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Global food prices seen flat in November

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Global food prices were little changed in November after a rise the month before, but were down 4.4 per cent from a year earlier, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, forecasting stable or declining prices in coming months. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly price changes for a […] Read more
General, Machinery

Kubota makes play for Canadian hay tools market

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Canadian hay growers in the market for new mowers, rakes or spreaders will see a new player on some dealer lots next year. The Canadian arm of Japanese ag equipment maker Kubota has announced it will launch a new line of Kubota-branded hay tools in Canada in 2014. Norwegian farm equipment manufacturer Kverneland, which Kubota […] Read more
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January-to-September farm cash receipts up: StatsCan

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Manitoba’s recovery from a 2011 drought, improved potato marketings in New Brunswick and changes in payment timing for Prairie wheat have helped boost farm cash receipts in the first three quarters of this year, Statistics Canada reports. Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled $39.9 billion between January and September, up 1.9 per cent from […] Read more
General, Weather

Brazil confirms spike in Amazon deforestation

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Deforestation in the Amazon increased by nearly a third over the past year, according to Brazilian government figures released Thursday, confirming a feared reversal in what had been steady progress over the past decade against destruction of the world’s largest rainforest. Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July showed that deforestation […] Read more
General, Machinery

Farm Business Communications earns online honours

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The web arm of Canadian Cattlemen magazine and the mobile app for Grainews were among the winners at the fifth annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards announced Wednesday in Toronto. CanadianCattlemen.ca earned a silver award for best overall companion website in the Blue (business-to-business, professional association, farm, scholarly) division at the COPA show. Grainews Mobile, meanwhile, […] Read more
Crops, General

Ritz announces proposed changes to Plant Breeders Rights Act

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Canada intends to sign onto an international convention to give increased variety protection to plant breeders, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told the Canadian Seed Trade Association’s semi-annual meeting in Winnipeg on Wednesday. Ritz said the government plans to sign on to the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants convention (UPOV […] Read more
CN Rail reaches tentative deal with Teamsters Union
Crops, General

CN Rail reaches tentative deal with Teamsters Union

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Canadian National Railway Co , the country’s largest rail operator, agreed to a new labour contract for some 3,300 conductors, trainmen, yardmen and traffic coordinators represented by the Teamsters union, the railway said Thursday. The tentative three-year deal, the details of which were withheld pending ratification, comes after a week of talks with government-appointed mediators. […] Read more

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