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British children shipped to Canada as farm labourers from the 1870s to 1940s will get a year of tribute from the federal government. The federal government on Tuesday designated 2010 as the Year of the British Home Child, after members of the House of Commons last month unanimously supported a private member’s motion by Ontario […] Read more

Sales of tractors and combines in both the Canadian and U.S. markets are expected to drop significantly in 2010 from 2009 levels. The Milwaukee-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers, a trade association for over 800 makers of farm, forestry, construction, mining and utility equipment, said last week that it expects to see double-digit decreases, percentage-wise, in […] Read more

Revised, Jan. 21 — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent decision to prorogue Parliament has left a number of farming bills on the shelf, including amendments to the Canada Grain Act. “This move by Stephen Harper has effectively killed 36 pieces of the Conservative government’s own legislation, which will now have to get through the House […] Read more

The world’s largest French fry processor has announced plans to overhaul and simplify its Canadian frozen-food processing operations, basing its products on “real” ingredients. New Brunswick-based McCain Foods said Wednesday it will change its frozen food products “to be made from simple ingredients like people would use if they made them from scratch.” To that […] Read more

The U.S. Senate will lose a vocal opponent of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk and vocal supporter of country-of-origin labelling this fall. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a Democrat representing North Dakota, announced Tuesday he won’t seek another six-year term in elections this year. Dorgan served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives starting […] Read more

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We welcome your comments on any Daily News articles you see here. Every Friday, when applicable, we’ll post the best reader comments of the week. If you’d like to submit comment on any news item you see on this site, click on “Comment on this article” at right. If you’d like your comment to be […] Read more

Canadian biofuel processors expecting production incentives through the federal ecoEnergy for Biofuels program now have more time to complete their construction work, but also must meet some new criteria. The federal government on Dec. 14 bumped the construction deadline for funded projects to Sept. 30, 2012, from the previous deadline of March 31, 2011. Also […] Read more

We welcome your comments on any Daily News articles you see here. Every Friday, when applicable, we’ll post the best reader comments of the week. If you’d like to submit comment on any news item you see on this site, click on “Comment on this article” at right. If you’d like your comment to be […] Read more

How can the world feed itself? That’s the question being asked by the UK’s leading farming publication Farmers Weekly as it launches an international poll in association with Country Guide and a number of other key farming titles around the world. To take part, just click here. Everyone who enters will get a chance to […] Read more