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Eastern Canada’s dairy producers are expecting another announcement this month from processing co-operative Agropur about new construction. (Canam-Construction.com)

More milk quota increases expected for Eastern Canada

By John Greig January 11, 2018

Updated, Jan. 15, 2018 –– Dairy Farmers of Ontario expects it will need six per cent more milk from producers in the next year. DFO chair Ralph Dietrich told the organization’s annual meeting that new processing capacity coming online this year will help drive the continued increase in quota allocated to meet the demand. The […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Alberta back in national chicken quota arrangement

By Farmtario Staff November 2, 2017

A new federal-provincial agreement for allocating broiler chicken quota will formally include Alberta Chicken Producers for the first time since 2013. Chicken Farmers of Canada announced Thursday it has a new federal-provincial agreement (FPA) in hand, including a new quota allocation methodology. The new deal was concluded Tuesday, CFC said, when the Farm Products Council […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Argentine corn sowing booms on optimism over new government

By Hugh Bronstein, Maximiliano Rizzi January 9, 2016

Buenos Aires | Reuters — A late-season corn planting flurry in No. 4 world exporter Argentina could push output to the same level as the previous crop year, thanks to the policies of the new government, the director of the local maize industry chamber said Friday. Growers across the Pampas farm belt applauded the November […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

EU farmers fear ‘roller coaster’ as milk market deregulated

By Conor Humphries March 6, 2015

Belview Port, Ireland | Reuters –– Billions of euros and thousands of jobs will flow from the historic deregulation of Europe’s dairy sector, a string of Irish ministers promised at the opening this week of a vast new plant to make dried milk for developing markets. But elsewhere in the European Union, many farmers are […] Read more

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More milk quota increases expected for Eastern Canada

Alberta back in national chicken quota arrangement

Argentine corn sowing booms on optimism over new government

EU farmers fear ‘roller coaster’ as milk market deregulated

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