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Canada asked to address ‘reality’ of food insecurity

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A United Nations expert sees Canada’s "export-led" agricultural and trade policies hampering the farming sector’s ability to move to "sustainable and decentralized" food systems. Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, wrapped up his official visit to Canada on Wednesday with a statement that credits Canadian farmers for their support […] Read more
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Census logs fewer and larger farms, more crops, less beef

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Canada’s latest Census of Agriculture charts an evolution in Canadian farming that will surprise no one in the sector: fewer, larger farms operated largely by Boomers. The 2011 census, released Thursday, counts 205,730 census farms in Canada, down 10.3 per cent from the previous census in 2006, operated by 293,925 census farmers, down 10.1 per […] Read more
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CFIA to consolidate labs, shed quarantine stations

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s cost-trimming proposals now include plans to shut down lab work in St. John’s, combine some of its lab space in B.C., consolidate other offices and sell off three unused quarantine inspection stations on the Prairies. The federal agency on Wednesday announced plans to consolidate "a number of" unnamed administrative offices […] Read more
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FREE to good home: FARM PROGRESS tickets

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Editor’s Note: Well, that was quick. This contest is now closed. Ticket winners will be notified in the next few days by email, with tickets to follow by mail. Thanks to everyone who entered, and we hope to see you at the show. Haven’t got your tickets yet for Canada’s Farm Progress Show? We might. […] Read more
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Longshot MP named NDP’s deputy ag critic

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A rookie Quebec MP who gained brief infamy by skipping part of her election campaign for a Vegas vacation is now deputy agriculture critic in Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The New Democrats on Thursday named Ruth Ellen Brosseau, MP for the central Quebec riding of Berthier-Maskinonge, as the deputy agriculture critic in new leader Thomas […] Read more
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Feds to end regional ag councils’ funding role

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Regional agriculture adaptation councils across Canada have been told their services won’t be required by the federal government come 2014. Several of 14 provincial and regional councils — bodies now tasked with approving and distributing funding from the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) — have reported receiving notice that the programs they managed will be […] Read more
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Sask. leads rise in Canadian farmland values

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The federal farm lending agency’s latest six-month checkup on the peaks and valleys of Canadian farmland values finds demand for Saskatchewan’s acres, in particular, continuing to catch up with the supply. While Saskatchewan, home to about 40 per cent of Canada’s arable land, has seen its farmland values rising since 2002, its land market until […] Read more
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Young farmers offered new loans for land, buildings

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Canadian farmers up to age thirtysomething are being offered loans to help them improve their operations by buying or upgrading land or farm buildings. Farm Credit Canada and the federal government on Thursday rolled out a new Young Farmer Loan product, featuring variable rates at prime plus 0.5 per cent, plus no loan processing fees. […] Read more
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Federal ag research, food inspection budgeting jeered

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Emerging details about reorganizations planned for federal agriculture research and food inspection have Canada’s ag minister responding on the defensive. "Farmers across Canada are divided on many issues in agriculture, but the one issue we all agree on being important is research," Stephen Vandervalk, president of the Grain Growers of Canada, said in a release […] Read more
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Forage exports remain strong

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While Canadian forage exports remain firm with solid U.S. demand and interest from China providing some underlying support, concerns remain that transportation issues and exports from the U.S. Midwest may limit further upside potential. Wayne Digby, executive director of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association, said some of the underlying support in Canadian exports has […] Read more

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