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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Tyson closes pork plant in Iowa

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Tyson has closed its pork plant at Waterloo, Iowa, where about 200 of the 2,800 employees tested positive for COVID-19. It is the 10 ...

Bunge is selling 35 U.S. grain elevators

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Bunge is selling 35 of its inland grain elevators in the United States to a Japanese company. Zen-Noh Grain has agreed to “certain supp...

African swine fever spreading again in China

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African Swine Fever is spreading again in China after a significant decline at the end of last year. Then the incidence was down to a co...

Raw milk infected people with cryptosporidium

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A new research report has described cases of cryptosporidium that came from raw milk in the United States and the United Kingdom. The p...

Brooks, Alta., beef plant scales down

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The former XL beef-packing plant at Brooks, Alta., is scaling back slaughter and processing after 67 workers tested positive for COVID-19...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Pesticide regs relaxed

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The University of Guelph, in promoting its pesticide course for corn and soybean growers, says “regulatory changes proposed last year to re...

Corn side-swiped by oil price collapse

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Corn has been side-swiped by a drastic decline in oil prices to the point that some are paying others to take oil off their hands becau...
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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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