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Lower overhead buoys Canadian farmers’ profits

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Canadian farmers’ realized net income amounted to $4 billion in 2010, up almost 30 per cent from 2009 following a 19.6 per cent decline that year, Statistics Canada reports. Lower operating expenses more than offset a small decrease in farm cash receipts in 2010, the federal statistics agency said in a release Friday. Realized net […] Read more
General, Machinery

We’re at the world’s biggest ag machinery show

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Grainews’ machinery editor Scott Garvey is blogging this week from the largest exhibition of new farm machinery on the planet. Reporting from AgriTechnica at Hanover in northern Germany, Garvey notes that while the show’s 2,700 exhibitors from 48 countries are displaying their newest and best iron, manufacturers at this show also offer "a glimpse of […] Read more
General, Markets

Rise in Canadian farmland value accelerates

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Rising average values per acre for Canadian farmland are nothing new in recent years, but a much sharper increase in Saskatchewan over the first half of this year has pulled the national average along with it. In its latest Farmland Values Report, released Monday, Farm Credit Canada notes an increase of 7.4 per cent in […] Read more
General, Weather

Weather station network to double in three years

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Earth Networks, owner of the WeatherBug network and provider of equipment and data for the WeatherFarm program, says it plans to double its Canadian network over the next three years. "As the owner and operator of the largest weather network worldwide, Earth Networks is pleased to announce our plans to continue the WeatherFarm program and […] Read more
General, Markets

China passes Canada as top U.S. farm export market

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China, the world’s largest importer of cotton and soybeans, has topped Canada to become the No. 1 market for U.S. farm exports for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. U.S. exporters sold $20 billion in agricultural products to China during the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, according to a […] Read more
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Canada wants in on Trans-Pacific trade pact

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Canada’s dairy producers are assured their government doesn’t plan to talk itself out of its supply management system for dairy, eggs and poultry for the sake of a major Asia-Pacific trade deal. The Canadian government on Sunday announced its intent to enter consultations with members of the nine-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) toward Canada’s "possible participation […] Read more
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Feds launch new ag research, commercialization fund

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The federal government has budgeted $50 million for a new funding program meant to support development and commercialization of new products and processes in the agriculture sector. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Quebec MP Jacques Gourde on Thursday launched the Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) at separate events in Regina and St-Hyacinthe, Que., respectively. The AIP, […] Read more
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UPA president Lacasse won’t seek re-election

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The farmer in charge of Quebec’s overarching and politically influential farmers’ organization has decided not to seek a third term. Christian Lacasse, president of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), said Tuesday he will not defend the title at the organization’s annual meeting later this month. His decision clears the field for the only other […] Read more

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