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EU and South America strike trade deal set to hit pushback in Europe
Montevideo/Brussels | Reuters — The European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc struck an agreement on a long-delayed free trade deal on Friday which now faces a tortuous battle for approval in ...
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Labour savings only the beginning with automated calf feeders
Glacier FarmMedia — Labour savings are the main reason dairy and veal producers express interest in automated calf feeding systems. But once installed, producers find the systems have other benefits ...
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Bird flu detected in pigs – here’s why virologists are concerned
H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020. But ...
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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures bounce on tight supplies, firm cash markets
Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures rebounded on Tuesday from prior-session declines, continuing a recent climb sparked by tight cattle supplies and firm ...
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Explainer: China’s probes on EU products following EV tariffs
Beijing/London | Reuters—China has opened an anti-subsidy probe into imported dairy products from the European Union, stepping up tension with the bloc a day after Brussels released its revised draft ...
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August storms yield hail claims on Prairie crops
It was almost time for harvest equipment to get rolling, but a significant number of Prairie producers got a visit from the white combine instead. According to an Aug. 30 release from the Canadian ...
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StatCan issues crush, delivery reports
StatCan reported the November canola crush was almost 1.02 million tonnes. While that was 12.2 per cent more than in the ...
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$7.9 million cattle research project aims to find rumen efficiencies
A pan-Canadian research project will try to understand more about how methane is generated in the rumen of beef and dairy ...
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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise on strong beef, cash cattle markets
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures ended higher on Friday, buoyed by rising wholesale beef prices and firm ...
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Canadian Dollar and Business Outlook: Loonie eases back
The Canadian dollar was a pinch lower on Friday morning as trading in the currency resumed following Christmas and Boxing Day. As of 8:36 am CST, the loonie was at US$0.6943 or US$1=C$1.4403 compared ...
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CPKC overshoots grain revenue entitlement, CN comes up short
Canadian National Railway Company (CN)'s grain revenue fell below its annual entitlement, and Canadian Pacific Kansas City ...
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U.S. grains: US corn futures climb to 6-month top, wheat firms, soy sags
U.S. corn futures hit a six-month high on Friday on stronger-than-expected weekly export sales data and supportive chart ...