Global food prices rose to their highest in almost a year in March, led by unfavourable weather for crops and political tensions over Ukraine, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly price changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, […] Read more

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Pricier beef ‘here to stay’ as food costs seen higher: USDA

By GFM Network News March 25, 2014

Washington | Reuters — U.S. food prices are expected to rise more rapidly this year after a very tame 2013, led by gains in beef, poultry and egg prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. The food price inflation outlook assumes normal weather, the USDA said, adding that the California drought poses a risk […] Read more

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World conservation ag congress coming to Winnipeg

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 19, 2014

“We are running out of dirt, and it’s no laughing matter.” So says Dr. David Montgomery, professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Montgomery, who sees the recent rise of no-till farming as “the hope for a new agricultural revolution that […] Read more

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Same EI premiums, no benefits for seasonal farm workers: study

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 17, 2014

Foreign workers brought to Canada for seasonal farm employment are seeing no employment insurance (EI) benefits for what they and their employers pay into the EI program, a union study shows. While the workers — who come to Canada for specific jobs and are shipped home at the job’s end — don’t usually qualify for […] Read more

Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye at Tuesday’s announcement of concluded negotiations on a Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement. (Jason Ransom photo courtesy PMO)

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Farm groups hail field-levelling trade deal with Korea

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 11, 2014

Negotiations are officially completed and terms finalized on a free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea, with a long line of enthusiastic Canadian farm export sectors in their wake. A trade pact between the two countries has been in the works since they agreed to formal talks in 2005, but stalled for months at […] Read more

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Anti-spam rules to weigh on all commercial email

Sustainability, health, development hooked into NDP food plan

AAFC’s ag adaptaton program renewed, trimmed

World food prices drop in April due to falling dairy

Farming scholarship application deadline looms

World food prices jump again in March, FAO says

Pricier beef ‘here to stay’ as food costs seen higher: USDA

World conservation ag congress coming to Winnipeg

Same EI premiums, no benefits for seasonal farm workers: study

Farm groups hail field-levelling trade deal with Korea

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