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Dairy farm milk price drops for 2025. Nov. 1st, 2024 tagged Canadian Dairy Commission dairy Dairy Cattle milk. The Canadian Dairy Commission announced Nov. 1, 2024 that a decline in feed prices and the stabilization of other costs on dairy farms across the country means that the benchmark on-farm price for milk will decline by 0.0237 per cent ...
U.S. poultry to face new rules at Canadian border - AGCanada
1 day ago · The ongoing fight with bird flu in American dairies and poultry farms means that changes are coming for the shipment of U.S. birds and poultry crossing into Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has said that, starting Dec. 4, requirements to ship live poultry, birds, hatching eggs and pet ...
Canadian Grain Commission releases August export report
Oct 8, 2024 · Overall, 2.79 million tonnes of bulk grain were exported from licensed facilities in August, up from 2.46 million tonnes a year ago the CGC reported on Oct. 8. Canola exports in August of 956,300 tonnes were more than twice the amount the previous August. The bulk of the canola, 718,000 tonnes, was shipped to China, versus 233,300 tonnes a year ...
New Canadian feed regulations released - AGCanada
Jul 8, 2024 · Glacier FarmMedia—After more than a decade, Canada’s feed industry finally has a new set of rules.. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has released their long-promised update to national feed regulations. Formally referred to as the “Feeds Regulations, 2024,” the final version of the framework was registered June 17 and published for public view July 3 in part 2 of the Canada ...
Pulse Weekly: Smaller chickpeas leading to lower prices
1 day ago · Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The size of many chickpeas in Western Canada’s 2024-25 crop is leading to lower prices.. Jake Hansen, general manager of Mid-West Grain Ltd. in Moose Jaw, Sask. explained there was a greater proportion of the eight-millimetre variety of Kabuli chickpeas grown this year compared to the nine mm variety than in other years.
Federal budget promises lower costs, interest relief for farmers
Apr 16, 2024 · The section “Interest Relief for Farmers” proposes $64 million in funding to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada “to support a $250,000 interest-free limit on Advance Payments Program loans for the 2024 program year.”. Finally, “Protecting Farmers from the Costs of Climate Change” reads that “the federal government is committed to ...
Federal budget draws mixed reaction from Canadian ag groups
Apr 18, 2024 · Livestock tax deferral, capital gains exemption praised; overall lack of investment in agriculture noted. The 2024 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon has drawn mixed reactions from ag groups across Canada. While some have praised aspects of the plan, others have condemned the lack of attention paid to agriculture and farmers.
Manitoba crop report: Most of the harvest off the field
Oct 9, 2024 · Tagged harvest, manitoba, Manitoba Crop Report. Combining in Manitoba advanced 12 points at 85 per cent complete for the week ended Oct. 7. While some crops made great amounts of progress, others did not. The largest gains were made in the province's soybean and flax harvests as they are up 41 points apiece at 70 and 61 per cent finished ...
Larger Canadian crops predicted in AAFC’s first 2022 outlook
Jan 24, 2022 · MarketsFarm — A return to trend-line yields after the past year’s drought should lead to a significant increase in Canadian crop production in 2022, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2022-23 season from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released late Friday. Seeded area is expected to be up for wheat and the pulses, but down slightly for canola.
Feed weekly outlook: U.S. corn moving into Canadian feedlots
Nov 9, 2023 · MarketsFarm — The steady flow of corn from the United States into Canadian feedlots should keep prices for domestic feed grains under pressure for the foreseeable future. Canada imported 91,100 tonnes of corn from the U.S. during the week ended Nov. 2, taking the marketing-year-to-date total to 221,700 tonnes, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data.