Its position may be out of step with the biofuel buzz -- but it's hard to argue. It's one thing to compete with a market-driven demand for feedgrain, but quite another to be forced to compete with an industry for which government is creating the demand by requiring biofuel blends, and subsidizing the development needed to meet those targets. It all adds up to increased pressure on the beleaguered cattle industry, still attempting to recover from the impacts of the 2003 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) debacle, a stronger Canadian dollar and weather-induced feed shortages. A 2006 analysis by the Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) tallied up $4.062 billion in BSE-related losses alone. The recovery is not complete, with the border still closed to older catt...
The day before the decertification vote the Mexican consul -- which has a vested interest in keeping workers in Canada, as their remittances are a major source of national income -- held a closed-door meeting with workers at Mayfair Farms. Early this summer the Mexican consul visited all farms with seasonal agricultural workers in Manitoba letting workers know that should they unionize they would be blacklisted. There is much more to be done. Workers should have immediate access to Manitoba Health Insurance. Strengthened by the new Worker Recruitment Protection Act, the Manitoba government should exercise its duty to monitor conditions at farms. Immediate measures should be put in place to end blatant union-busting. Workers need the right to appeal a dismissal before being repatriated ...
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... will face in tackling the entrenched agricultural trade barriers that exist on both sides of the Atl... entry of business persons, competition policy, labour, and the environment. (6) The results of t... leader, has also been inhibited and research on genetically modified crops slowed due to market...
...Dunmore B. The Agricultural Employees Protection Act (AEPA) C. The AEPA at Tri...After several months of meticulous research and work, it presents these to the employer. The e...It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of ce...
... deeply flawed and carries serious negative policy implications. A more nuanced understanding of the ... result, high energy prices have made agricultural production more expensive by raising the cost of i... set in: investment in agricultural research and development has fallen. New technologies, espe...
It's the dark side of the booming global demand for U.S. corn, wheat and soybeans. The surge in exports is revealing inefficiencies in the country's railways, highways and rivers that carry the grain that helps feed the world. And those bottlenecks are costing farmers, shippers and ultimately consumers millions of dollars a year. When you're putting wheat on the ground, there's going to be a loss," [Mark Hodges] said. "They don't ever like to put it on the ground, but when wheat is $7, $8 or $10 a bushel, they sure don't like to put it on the ground. "We're way, way behind in our infrastructure investment, both in the private sector and publicly," said Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, a trade group representing grain exporters. "And we n...
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Diet-related health problems have increased dramatically over the last few years. Consequently, nutritional labeling has emerged as an important aspect of consumers' food purchase decisions. Nutritional content in food products is considered to be a credence attribute. However, if trustworthy nutritional labels are available, nutritional labels could function as a search characteristic. The regulatory environment in some countries (e.g. USA, Australia etc.) has long recognized the potential of standardized on-pack nutrition information and has mandated the presence of nutritional labels on all processed food products. Others, like the EU, are contemplating similar mandatory nutritional labeling regulations. The nutritional labeling literature has grown significantly in recent years. Our...
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Those big four-wheel-drive tractors have fuel tanks that hold between 1,100 and 1,300 litres of fuel. With the farm price for diesel running at about 80 cents a litre, that's $1,000 a fill, out of which the farmer will get little more than a good day's work. Why? "One factor may be higher input costs for canola compared with the cost of producing alternative crops, despite excellent canola yields last year in Saskatchewan and Alberta and expectations for bio-diesel demand," Statistics Canada says. What you'll see instead is a lot more flax, the crop that turns fields into lakes of rippling blue flowers. Flax might not be the most potentially lucrative crop in a farmer's rotation, but it's a steady one. More often than not, it gives back more than it costs to grow.
... out of the U.S.-based Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) that high fuel a...
...Anyone conducting case research may find it useful as a way to quickly appreciate ... action, and if so whether there are policy considerations that limit liability. (17) Because ..., (151) the OCA found that the Agricultural Employees Protection Act (AEPA) (152) did not prov...
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