Sentences with phrase «many grain farmers»

Amendments likely to survive are related to the shipping of agriculture products, which grain farmers are supporting.

Some business groups, particularly those representing grain farmers and shippers, have called for an expedited passage of C - 49.

But for grain farmers and grain elevator operators in states like Minnesota and the Dakotas, it's a near disastrous crisis that could continue to cost them tens of millions of dollars.

Rick and 12 other farmers arrested received a pardon from Prime Minister Stephen Harper on August 1, 2012, when the federal government's Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act came into effect, which allowed producers to opt out of the Canadian Wheat Board and sell wheat on the open market.

It took years for the French court to come to this final ruling on a lawsuit between a grain farmer and business giant Monsanto.

Ask a Canadian grain farmer what he thinks about it.

In 2014, government passed the Fair Grain Farmers Act, which gives farmers increased access to rail capacity.

Since our previous Client Alert: New Marketing Freedom For Grain Farmers, a judge of the Federal Court ruled on December 6, 2011, that the Minister of Agriculture had acted in breach of the Canadian Wheat Board Act.

While there are good reasons to modify the open licenses used by those grain farmers to take account of the unique circumstances of the cheese, the underlying policy objectives should be the same: open access to support innovation and the public interest.

Administrative law: CP Rail is challenging Ottawa's Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act, which gives grain farmers and other railway clients the right to «interswitch» their goods between rail lines within 160 kilometres at a prescribed rate.

Not exact matches

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.

It's also benefited the farmers,» says Al Constantini of C.B. Constantini Ltd., an independent grain trader based in Vancouver.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

As farmers sold off their stockpiles of grain and cotton, they also brought their livestock to market en masse, he says, leaving the lowest head count of cattle in the U.S. since 1950.

In order to protect the estimated 15,000 supply - managed farmers in Canada (including milk, poultry and egg farmers), Findlay estimates that the economic prospects of more than ten times that many farmers — who very much want to export beef, pork and grain to the world — could be quashed.

With no sign of grain and oilseed prices falling, farmers have an embarrassment of choices to make in the coming years over what crops to grow.

We've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially high prices; b) food processors (and the jobs they could be creating in Canada) because of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because of supply management; d) the majority of Canadian farmers (over 90 per cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international growth opportunities.

Following a season of higher - than - expected grain production in the Prairies, farmers are now faced with the most severe backlog in years, with many deliveries for wheat, oats, barley and other products lagging months behind schedule.

The letter is a rebuttal against a push by Canadian grain shippers and farmers, who have called on Ottawa in recent weeks to issue an order - in - council to ease a persistent bottleneck in rail deliveries.

It said preliminary results of a trade inquiry had found that U.S. sorghum, a grain used as animal feed and in liquor distilling, was sold at improperly low prices that hurt Chinese farmers.

While Canada's railways grapple with operational issues and a grain backlog that has infuriated many farmers, one analyst has upgraded CP's target price.

The strong growth of canola production results from farmers substituting away from growing other coarse grains in response to the higher returns on canola.

The U.S. economy is a corn - based ethanol producer and this has helped put upward pressure on global grain prices which has benefited Brazil's farmers.

Prairie farmers were notoriously distrustful of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and of commodity traders in general.

Canadian oil producers have struggled to find sufficient rail cars to move their barrels since TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline spilled in South Dakota last year and have turned to securing railway cars to move their barrels, a situation which has exacerbated problems for farmers moving their grain off the prairies.

Established by Quaker merchants in the 1730s, Wilmington was a milling and grain - shipping center for farmers in Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania.

From the beginnings of civilization, farmers have been intervening in the course of evolution by producing hybrid grains, and stock breeders have been domesticating animals that live longer or work harder or run faster.

These corporate middlemen have as much power over the small farmers of America as they do over sovereign nations in the market to purchase grain.

The five top corporations are presently involved in class - action suits brought by wheat farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who accuse them of rigging grain prices.

The farmer takes a sheaf of grain, his harvest, And lifts it up in gratitude to God.

Our stations are known God the farmer knows a kernel of corn for sweet corn or alcohol depending on the need or wheat grain for bread or wallpaper paste.

If farmers don't grow crops, if mills don't grind grain, if truckers don't bring it to us, if bakers don't make it into bread, if stores don't stock it fresh and sell it cheap — then I don't eat.

The company started in 1922 when eight farmers pooled together to purchased a railcar full of grain to feed their livestock.

«The organic industry is growing and with lower commodity grain prices, and farmers are looking to add value and meet consumer demands,» he told Civil Eats.

In fact, a preference for white wheat products in Asia has contributed to a decline in the export of U.S. red wheat to this rapidly growing region of the world.5 Since farmers can switch fairly readily to white wheat, the forces of supply and demand should ensure that there is enough white wheat to make popular whole grain products.

Peggy is also currently working with the Alabama Agriculture Commissioner and the Agriculture Department at Alabama's Auburn University to create an organic farmer's co-op, in an effort to encourage local farmers to plant and harvest organic grains that To Your Health can use.

More interestingly, many of these mills contract with farmers so they can track the varieties of grain as well as the farmer's results.

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More than 500 organic operations, from organic fruit and vegetable growers, grains and oilseed farmers, livestock and poultry producers, dairy farmers, organic processors, and food makers across 45 states, participated in a comprehensive farm bill survey conducted by the Organic Trade Association.

Prins, U. and Wit, J. de (2006) Intercropping cereals and grain legumes: a farmer's perspective.

«We have long been developing relationships with farmers who grow grain to the exacting standards of our customers and our third - party certifying body; these men and women are the foundation of our quality,» the company says.

Once we find wheat with these characteristics, we work directly with local organic family farmers to grow the grain in a manner that is advantageous to the environment.»

Previously, the spent grain that is left over after being boiled to make beer was sold to dairy farmers to feed their cows.

Not only do the farms raise pigs in a natural way in open pens, but also the farmers feed them grain they farm themselves, which allows for higher - quality, well - monitored feed free of animal byproducts that might contaminate the pigs.

By connecting the bakers» demand for quality flours with the farmers» desire to grow breeds of grains with unique flavors, Baker's Field Flour & Bread is producing delicious flour.

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GRAIN researcher Ms Kartini Samon said that GM crops, and the enforcement of patent rights, leads to the criminalization of farmers» culture of saving, sharing and improving seeds.

Victorian grain grower Ross Johns said some farmers would consider storing and holding part of the crop.

Arable farmers are urging dairy farmers to ease up on feeding their cattle imported palm kernel expeller (PKE) in favour of New Zealand - grown grains.

«You know, I was really enjoying myself sprouting grains in Mason jars and selling my breads at farmers markets,» she said.