Breeding not beef
Fall Fertility
A 4-H beef club emphasizes herd building » PG 13
Recent rains are easing the fall fertility crunch » PG 18
SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | Vol. 75, No. 39 | $1.75
September 28, 2017
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Second incidence of waterhemp found in Manitoba
CETA takes effect as ag frets details
The weed is often herbicide resistant, making the appearance especially concerning
Significant barriers remain to any real progress in accessing the European market for food products BY ALEX BINKLEY
BY ALLAN DAWSON
Co-operator contributor
Co-operator staff
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anitoba appears to have a brewing problem with the noxious weed waterhemp. A second case has been spotted in Manitoba recently, caus-
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ith a flurry of press releases and a ceremony at the Port of Montreal, a new chapter in Canada’s economic history has begun to unfold as Canada’s trade deal with Europe came into effect. The Canada-Europe Trade Agreement (CETA) took provisional effect Sept. 21, even as the third round of the NAFTA renegotiations kicked off in Ottawa. While the agriculture sector welcomed the news, industry representatives also expressed reservations about the pace of efforts to now clear non-tariff barriers and other unfinished segments. Brian Innes, president of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance urged Ottawa to press ahead on unresolved issues with the EU. Innes cited the slow progress the EU is making to allow real, commercially viable access to the EU for agri-food exporters. This includes progress on meat-processing protocols, crop protection products, country-of-origin labelling and the timely approval of biotechnology traits. “Our growing export-oriented agri-food sector relies on access to markets,” he said. There is also apprehensions about recent protectionist initiatives in Europe such as Italy’s country-of-origin labelling of Canadian pasta provisions. “These measures
Demonstrators pull a wooden model of the Trojan Horse during a protest against the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) in front of the Parliament in Vienna, Austria on the eve of the deal coming into provisional effect. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
are not in the spirit of CETA and threaten to fragment the common EU market. Still the potential for Canada making greater trade inroads in EU markets is huge, Innes said. It is the fourth-largest export destination for Canadian agri-food
products and when fully implemented, the deal will eliminate EU tariffs on almost 94 per cent of Canada’s agri-food products. See CETA on page 6 »
TEAM CANADA: A YOUNG FARMER REFLECTS ON HER EXPERIENCE IN CHINA » PAGE 18
IS YO U R FARM WO RKIN G AS HARD AS YO U DO? FAR M MANAG E M E NT. DATA MANAG E M E NT. VA R I A B L E R AT E T E C H N O LO G Y. S U P P O R T. The results are clear with average yield increases* of: 10.8% in canola / 5.9% in wheat / 6.4% in barley. See the whole picture at echelonag.ca Available exclusively from CPS. BRING IT ON.
09/17-56406 *Results from 2016 data collected from 515,028 acres of canola, 379,336 acres of wheat and 88,360 of barley across a total of 4,227 fields in Western Canada. Echelon is a registered trademark of Crop Production Services (Canada) Inc. CPS CROP PRODUCTION SERVICES and Design is a registered trademark of Crop Production Services, Inc.
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