Sentences with phrase «for grain farmers»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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In doing so, she has taken on the challenges of helping long - time conventional farmers transition, creating a market for their organic grains, and compressing costs of businesses by helping farmers sell directly to processors.

Farmers are tipped to harvest a record winter crop as growers will increase grain production for the first time in nearly a decade.

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community - controlled and biodiversity - based food systems

Rice farmers across Asia work hard to produce rice for Singapore and other countries that depend on rice imports to meet national demand for the grain.

Breeders at the Philippine Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), and the Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR) are developing Golden Rice versions of existing rice varieties that are popular with their local farmers, retaining the same yield, pest resistance, and grain qualities.

To gain the Certified Transitional logo for its new cereal, Kashi worked with Hesco / Dakota Organic Products, a specialty grain company, to identify and work with two farmers interested in transitioning new land from conventional to organic farming practices.

The weakening dollar is offsetting declines in global grain prices on the back of a strong international crop and is a tailwind for Victoria's dairy farmers.

Stock up on produce at farmers» markets; get bulk - size pantry items (beans, legumes, grains) from health food stores and co-ops; and find deals online for fats, oils, nuts, and seeds and ship them to your door.

Supplies for organic grain are at all time low with seasonal difficulties, retiring farmers and water allocations reducing the number of growers in Australia.

«It is important that new and improved rice varieties also possess superior grain quality that add value through meeting domestic and export market expectations to further improve the lives of farmers who rely on rice for their livelihood and sustenance,» he added.

Specifically, the Senate Committee recommended: (1) that the ACCC re-open its informal review of ADM's proposed acquisition of GrainCorp and obtain independent expert advice when conducting that review; (2) that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) consider evidence from the committee's hearings, potential loss of taxpayer revenie, the potential for the takover to «distort the capital market to the detriment of Australian farmers and Australia's economy due to food security concerns» and the need to «protect the public interest and the interests of grain growers» when making its recommendation to the Treasurer.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Additionally, we also aggressively recycle our brewing byproduct — our spent grain and yeast is sent to local dairy farmers for use as animal feed or soil fertilizers and we've invested in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery systems that allow us to capture and reuse CO2 for carbonation and other brewery related processes.

The FFS has now become a model approach for farmer education in Asia and many parts of Africa and Latin America, and has since been used with a wide range of crops including cotton, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, vegetables, small grains and legumes.

Einka ® is Bluebird Grain Farms own brand of einkorn products - our Einka ® einkorn is always organically produced, grown by our team of family farmers in eastern Washington, and 100 % whole grain (never pearled) for maximum nutrient denGrain Farms own brand of einkorn products - our Einka ® einkorn is always organically produced, grown by our team of family farmers in eastern Washington, and 100 % whole grain (never pearled) for maximum nutrient dengrain (never pearled) for maximum nutrient density.

Acme uses only organic flour and works closely with farmers in evaluating and selecting the grain varieties for its flour each year.

«Optimising rice processing is also important for farmers and industry as grain breakage during milling can cause crop value to plummet to as little as one per cent, something parboiling can help to avoid.»

Farmers hardly need them given world demand for food and feed grains.

For rice, barley, and wheat, early farmers got the stems that turn into flowers to branch more, so ultimately more grains were produced per stalk.

A plantation in Ethiopia's Gambela region, owned by a Saudi Arabian billionaire, diverts water from the Alwero River, according to a June 2012 report from GRAIN, a non-profit organization that advocates for small farmers.

Organic rice is increasingly desired by U.S. consumers, but farmers know that growing the grain chemically free can mean providing a feast for insects, diseases and weeds.

In Nigeria, for example, farmers simply hand - toss the product — dead sorghum grain coated with spores of the «good mold» — on their crops a couple weeks before their crops bloom.

Farmers in the Great Plains of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and the panhandle of Texas produce about one - sixth of the world's grain, and water for these crops comes from the High Plains Aquifer — often known as the Ogallala Aquifer — the single greatest source of groundwater in North America.

Quite simply, the first farmers were not very successful at eking out a living from the land, and their grain - heavy diet was deficient in protein and vitamins — critical for fueling growth of the body and brain.

This discovery implies that Britain's hunter - gatherers traded with nearby farmers for the cereal grain long before they adopted agriculture.

«We can see this because the terms of trade for smallscale farmers in Indonesia have not improved since the Green Revolution, which focused so much on increasing yields of a few selected grains.

Turn to bulk bins for your nuts and grains, and if there's a farmers market going on in your neighborhood, challenge yourself to shape a side dish out of the fresh produce you pick up there.

In 2000 Monica Spiller founded the non-profit Whole Grain Connection to promote whole organic grain foods for everyone and particularly to supply farmers with locally appropriate organic wheat Grain Connection to promote whole organic grain foods for everyone and particularly to supply farmers with locally appropriate organic wheat grain foods for everyone and particularly to supply farmers with locally appropriate organic wheat seed.

Increasing demand for these grains in the west has only meant that more farmers are growing them than before in the past decade.

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

Next, Australian cattle farmers are increasingly turning to sprouted grain as a replacement for standard grain feed.

Acme uses only organic flour and works closely with farmers in evaluating and selecting the grain varieties for its flour each year.

This study examines how substituting biofuels for gasoline may increase greenhouse gas emissions as farmers worldwide respond to higher prices and convert forest and grassland to new cropland to replace the grain or cropland diverted to biofuels.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).