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This durum wheat crop was still ripening in southeastern Saskatchewan on Aug. 4, 2019.

Farmer Panel: Weather just needs a balancing device

By Lee Hart August 27, 2019

Too dry in some areas — harvest started as early as late July, but in some cases not much crop to combine — while on the other end of the scale it doesn’t want to quit raining, with some crops drowned out and harvest likely to be delayed. Those are the extremes. Conditions on other farms […] Read more

File photo of marbled Japanese beef on display at retail. (ES3N/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Japan set to grant TPP-level access for U.S. beef, pork

By GFM Network News August 24, 2019

Tokyo | Reuters — The United States and Japan have reached the broad framework of a trade agreement, Japan’s Nikkei business daily said on Saturday, with Tokyo making concessions on its agriculture but none immediately apparent from Washington on automobiles. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi reached the deal in Washington […] Read more

Vanessa Kummer is seen on a storage bin catwalk on her family farm near Colfax, N.D. on Aug. 6, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Dan Koeck)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

On the front lines: Trade war sinks North Dakota soy growers

By GFM Network News August 22, 2019

Colfax, N.D. | Reuters — North Dakota bet bigger on Chinese soybean demand than any other U.S. state. The industry here — on the far northwestern edge of the U.S. farm belt, close to Pacific ports — spent millions on grain storage and rail-loading infrastructure while boosting plantings by five-fold in 20 years. Now, as […] Read more

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

General, Reuters, Weather

As Amazon burns, Bolsonaro tells rest of world not to interfere

By GFM Network News August 22, 2019

Brasilia/Sao Paulo | Reuters — Amid growing international criticism over wildfires raging through the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday admitted farmers could be illegally setting the rainforest alight but told foreign powers not to interfere. French President Emmanuel Macron and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres both took to Twitter to express their […] Read more

A slide is pictured behind members of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during a news conference on the Special Report on Climate Change and Land after IPCC’s 50th session in Geneva on Aug. 8, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

General, Reuters, Weather

UN flags need to reduce meat consumption to curb land use impact on global warming

By GFM Network News August 8, 2019

London/Geneva | Reuters — Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded. Although the report stopped short of explicitly advocating going meat-free, it called for big changes to farming […] Read more

Crops

Two-thirds of Saskatchewan crops at normal pace of growth

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 18, 2019

MarketsFarm — Although a significant portion of Saskatchewan crops is behind in development at this point in the summer, a good majority of crops are on a normal pace. In the provincial agriculture ministry’s crop report for the period of July 9-15, fall and spring cereals rated 63 per cent normal, while 28 and 35 […] Read more

SGS’s cereals lab in Guelph at its official opening in 2016. (SGS.com)

Crops

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

By GFM Network News July 18, 2019

Geneva | Reuters — Swiss inspections group SGS plans to trim its workforce by 2,000 across about 120 countries in a process of natural attrition rather than sudden cuts or corporate restructuring, company spokesman Daniel Rufenacht said on Thursday. CEO Frankie Ng was earlier quoted by Swiss newspapers Handelszeitung and Tribune de Geneve as saying […] Read more

A three-year-old holds a protest sign ahead of a Dec. 2, 2015 meeting at Okotoks, Alta. between farmers and ranchers and Alberta’s then-ministers of labour and agriculture. (Photo: Reuters/Mike Sturk)

General, Machinery

Consultations begin online for replacing Alberta’s Bill 6

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News July 13, 2019

A new online survey and direct consultations this summer are expected to inform the new Alberta government’s plans to swap out its predecessor’s legislation on farm and ranch worker protection. Alberta’s governing United Conservatives — who made repeal and replacement of Bill 6 a core plank of their platform before unseating the NDP government back […] Read more

EU flags in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. (Jorisvo/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

U.S., Canada, 14 others slam EU farm product regulation at WTO

By GFM Network News July 4, 2019

Geneva | Reuters — The United States and 15 other countries launched a broadside of criticism at the European Union on Thursday, saying its “hazard-based” approach to regulating pesticides and other “critical tools” used by farmers was damaging livelihoods worldwide. Their statement, submitted to the World Trade Organization, said the EU’s approach created great uncertainty […] Read more

General

Former Ontario Tory ag critic returns to file as assistant

By GFM Network News June 30, 2019

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has added a second veteran MPP to assist Ag Minister Ernie Hardeman with the agriculture, food and rural affairs portfolio. Ford on Wednesday named Toby Barrett as parliamentary assistant to the minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs, with responsibility for agriculture and food. Randy Pettapiece, who since June last year […] Read more

Daily Network News

USDA attachés forecast some changes in China’s oilseeds, cereals

China urges hog producers to manage output, vows timely reserve adjustments

Farm Credit Canada offers aid to farmers, companies affected by Iran war price spikes

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