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Friday, August 16, 2019

$1.75 billion for dairy industry

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The federal government unveiled a promise of $1.75 as dairy-industry compensation for increased import competition flowing from the Trans-P...

CFO making women welcome

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The Chicken Farmers of Ontario marketing board is making moves to welcome women into leadership roles. “Through the CFO Women in Leaders...

Kraft-Heinz, Mondelez fined $16 million

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said it has fined Kraft Heinz and Mondelez International $16 million US for wheat-mark...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Cash advance clients get six more months

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Farmers who hold cash advances against grain and oilseeds crops have an extra six months to pay before they are declared in default.  S...

General Mills bows to activist pressure

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General Mills has bowed to activist pressure to reduce crop pesticides and announced new reduction limits this week. The As You Sow org...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Chicken allocation up three per cent

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Ontario’s chicken farmers will have the right to increase production by three per cent this fall and early winter. That’s  63,523,768 k...

Consumer advocates diss ”fake meat”

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The     United States Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is placing ads in the  Wall Street Journal  and the  New York Post  to point out pr...
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Jim Romahn
Journalist who has been reporting on agriculture since 1963; winner of more than 100 awards, including two Govenor- General Awards for Public Service in Journalism plus an honourable mention as one of five finalists plus the 1987 Michener-Deacon fellowship to study and report on biotechnology research in agriculture.
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