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Renfrew County auctioneer Preston
Cull sells 500 farmers on the idea of "one voice" for farmers. Patrick
Meagher photo
LEAD
STORY
EDITORIALS
- Industry thrives while farmers lose
The current BSE crisis is proof that
farmers have been sold out by many of Canada's political and business
leaders.
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- It's time for
farmers to speak with one voice
After Wayne Holland, co-chair, Alliance for Fair
Trade in Beef, told the Standing Committee on Agriculture the beef
industry was in turmoil, MP Howard Hilstrom said "I couldn't
agree with you more."
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ARTICLES
- Soybeans make phenomenal
gains
Mere weeks after the experts
were predicting so-so prices for soybeans, they soared from just over
$8 per bushel to a high of $12.50.
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- Beef prices increase in
supermarket
Despite disastrously low
prices at sale barns, beef prices have been increasing in supermarkets
across the country.
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- Competition bureau can't
stop predators
An Alberta MP at the Standing
Committee on Agriculture has accused Cargill and Tyson of buying
60 per cent to 70 per cent of the yearlings available on the market
last fall in western Canada and using them to control and depress the
market for producers.
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- Three farm reps among 37 members to
set up water protection regulations
The Minister of Environment appears bent on
protecting the environment no matter how outrageous the cost to
farmers.
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- Ontario could make criminals of
farmers: Kamenz
To deliver the changes that
would improve the quality of life of Ontarians, the Minister of
Environment, Leona Dombrowsky, has hired 33 new water inspectors.
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- Non-quota farmers plan to
sue DFO
The Farm Products Marketing Tribunal has turned
down an appeal for a class action suit against Dairy Farmers of
Ontario (DFO). The farmers want to be reimbursed for over quota milk
sent to the board.
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- Cream producers try to
restart market
Ontario's 90 or so cream producers are trying to
get back into the market after they were shut out December 8.
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THEY
SAID IT:
"Shoot me."
— Debbie Pretty-Straathoff
says she would prefer it to another rally that farmers don't attend.
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FARM FACTS:
Estimated meat packer profit per head for boxed beef on week ending
February 16.....................$350
Estimated profit per head for same period a year
earlier...............$120
Estimated profit of Canadian meat packing companies
between October 6 and February 15, 2004........$227 million
Estimated amount gross farm income dropped for beef
farmers from 2002 to 2003...........$2.2 billion
Percentage increase in retail prices in beef in
2003.................0.8
Retail price of a kilogram of ground beef in Canada in
April 2003....$5.90
Retail price of a kilogram of ground beef in Canada in
December 2003..............$5.13
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